From the Baker City Herald: Oregon State Police are investigating the unlawful killing of the breeding male wolf from the Cornucopia pack in eastern Baker County. The wolf died from a gunshot wound on or about Sept. 24, according to OSP. This incident occurred northwest of New Bridge in the Skull Creek drainage of the […]
JACKSON — Federal wildlife conflict specialists say they will no longer kill wolves in Wyoming that have not already been implicated in preying on livestock. In addition to ending “preventative” killing, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services is instating a population-dependent cap on the overall number of Wyoming wolves that can be killed in […]
Farmers, ranchers, hunters and wildlife advocates filled a Brainerd auditorium Tuesday night to give passionate testimony for and against a proposal to remove federal protections for gray wolves. The hearing was the only opportunity, anywhere in the country, for members of the public to give input in person on the proposal by the U.S. Fish […]
An Article by Patricia B. McConnell, PhD, CAAB Emeritus. Bits is a hybrid wolfdog. Or maybe some coyote, no one knows. He is drop-dead gorgeous and is flat out terrified of strangers. He has been living with Jayne and Mike Belskey at the Grey Wolf Central Wisconsin Rescue for two years now, having been rescued […]
Parks Canada collared a Bow Valley yearling female wolf on May 27 after concerns she was in danger of becoming food conditioned. Jesse Whittington, a wildlife biologist with Banff National Park said the young gray coloured wolf had to be collared after they noticed she was acting indifferent towards people. “Earlier in the spring we […]
Wolves are officially back in the Netherlands, two centuries after the animals were hunted to extinction in the country, after a pair produced a litter in the wild — news welcomed Thursday by conservationists. The province of Gelderland posted a video online this week showing three young wolves in a forest clearing, though the province said in […]
17,000 pairs of big eyes. 17,000 pairs of big ears. 17,000 sets of big teeth. With thousands of wolves now roaming continental Europe, Little Red Riding Hood better watch out. After years of persecution and hunting, the European wolf population is on the rise. Packs have been roaming the Carpathian and Balkan regions, in countries including […]
Scientists are investigating whether a giant, 40,000-year-old wolf’s head found perfectly preserved beneath Siberian permafrost could have been chopped off by hunters. The severed head was found above the Arctic Circle by local man Pavel Efimov a year ago but was only announced by researchers studying the Ice Age mammal last week. They are now […]
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