From Mongabay.com:
In May 2025, five counties in northern California — mostly rural farm and ranch land — declared an unprecedented state of emergency. It wasn’t a natural disaster or civil unrest that led to panic, but rather a bunch of thriving canids — wolves, to be precise. They’d killed livestock, and according to some residents, were exhibiting “bold, abnormal behavior” and “coming too close to homes.”
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Deer’s Daring Escape From Wolves on Mount Parnitha [Greece]
From Tovima.com:
Adramatic wildlife encounter just outside Athens has reignited a national conversation about the return of wolves to Mount Parnitha. A video filmed near Lake Beletsi shows a deer leaping into the water to escape a pursuing pack — a rare and cinematic moment in Greece’s natural world.
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FWP [Montana] is in the wolf management hot seat
From MontanaFreePress.com:
Two weeks after the Outdoor Heritage Coalition and a pair of Republican lawmakers sued the state for doing too little to reduce Montana’s wolf population, a coalition of conservation groups on Wednesday made the opposite argument before a different judge.
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife halts search for depredating Copper Creek wolf as more livestock attacks are confirmed in Rio Blanco
From SteamboatPilot.com:
After months of reported wolf activity and seven confirmed wolf attacks on livestock in Pitkin County, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has not verified any depredations in the county since mid-August, causing the agency to change course on attempts to euthanize a responsible Copper Creek wolf.
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As wolves roam California, livestock losses remain low, yet ranchers’ fears grow
From Mongabay.com:
In May 2025, five counties in northern California — mostly rural farm and ranch land — declared an unprecedented state of emergency. It wasn’t a natural disaster or civil unrest that led to panic, but rather a bunch of thriving canids — wolves, to be precise. They’d killed livestock, and according to some residents, were exhibiting “bold, abnormal behavior” and “coming too close to homes.”
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The wolf is not the problem – it is the solution [Switzerland]
From WildBeimWild:
How reintroduced wolves are healing our forests – and why the FOEN and cantonal hunting authorities are standing in the way.
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The ecology of fear in the Anthropocene has a new plot twist
From AnthropoceneMagazine:
The big bad wolf is really a scaredy cat.
While wolves’ reputation as fearsome predators makes them the stuff of old legends and modern polemics, at least one animal will prompt them to turn tail: humans. That insight from new research runs counter to speculation that wolves protected by conservation laws might become emboldened and attack people unprovoked.
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The most ancient Indian wolf is set to be a new species
From TheHindu.com:
The discreet, charismatic denizen of scrubland and grasslands, the Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), whose population has dwindled to just around 3,000 individuals in India and Pakistan, is likely to be classified as a new species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which would take the number of wolf species in the world to eight.
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”Wolf tourists” fined for feeding cubs in [Netherlands] restricted zone
From DutchNews.nl:
Dozens of fines have been handed out to “wolf tourists” since forest rangers zoned off an area of the Hoge Veluwe national park where wolves feed their cubs.
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Uncollared wolf suspected in Rio Blanco [Colorado] ewe killings, CPW investigating
From 9News.com:
RIO BLANCO COUNTY, Colo. — A wolf killed two ewes within the past week in Rio Blanco County, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife believes uncollared wolf was responsible.
“It is believed these depredations are connected to an uncollared wolf, based on an unconfirmed visual sighting of an uncollared canid and unconfirmed reports of a howl the night of Oct. 9, as well as a lack of GPS collar data in the area,” CPW spokesperson Luke Perkins told 9NEWS.
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Court blocks efforts to remove wolf in Northeast Washington
From Spokesman.com:
The state’s plans to kill a wolf in northeast Washington are off after a court sided with environmentalists seeking to block the action.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Tuesday evening that a King County Superior Court commissioner had granted a temporary restraining order blocking the agency’s efforts to kill a wolf from the Sherman Pack in Ferry County.
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