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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.
Their population decline continued until the 1960s, with isolated populations surviving in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Finland. Wolf populations have commenced recovering naturally since then. [25] Iberian wolf in Tudela de Duero, Spain. The Iberian wolf consists of over 2,000 individuals in over 350 packs distributed across 140,000 km 2.
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.
Researchers typically conduct aerial surveys of the island to develop population estimates and observe animal behavior. ... that they managed to gather data that shows the wolf population is ...
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A second clip, taken last fall, records two black wolves and a gray wolf fording the same stream. Most of the 2,500 to 3,000 wolves in Poland are gray with red or black accents.
The city has a population of 105,795, [99] making it the sixth largest city in Portugal. Because of its high cultural and historical value, Funchal is one of Portugal's main tourist attractions; it is also popular as a destination for New Year's Eve , and it is the leading Portuguese port on cruise liner dockings.
The high, long, and rocky islands of the group are barren of topsoil, and the only wildlife consists of about sixteen species of birds, including eight species of seabirds, and a scarce population of feral goats, rabbits, and rodents, brought from Portugal by the mariners who first reached the rocky shores.