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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]
A rebound in the Alpine country's wolf population to more 300 from less than 50 a decade ago - according to data from the Switzerland-based KORA Foundation - has prompted a fierce debate over how ...
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.
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.
The Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the common wolf, [3] is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia. It was once widespread throughout Eurasia prior to the Middle Ages . Aside from an extensive paleontological record, Indo-European languages typically have several words for "wolf", thus attesting to the animal's ...