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By December 2011, Oregon's gray wolf population had grown to 24. One of the Oregon gray wolves, known as OR-7, traveled more than 700 miles (1,100 km) to the Klamath Basin [citation needed] and crossed the border into California. [138] Wolf OR-7 became the first wolf west of the Cascades in Oregon since the last bounty was claimed in 1947. [139]
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] In British-ruled India, wolves were heavily persecuted because of their attacks on sheep, goats and children.
The global wild wolf population in 2003 was estimated at 300,000. [132] Wolf population declines have been arrested since the 1970s. This has fostered recolonization and reintroduction in parts of its former range as a result of legal protection, changes in land use, and rural human population shifts to cities.
Development of the wolf population in Germany Wolf attacks on domestic animals. Wolf monitoring [18] is used to determine the extent to which the genetic exchange between the various wolf populations or subpopulations is taking place again. [19] So today, immigration of wolves from Poland to Germany but also return migration to the east is ...
“In total, the gray wolf population in the lower 48 states is more than 6,000 wolves, greatly exceeding the combined recovery goals for the Northern Rocky Mountains and Western Great Lakes ...
The grey wolf was present only in the eastern and northern parts of Finland by 1900, though its numbers increased after World War II. [20] Although the Finnish wolf population rose by 2005 to around 250 individuals, by 2013, their numbers had again declined to the mid-1990s figure of around 140.
Hunnicutt said that the deployed collars will help state scientists track the state’s wolf population, which was estimated to be at least 70 in the fall of last year, up from 44 in 2023.
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.