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A mixture of the European subspecies is desirable from a population-biological point of view, as it increases genetic diversity. The favourable conservation status of wolves is the definition of a wolf population that is no longer threatened with extinction, that is capable of long-term survival. In Europe the favourable conservation status is ...
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.
Soviet wolf populations reached a low around 1970, disappearing over much of European Russia. The population increased again by 1980 to about 75,000, with 32,000 being killed in 1979. [26] Wolf populations in northern Inner Mongolia declined during the 1940s, primarily because of poaching of gazelles, the wolf's main prey. [27]
Wednesday’s vote left the hard-right European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European parliament with a scent of victory. “For years, conservatives in the European Parliament have been calling for a more flexible approach to the growing wolf population, which has become a pest in some regions,” the ECR said in a statement.
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.
However, animal rights activists believe that limiting the country to only 22 wolves could make it too difficult for the population to sustain itself. Show comments Advertisement
Ilka Reinhardt, Gesa Kluth, Sabina Nowak, Robert W. Myslajek: Standards for the monitoring of the Central European wolf population in Germany and Poland. BfN-Skripten Volume 398. Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN), Bonn 2015 (English, online, PDF file, 1.36 MB).
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.