wolves

Wolves ‘Established’ in Netherlands for First Time in 140 Years

Wolves ‘Established’ in Netherlands for First Time in 140 Years

For the first time in 140 years, wolves have an official home in the Netherlands. Ecologists told BBC Radio 4 that a female wolf they had been tracking had stayed in the country for six months and could therefore be called “established,” BBC News reported Tuesday. The ecologists had been tracking two females in the […]

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    5 Conservation Milestones to Celebrate on This International Day for Biological Diversity

    5 Conservation Milestones to Celebrate on This International Day for Biological Diversity

    Scientists are increasingly realizing the importance of biodiversity for sustaining life on earth. The most comprehensive biodiversity study in a decade, published in March by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), warned that the ongoing loss of species and habitats was as great a threat to our and our planet’s wellbeing […]

    Wolves Are Losing Ground to Industrial Logging in Southeast Alaska

    Wolves Are Losing Ground to Industrial Logging in Southeast Alaska

    By Faith Rudebusch For 12,000 years, wolves have roamed Southeast Alaska’s rugged Alexander Archipelago—a 300-mile stretch of more than 1,000 islands mostly within the Tongass National Forest. Now, their old-growth forest habitat is rapidly disappearing, putting the wolves at risk. As the region’s logging policies garner controversy, a new study examines what the wolves need […]

    Senate Republicans Push for Extinction of North Carolina’s Red Wolf

    Senate Republicans Push for Extinction of North Carolina’s Red Wolf

    Tucked away in the Senate report accompanying Monday’s funding bill for the Department of the Interior is a directive to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to “end the Red Wolf recovery program and declare the Red Wolf extinct.” “Senate Republicans are trying to hammer a final nail in the coffin of the struggling red […]

    Senate Approves Legislation to Kill Wolves, Bears in Alaska Wildlife Refuges

    Senate Approves Legislation to Kill Wolves, Bears in Alaska Wildlife Refuges

    The U.S. Senate used the Congressional Review Act Tuesday to strip away regulatory safeguards implemented by the Obama administration in 2016 to protect wolves, bears and other predators on national wildlife refuges in Alaska. In a strict, party-line vote, Senate Republicans approved today’s measure, which will allow the unsportsmanlike killing of wolves and their pups […]

    Huge Victory for Norway’s Wolves

    Huge Victory for Norway’s Wolves

    Vidar Helgesen, the Norwegian minister for climate and environment, announced Tuesday that the government denied permission to shoot the four wolf packs in the areas of Letjenna, Osdalen, Kynna and Slettås. The government concluded that there is no legal basis for the hunt, neither in the national nature protection laws nor in the Bern Convention, […]

    Court Stops U.S. Fish & Wildlife from Killing Wild Red Wolves

    Court Stops U.S. Fish & Wildlife from Killing Wild Red Wolves

    The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina today issued a preliminary injunction that orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to stop capturing and killing—and authorizing private landowners to capture and kill—members of the rapidly dwindling population of wild red wolves. On behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, the Animal Welfare […]