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The Department of Natural Resources estimated at least 762 wolves in the Upper Peninsula, a population which may have reached carrying capacity. Michigan gray wolf population at highest in 12 ...
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.
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]
Wolves in the Iberian Peninsula. Spain's wolf population is estimated at 2,000–3,000 and growing. [6] Their population is concentrated in two autonomous communities: around 700 in Galicia [9] and 1,600 in Castille and León. [10] Wolves are considered a game species, though they are protected in the southern regions of the country.
Recent action sowed even more division; as the population rebounded, the gray wolf was taken off the federal government's endangered species list in 2020 and the management was shifted to the states.
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.
As of 2018, the western Upper Peninsula is home to about 173,887 people, while the eastern Upper Peninsula is home to about 133,499 people, a total of 307,386—only about 3% of the state's population—living in almost one-third of the state's land area.
Tucked into the landscape of South Salem, New York, the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a haven of hope and education for one of nature’s most misunderstood predators. Founded in the mid-1990s ...