From SacBee.com:
California’s wolf population was about 10% higher at the end of 2025 than the year before, despite the deaths of at least 12 animals, including four that were euthanized after attacking livestock, underscoring the state’s growing difficulties in managing protected predators.
There were 55 wolves in California by last December, up from 50 the year before, but down significantly from the previous estimate of 60 to 70 wolves in nine packs across the Sierra Nevada and other regions, according to a report released Thursday by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. But the number of successful breeding pairs — defined as mates that produced at least two pups that survived an entire year — declined from five to three, the report shows.
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California wolf numbers rose in 2025, wildlife officials say, but breeding pairs fell
From SacBee.com:
California’s wolf population was about 10% higher at the end of 2025 than the year before, despite the deaths of at least 12 animals, including four that were euthanized after attacking livestock, underscoring the state’s growing difficulties in managing protected predators.
There were 55 wolves in California by last December, up from 50 the year before, but down significantly from the previous estimate of 60 to 70 wolves in nine packs across the Sierra Nevada and other regions, according to a report released Thursday by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. But the number of successful breeding pairs — defined as mates that produced at least two pups that survived an entire year — declined from five to three, the report shows.
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Wild Cam: Cougars, wolves take down horses in Canada
From Wildlife.org:
It was the winter of 2022, and hounds were already on the trail of a cougar fresh off a recent kill in the remote wilderness of northern British Columbia. Just a day earlier, Shane White’s colleague was conducting wolf surveys by helicopter when she spotted the cat.
The cougar (Puma concolor) took off into the nearby timber as the chopper approached. But knowing that White was about to begin a project trapping cougars in the area to fit them with GPS tracking collars, the colleague immediately notified him.
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Wyoming cuts wolf hunt in half to buoy Yellowstone region’s disease-depleted population
From Wyofile.com:
Wyoming wildlife managers plan to reduce how many wolves can be hunted by 50% following a canine distemper outbreak that has cut the state’s wolf numbers to the lowest level in two decades.
A 22-wolf cap is the fewest number of wolves available to licensed Wyoming hunters since the state began allowing wolf hunting after Endangered Species Act protections were lifted in 2012. The limit also marks a significant decrease from last fall’s wolf hunting season.
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Fourteen [Spainsh] communities prepare lawsuits against the Government for failing to comply with the regulations on wolves
From Democrata.us:
Castilla y León has communicated this Thursday that, together with thirteen other autonomous communities, it will undertake legal actions against the Government after the deadline for the Ministry for Ecological Transition to send the six-year reports on the conservation status of various species of community interest, including the Iberian wolf, to the European Commission expired in July 2025.
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“As if I’m in the real Yellowstone.” These epic, secret mountains are teeming with predators
From DiscoverWildlife.com:
Deep within Romania’s Făgăraș Mountains, a vast, untouched forest of ancient woodland teems with wildlife. Could this be the Yellowstone of Europe?
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[Minnesota] DNR using faulty science on wolf management
From Timberjay.com:
Minnesota’s wolf management is headed toward a predetermined destination — zero wolf harvest — and the DNR is using two flawed scientific pillars to get there. The first is the Adams et al. 2008 model, which the DNR uses to set a 28-29 percent human-caused mortality ceiling.
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Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand: ‘We cannot make them fast enough’
From The-Independent.com:
A Japanese manufacturer of animatronic wolves designed to scare off wild animals is being swamped with orders as the East Asian country grapples with rising bear attacks.
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Indian and Tibetan wolves found to have important, ancient genetics
From News.Rice.edu:
Wolves in India, like the pack that raised Mowgli in “The Jungle Book,” can often feel disconnected from both the research and storytelling of wolves.
Rice University professor Lauren Hennelly is working to change that. Her research uncovers the stories that these grey wolves, along with the nearby Tibetan wolves, carry in their DNA.
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[Washington] Monthly wolf report – April 2026
From WDFW.WA.gov:
This update provides an overview of gray wolf conservation and management activities in Washington during April 2026.
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Five critically endangered Red Wolf pups born at the NC Museum of Life and Science
From CBS17.com:
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — A museum in Durham that has maintained efforts to conserve the Red Wolf species delivered some good news to wildlife lovers, five pieces of good news to be exact.
The Museum of Life and Sciences announced Tuesday that their seven-year-old Red Wolf gave birth on May 5 to five pups, three boys and two girls.
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