The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia is in talks to extend its decade-long wolf cull program by another five years. Since 2015, the province has killed wolves in areas with declining populations of endangered woodland caribou as part of its Caribou Recovery Program. In April 2026, provincial authorities began engaging key stakeholders about […]
Tag: Gray Wolves
Trump rollback of US forest protections could accelerate extinction of 400 endangered species
More than 400 endangered animal and plant species could face accelerated extinction after the Donald Trump administration’s decision to rescind a rule that has protected old-growth forests for more than two decades. According to a new report from the Center for Biological Diversity, the rollback of the Bill Clinton-era “roadless rule” could put 7.4m acres (3m hectares) of endangered-species habitat and nearly […]
Wyoming’s Failure Looms Large In The Wake Of Cody Roberts
With the sentencing of Cody Roberts, his heinous “wolf whacking” incident near Daniel, Wyoming appears to be behind us, and with Wyoming Legislator’s subsequent passage of an “animal cruelty” law, we have to ask: what, if anything has changed? Unfortunately, not much. Anyone can still take their snowmobile and run down a wolf, a coyote, […]
Predators in peril: Protected areas cover just a fraction of global carnivore ranges
Slinking beneath the greenery of the Amazon is a cat whose territory far exceeds its stature. Despite weighing less than the average housecat, scientists say the northern tiger cat (Leopardus tigrinus) stalks a territory of up to 50 square kilometers (around 20 square miles). And this small, spotted feline is not alone — carnivores around […]
“Their eerie howling from a wintery mountainside will still bring a shiver to the spine” – 10 biggest wild dogs on the planet
We all know some of the more sizeable domestic dogs – Great Danes, Newfoundlands and St Bernards, for example – mostly seen on a lead with their loving owners. Less familiar, perhaps, are their equally sizeable canine relatives, at large in the wild, which are a quite different and more dangerous proposition. Let’s take a […]
Colorado has wolves again for the first time in 80 years. Why are they dying?
On a sunny morning two years ago, a group of state officials stood in the mountains of northwestern Colorado in front of a handful of large metal crates. With a small crowd watching them, the officials began to unlatch the crate doors one by one. Out of each came a gray wolf — arguably the […]
France’s largest rewilding project takes root in the Dauphiné Alps
In the foothills of the western Alps in southeastern France, horned alpine ibex roam the limestone cliffs of a smaller mountain range known as the Dauphiné Alps, a region once home to thriving populations of wild horses, bison, roe deer, gray wolves, Eurasian lynx, and four species of vultures. In June of this year, the […]
First state-authorized killings mark escalation in California’s management of wolves
This is the third part of Mongabay’s series on the expanding wolf population in California. Read the first and the second parts. In late October, wildlife authorities in the U.S. state of California announced they captured and euthanized three adult gray wolves and shot a juvenile dead, all from the Beyem Seyo pack in the […]