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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.
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 third island propagation project introduced a population on St. Vincent Island, Florida, offshore between Cape San Blas and Apalachicola, Florida, in 1990, and in 1997, the fourth island propagation program introduced a population to Cape St. George Island, Florida, south of Apalachicola. 1991 release in the Great Smoky Mountains
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Banks Island wolf: Anderson, 1943 A large, slender subspecies with a narrow muzzle and large carnassials. [100] Limited to Banks and Victoria Islands in the Canadian Arctic banksianus Anderson, 1943 [101] Currently (2025) synonymized under C. l. arctos [1] [102] † C. l. floridanus Florida black wolf but refer Synonyms: Miller, 1912
Gable said in an area where wolves were recolonizing, similar to what occurred in Wisconsin from the 1970s to the 2010s, the wolf population is likely to show increases until it had filled the ...
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 ...
This wolf is recognized as a subspecies of Canis lupus in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World (2005). [2]Currently, this canid is widely considered to be a subspecies of the red wolf Canis rufus [5] and that a variation in the red wolf's coloring led to the creation of the Florida black wolf. [6]