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Wolf News - April 2020
WOLF, PIER AND OTHER PROJECTS IN JEOPARDY WITHOUT BILL
April 28th: The Voyageurs National Park Wolf Project is in jeopardy should the Minnesota Senate follow through with the idea it will not pursue a bill allocating money from the state's Environment and Natural Resource Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative Citizens Commission on Minnesota Resources.
MORE AND MORE WOLVES ARE SPOTTED IN BELGIUM
April 26th: More and more wolves have been spotted in Belgium in recent months, both in the northern and southern parts of the country, according to environmental organizations.
WOLF POPULATION STABILIZES NEAR STATE'S SWEET SPOT
April 22nd: Problems with wolves and killing of wolves are down in past two years, biologist says.
GROUPS REQUEST FEDERAL PROTECTION FOR SOUTHEAST WOLF POPULATION
April 22nd: Conservationists have asked the federal government to provide better protection for a wolf population in Southeast Alaska.
WASHINGTON'S POPULATION OF WOLVES GREW 11% ON 2019, STATE REPORT FINDS
April 21st: The wolf population in Washington state increased by at least 19 animals in 2019, despite multiple lethal removals due to wolf-livestock conflict.
April 20th: Conservationists are asking the federal government to better protect a wolf population in Southeast Alaska.
YELLOWSTONE'S WOLVES 25 YEARS AFTER REINTRODUCTION: THE EFFECTS ON RANCHERS
April 20th: March marked the 25th anniversary of wolf reintroduction. After a quarter-century, there are factual answers to lingering concerns, questions and fears.
April 16th: Riley the wolf has died. She lived in the wild until almost the age of 11, which biologists call a remarkable feat. Wolves are lucky to live to 6.
TIME FOR THE TO END IDAHO'S WOLF SLAUGHTER IN WILDERNESS
April 16th: It’s time for the U.S. Forest Service to put a stop to the state of Idaho’s relentless quest to kill as many wolves as it can on our public lands in Idaho, including in Wildernesses.
April 15th: Conservation groups today called on the U.S. Forest Service to take immediate steps to protect Alexander Archipelago wolves on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest following word that 97 percent of the most recent estimated population was killed this past trapping season.
FEDS LOOK TO NEXT CHAPTER FOR CONTROVERSIAL GRAY WOLVES
After nearing extinction, a controversial reintroduction to the wild and a string of shootings, controversies and lawsuits, the Mexican gray wolf awaits the next chapter of it's story.
OREGON'S WOLF POPULATION GROWS TO 22 PACKS, 158 ANIMALS
April 15th: Oregon’s wolf population increased by 21 confirmed animals from 137 to 158 wolves in 2019, according to a report released today by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. As the new report shows, livestock-wolf conflicts have decreased substantially this year from the year before, from 28 confirmed in 2018 to only 16 confirmed in 2019, even though wolf numbers are up and the animals are occupying new habitat, said Amaroq Weiss, a West Coast wolf advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.
FAMOUS SOUTHERN OREGON WOLF OR-7 PRESUMED DEAD
April 15th: Gray wolf OR-7, the patriarch of the Rogue Pack and perhaps the most famous in the world this past decade — was not documented during the winter count conducted by state and federal biologists, though his mate was present with three other wolves, according to Oregon’s newly released wolf report for 2019.
KEEPING COMPANY WITH THE WOLVES
April 15th: Throughout the United States, communities are seeing residents go outside and howl at 8 p.m. on a nightly basis. It seems to originate from a Facebook group named "Go Outside and Howl at 8 p.m." which was started on March 27 and has 498,027 members. "The wildness of it provides a release, an audible 'spitting in the face' of adversity, if you will,"
U.S. WILDLIFE MANAGERS TO UPDATE ENDANGERED MEXICAN WOLF RULE
April 14th: U.S. wildlife officials will be looking for public comment as they prepare to update a rule that guides management of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest.
FEDS BEGIN COURT-ORDERED REWRITE OF MEXICAN WOLF RULE FOR NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA
April 14th: Comment Period Opens on Rules for Releasing, Killing Endangered Animals
AMERICANS AGREE ON ANIMAL PROTECTION; EXPERTS DISAGREE ON WHICH ONES NEED IT
April 13th, Michigan: The American public can agree on one thing; Endangered species deserve protection—and more than they get now. Gray wolves are the posterchild for the debate over what counts as an endangered species.
