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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]
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.
Having reached that goal in 1999 with a population of 197, the state adopted the Wisconsin Wolf Management Plan for guidance towards eventual delisting. [10] In 2003, the status of wolves in Wisconsin moved down to threatened rather than endangered. The known population in 2004 was 335 which included 8 on Indian reservations. [11]
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.
The DNR’s 2024 winter wolf population survey estimated at least 762 wolves distributed among 158 packs — a 131-animal increase since the last survey in 2022 and the highest estimate since 2012 ...
Oregon's wolf population was 175 in 2021 and 173 in 2020, after typically showing double-digit growth in previous years. ... A map by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows areas of ...
The last wolf sighting in the Central Coast area had been in 1826. [54] After being tracked through sixteen California counties, the signal was lost. [55] While avoiding populated areas, the wolf had crossed three major highways: California Route 99, Interstate 5, and Highway 101. [56]
A map shows the territories of 16 wolf packs in the northern Minnesota study area of the Voyageurs Wolf Project. Wolves mostly stay in their home ranges, a behavior that helps avoid conflicts with ...