From The Standard:
After wolves swooped from the forest and savaged her lambs, sheep farmer Renate Pilz feels like giving up. Others, to the anger of conservationists, are reaching for their rifles.
“I lost two ewes and two lambs” to the wolf attack last year, the 55-year-old said at her farm in the village of Arbesbach.
She pulled out photos of her animals, bleeding and so badly bitten that they had to be put down.
“It’s too much work, it’s no longer profitable and, above all, I don’t want to do it any more,” she said.
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30 new pups double California’s wolf population: report
From Fox5 San Diego:
Five California wolf families produced pups this year, which doubled the state’s wolf population in the past year, a report recently published by the California Department of Fish and Game said.
These 30 new pups bring the total number of known wolves in the Golden State to 62, the report said.
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Commission’s ag reps clarify livestock handling, applaud wolf impacted producers
From The Fence Post:
Delia Malone, wildlife chair of the Colorado Sierra Club, Dallas Gudgel, wildlife and Tribal policy director for International Wildlife Coexistence Network, and Dr. Adrian Treves, director of the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the University of Wisconsin appeared before the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission on Aug. 23.
Malone asked the commission to ensure that the state require that livestock producers exhaust proactive, appropriate, and properly implemented non-lethal coexistence methods that are based on best available science to reduce and minimize conflict between livestock producers and gray wolves prior to any issuance of a permit to kill a wolf. This is already clarified in the state Wolf Plan.
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Lessons From 40 Years Among Wolves
From Psychology Today:
My research interests for decades have focused on the behavior and social ecology of wild carnivores with a focus on coyotes. I also have been, and remain deeply interested in, the social behavior and behavioral ecology of wild wolves.1 So, when I learned about Dr. Diane Boyd’s new book called A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery, I couldn’t wait to get my eyes on it. I’ve known of Diane’s long-term research for many years, and I remain fascinated by what she was able to do, often against all odds, Often called “the Jane Goodall of wolves,” a well-deserved monicker, I couldn’t agree more with the accolades her book has received—it truly is a story of passion, resilience, and determination in a career dominated by men. Here’s what she has to say about her landmark and deeply inspirational book.
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Draft bill allows running over wolves with snowmobiles, but requires ‘immediate’ kill
From Yahoo! News:
CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Predators Working Group unanimously supported a draft bill Wednesday that would continue to allow residents to intentionally run over predatory animals with snowmobiles, but require those who do so to kill the animal immediately.
The bill draft was one of two discussed during its latest meeting at the state Capitol. Bill draft 140, “Animal abuse-predatory animals,” classifies intentionally running over predatory animals without using “all reasonable efforts” to kill it immediately as animal abuse.
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The first annual gray wolf report was released by CPW
From KJCT News:
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) – The gray wolves in Colorado have been thoroughly looked at and reported on.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife released its first annual report on gray wolves. This report documents the status of gray wolves, wolf management, wolf monitoring, research related to wolves, education and outreach.
The report is for the biological year April 1, 2023- March 31, 2024. Any events that have happened since March 31 will be included in next year’s annual report according to CPW.
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Leaders meet to discuss wolf issue
From WAOW.com:
ROTHSCHILD, Wis. — (WAOW) You probably can’t go anywhere in Wisconsin without running into someone who has an opinion about the state’s wolf population. State and federal lawmakers, along with candidates for office, shared their ideas about how the issue can be solved.
At a roundtable discussion at Schuette Metals, Congressman Tom Tiffany, U.S. Senate Candidate Eric Hovde, and several republican members of the state legislature, met to discuss how wolf attacks are impacting their constituents, and called for more action.
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Swelling wolf population creates culling controversy
From The Standard:
After wolves swooped from the forest and savaged her lambs, sheep farmer Renate Pilz feels like giving up. Others, to the anger of conservationists, are reaching for their rifles.
“I lost two ewes and two lambs” to the wolf attack last year, the 55-year-old said at her farm in the village of Arbesbach.
She pulled out photos of her animals, bleeding and so badly bitten that they had to be put down.
“It’s too much work, it’s no longer profitable and, above all, I don’t want to do it any more,” she said.
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The child-killing wolves sparking panic in India
From BBC:
Four-year-old Sandhya was sleeping outside her mud hut in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on the night of 17 August when a power cut plunged the village into darkness.
“The wolves attacked within two minutes of the lights going out. By the time we realised what was happening, they had taken her away,” recalls her mother, Sunita.
Sandhya’s body was found lying next day in the sugarcane farms, some 500 metres from her home.
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Surge in Wolf Attacks in Uttar Pradesh Sparks Debate: Are Wolves Truly Aggressive?
From News24Online:
After a sudden surge in wolf’ attacks in Uttar Pradesh was noticed, the question that popped up was whether the wolf is an aggressive animal. People in general want to know under what circumstances wolves attack humans and what can be done to prevent such attacks.
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‘Amazing’: Endangered Calif. animal makes stunning comeback according to new data
From SFGate.com:
In 1924, the last gray wolf in California was shot. For the next 87 years, the native species completely vanished from the state. But now, a century after the fatal shot was fired, seven packs of gray wolves roam the state, and their population growth shows no signs of stopping.
This spring, 30 new wolf pups were born across California’s wolf packs, according to Axel Hunnicutt, the state gray wolf coordinator for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He said that was the biggest increase in California wolves in a century.
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