A DANGEROUS ROAD: COASTAL GASLINK PAYS TO KILL WOLVES IN ENDANGERED CARIBOU HABITAT IN B.C. INTERIOR
April 13th: Construction of a pipeline, which will supply fracked gas from northeast B.C.,will remove or disturb 2,750 hectares of habitat for the Hart Ranges caribou herd, eliminating old-growth forest the government had set aside for the herd’s recovery. The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development proposed that more than more than 80 per cent of wolves had to be exterminated to reverse steep caribou declines.
THE CARNAGE OF WOLF TRAPPING IN IDAHO
April 13th: A new public records request to Idaho Department of Fish and Game reveals that Idaho wolf trappers are capturing nearly as many non-target species as they are capturing wolves. Of the non-target species captured, 57% of those were killed.
PROTECT OUR WILDLIFE TO CO-HOST COYOTE WEBINAR
April 11th, Vermont: Protect Our Wildlife invites the public to join Chris Schadler, Co-Founder of the New Hampshire Wildlife Coalition , and local Project Coyote representative, for a free coyote webinar to be held on Thursday April 16th at 6:30PM. The public can register at: bit.ly/coyotetalk Questions may be asked via the “chat” function on Zoom or attendees can submit their questions ahead of time to: info@protectourwildlifevt.org.
$37,000 REWARD FOR INFORMATION IN DEATHS OF 2 MEXICAN GRAY WOLVES
April 10th, Arizona: The bodies of the wolves were found near Pinetop, Arizona on March 22 and 23. Law enforcement officers are actively working with the Arizona Game and Fish Department to conduct a comprehensive investigation into these suspicious deaths.
FWS ORDERS FOUR LOBOS KILLED DURING LOBO WEEK
April 8th: Following on the heels of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) recent news of a record annual increase in the wild population of endangered Mexican gray wolves, the agency issued kill orders which created a deadly month in lobo management.
ACTIVISTS, RANCHERS BATTLE OVER FEDERAL WOLF KILLS
April 8th: Last month’s killing of four Mexican gray wolves in southwestern New Mexico by federal agencies has prompted outcries from wildlife groups.
CATTLE CONFLICTS PROMPT KILLING OF ENDANGERED MEXICAN WOLVES
April 8th: The killing of four Mexican gray wolves by U.S. wildlife officials has drawn the ire of environmentalists who say management of the species is undercutting efforts to restore the endangered predators to the American Southwest.
WILDERNESS WOLF GUNNING INQUIRY SHOT DOWN
April 8th: Efforts to go after ‘predator zone’ wolves in the Bridger Wilderness went nowhere.
THE MEXICAN GRAY WOLF: FRIEND OR FOE
April 8th: "Little Red Riding Hood", the fairytale, symbolizes man's intense fear and hatred for the gray wolf. Are they really blood thirsty killers?
CALIFORNIA COURT APPROVES BAN ON FEDERAL WILDLIFE POISONING, TRAPPING
April 7th: The agreement, approved by a San Francisco federal court, directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services to analyze the environmental impacts of its killing of coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions and other wildlife in California’s “Sacramento District.” Also, the federal program must restrict its use of bird-killing poisons in Northern California and stop setting strangulation snares and other traps in places like the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex.
GENETIC RESEARCHERS PINPOINT ORIGIN OF YELLOWSTONE’S BLACK WOLVES
April 6th: Scientists say historically wolves did not have black coats. Cutting-edge science is now revealing the secret behind the origin of the black wolf.
A CLOSER LOOK AT BLACK WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
April 6th:Scientists say historically, wolves did not have black coats
FIRST CONFIRMED SIGHTING OF A WOLF ON ZUID VELUWE
April 4rd: A wolf was spotted on the Zuid Veluwe for the first time, nature conservation service Natuurmonumenten announced on Friday. Wildlife cameras captured the wolf next to a dead red deer.
FACT VS. FICTION: THE EFFECT WOLVES HAVE ON YELLOWSTONE'S GAME ANIMALS, ECOLOGY
April 3rd: A group of wolves from Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, arrived at Yellowstone National Park on Jan. 12, 1995. Twenty-five years later, wolf reintroduction remains controversial with lasting ramifications for people, livestock and nature.
WOLVES, COUGARS AMBUSH SMALLER PREDATORS ATTRACTED BY SCRAPS
April 2nd: Wolves, cougars and other large predators are killing smaller carnivores, potentially controlling notoriously fecund species like coyotes.
HOW HUMANS HELPED CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK (COMMENTARY)
April 2nd: The near elimination of the gray wolf disrupted the ecology of the deer tick in multiple unexpected ways, leading to the spillover of Lyme disease into humans. Around the world today, destruction of wildlife habitat for agriculture, logging, mining and human habitation is upsetting the balance of previously isolated ecologies and putting people in proximity to wild species.