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As of 2018, the global gray wolf population is estimated to be 200,000–250,000. [1] Once abundant over much of North America and Eurasia, the gray wolf inhabits a smaller portion of its former range because of widespread human encroachment and destruction of its habitat, and the resulting human-wolf encounters that sparked broad extirpation.
A California gray wolf, dubbed OR 85, in 2023. The wolf was fitted with a satellite collar to help the California Department of Fish and Wildlife track the state's burgeoning wolf population.
The DNR’s 2024 winter wolf population survey estimated at least 762 wolves distributed among 158 packs — a 131-animal increase since the last survey in 2022 and the highest estimate since 2012 ...
The gray wolf has been fully protected in Italy since 1976, and now holds a population of over 1,269–1,800. [9] Italian wolves entered France's Mercantour National Park in 1993, and at least fifty wolves were discovered in the western Alps in 2000.
September wolf sightings in rural northern Ventura County were confirmed by CDFW through the identification of recent wolf tracks. Due to the purple collar, the animal was assumed to be OR-93. [55] This is the farthest south in California that a gray wolf has been documented since one was captured in San Bernardino County in 1922. [58]
California's wolf population has taken off in the last two years, and this month two new packs were confirmed. Above, a gray wolf known as OR-93, which was spotted near Yosemite in 2021.
Wolves have naturally migrated in the three state region. As of 2021, the estimated stable population is 4,400 in the three states. [20] Wolves may also disperse across the Great Plains into this region from the northern Rocky Mountain region which includes Wyoming with approximately 300 wolves and Colorado with a small population.
In New Mexico, restoration efforts led to a gradual increase in population – up 6 percent between 2022 and 2023 for the latest totals of 144 wolves in New Mexico and 113 in Arizona.