Grey Wolves
Europe was once inhabited by large numbers of grey wolves. Fear perpetuated by religion, Aesop’s fables and other folklore drove wolves to extinction in many countries after hundreds of years of persecution. Recent legal protection and improved management are allowing current numbers to increase in various countries. Wolf sightings occur more and more frequently in countries where wolves have been absent for more than a hundred years, showing that the population is expanding beyond strongholds in Russia and other remote wilderness.
Wolves are variously protected and hunted/trapped as furbearing animals throughout Europe.
European wolves in the news:
May 12, 2023
British species facing their ‘biggest threat in a generation’, say leading nature groups
April 21, 2023
Norway landmark ruling sees five jailed over wolf hunting
January 16, 2023
Soviet collapse was bad for wildlife
January 15, 2023
Sweden gives go-ahead to controversial wolf cull
January 8, 2023
Are wolves on the loose in Sweden’s capital?
December 23, 2022
Swedish wolf hunt put on hold after protests
December 17, 2022
Challenge the abuse of science in setting policy: The misuse of wolf research by Swedish politicians should be a warning to all biodiversity scientists
December 12, 2022
Wolves and Bears Stage Comeback in Crowded, Urban Europe
November 27, 2022
Sheep flock to Eiffel Tower as French farmers cry wolf
November 19, 2022
PETA launches campaign to save Lapland’s wolves
November 6, 2022
Wolves roaming wild in Denmark for first time in 200 years
May 16, 2023
‘No ecological reason’ against reintroducing wolves
Thank you that is so kind of you ! The wolves here are truly under siege and untfnturaoely the hate seems to be spreading across the country. More and more people are learning of their plight however and though things haven’t gotten better for the wolves yet , I truly believe that the tide is beginning to turn.
I would like to coemmnt on Michael Yarnes coemmnt from Feb. 17. For someone that seems to feel that he is highly educated on wolves apparently has never been around them. Come to Gardiner,Mt. and tell the Outfitters and Ranchers and Hunters that the decline in the Yellowstone Park Elk Herd is everything but the Wolf. Im sure that you will get an ear full. Gardiner used to be the best place to elk hunt before the wolves, now hardly anybody hunts there. Thier used to be 2,500 late hunt cow permits and 150 late hunt bull permits and the herd kept growing. Now it’s 150 cow permits and 35 bull permits with the possiblity that these will be terminated. The herd has been redused by almost two thirds of what it was before the wolves, so forgive us in Montana,Wyoming and Idaho for not liking coemmnts like yours .
I am very disturbed by the wolf deapdertion that has taken place in Idaho, Montana, and appears to be spreading to other states like my own-Washington. Please keep up your fight for the wolves in Idaho; you are doing the right thing! I will be mailing you a check to support your efforts!Mrs. K
I was at the Wolf People place right after that cub was born, it was maybe 1 week or 2 old. It’s was very sickly and nerlay hairless, except for the Mohawk. Good to see it making progress. That is a very cool place.