Shooting wolves is a long-standing practice in the ranching world. It helped lead to the animal’s eradication in the western United States in the 1930s. Since the wolf’s reintroduction in the mid-1990s, government officials and ranchers have frequently reached for a gun to cope with livestock problems—killing more than 2,000 wolves by 2013. In 2011, wolves were removed from federal …
SE: Swedish wolf hunt put on hold after protests | Timber Wolf Information Network
The decision by the County Administrative board to allow the cull of eight animals in the country was appealed by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (Naturskyddsföreningen – SSNC), the Swedish Carnivore Association (SCA) and the WWF. “This means that there will be no hunt starting on January 9th,†said Gunilla Skotnicka Ewing at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (NaturvÃ¥rdsverket) …
Experts Say Great Lakes Wolves Aren’t Endangered – ABC News
I hate fucking idiots!! Wolves arent  5% of what they were before Humans slaughtered them to begin with! A group of wolf experts disputed Monday that gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are endangered or that a judge’s ruling will help the region’s population spread to other states. A federal judge on Friday threw out the Obama administration’s decision …
Rethinking predators: Legend of the wolf : Nature News & Comment
In 2008, Kristin Marshall was driving through Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Marshall, a graduate student at the time, had come to the park to study willow shrubs — specifically, how much they were being eaten by elk. Read the rest of the story: Rethinking predators: Legend of the wolf : Nature News & Comment.