From TheSmartSet.com:
Nothing moved on the side of the mountain. Nothing except us, as we quietly scanned the wide expanse of snow in the open valley below us, and the forested peaks of the mountains rising on the opposite side. It had been an early start, drinking espressos in the bar of the rustically charming Hotel Iris, before hitting the road at 4:30 am. The journey from the resort town of Pescasseroli had been silent and sleepy, with no other lights except ours as the 4×4 climbed around dark, curving hairpin bends, with snow banked up either side of the road. At one point, our guide, Valeria, slowed the car and quietly called “Wolf, wolf!”
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Coexistence and Conflict with North America’s Grey Wolf
From Earth.org:
Wolves are a species indigenous to North America. They have lived in the region since the Pleistocene and are believed to have crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia. Before the arrival of Europeans in New England, North American indigenous peoples lived in harmony with wolves; some had even built a relationship with them. To this day, American Indian tribes fight to protect and preserve wolves through advocacy and restoration efforts.
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Family of wolves spotted living in lemon orchard in Israel’s Negev desert
From Ynetnews.com:
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) routinely monitor wolf populations in the western part of the Negev desert, but what they found this week was unusually delightful. Nestled between the trees of a lemon orchard, there lives a family of wolves — a father, a mother and seven little ones.
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Belgium: Wolf cub killed in road accident in Flanders
From The Brussels Times:
A seven-month-old wolf cub was killed in a road accident on Sunday morning in the province of Limburg, in Flanders. The cub is believed to have been part of the ‘Limburg wolf pack‘, one of two wolf packs known to be present on Belgium soil.
The cub’s death has angered many Flemish animal conservationists, who argue that the local government has not done enough to protect the area’s wildlife.
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‘A remarkable sign’: flurry of wolf births offers hope for California comeback
From The Guardian:
In a year of environmental ups and downs, a hopeful story of recovery is afoot in California. A grey wolf pack gave birth to eight pups this spring, it was recently confirmed, offering signs of a remarkable comeback after wolves were wiped out in the state more than a century ago.
The births in the Whaleback wolf pack, based in northern California’s Siskiyou county, happened in the spring but were only confirmed by California’s department of fish and wildlife in November. They may be a sign that wolves who entered the state from Oregon several years ago are thriving.
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How the U.S. and Mexico have teamed up on Mexican gray wolf recovery efforts
From Texas Standard:
For over four decades, the U.S. and Mexican governments have worked to recover the population of endangered Mexican gray wolves. Thousands of these wolves once roamed from the southwestern U.S. all the way down to southern Mexico – but by the 1970s, only a handful remained in the wild.
A binational recovery strategy was created by U.S. and Mexican agencies in 2017 and renewed earlier this year. Last month, a pair of adult wolves was transferred from New Mexico to Chihuahua, Mexico.
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Colorado to release up to 50 wolves on the Western Slope, draft plan says
From The Denver Post:
Colorado wildlife officials plan to capture between 30 and 50 gray wolves from other states in the northern Rocky Mountain region over the next three to five years and release them into the state’s Western Slope forests, according to a draft plan published Friday.
Those wolves are meant to act as a seed that will hopefully grow into a self-sustaining population, restoring the species to at least a fraction of its former glory after it was hunted to extinction in Colorado a century ago.
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Swiss parliament gives greenlight to wolf culling
From SwissInfo.ch:
On Thursday, the House of Representatives followed the Senate and backed an amendment to the hunting law which allows cantons to proactively regulate the wolf population between September 1-December 31. The government also backs the proposal.
Switzerland is home to an estimated 200 wolves, mainly in the Alps. A rise in attacks on livestock has prompted calls for the wolf population to be limited.
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Dutch court: No using paintball guns on wolves
From The Columbian:
THE HAGUE — A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a plan to control the country’s growing wolf population by shooting at the animals with paintball guns to scare them away from people.
A local court ruled that officials had not justified their decision to use the novel approach as a safe way to teach the wolves to stay out of populated areas. It said regional authorities had not done enough research into other possible solutions.
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Tracking wolves in the wild heart of Italy
From TheSmartSet.com:
Nothing moved on the side of the mountain. Nothing except us, as we quietly scanned the wide expanse of snow in the open valley below us, and the forested peaks of the mountains rising on the opposite side. It had been an early start, drinking espressos in the bar of the rustically charming Hotel Iris, before hitting the road at 4:30 am. The journey from the resort town of Pescasseroli had been silent and sleepy, with no other lights except ours as the 4×4 climbed around dark, curving hairpin bends, with snow banked up either side of the road. At one point, our guide, Valeria, slowed the car and quietly called “Wolf, wolf!”
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Judge rules against suspending Montana wolf hunts while lawsuit proceeds
From MontanaFreePress.org:
A Helena judge reinstated the 2022-2023 wolf hunting and trapping regulations passed by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission Tuesday in a ruling that rejected environmental groups’ request for an order halting wolf hunting and trapping while the larger issue of Montana’s wolf management is weighed by courts.
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