Posts Tagged: Anthropogenic mortality

Gray wolf mortality patterns in Wisconsin from 1979 to 2012

Posted on May 5, 2022

Starting in the 1970s, many populations of large-bodied mammalian carnivores began to recover from centuries of human-caused eradication and habitat destruction. The recovery of several such populations has since slowed or reversed due to mortality caused by humans. Illegal killing … read more

Posted in Biology, Resources | Tagged Anthropogenic mortality, carnivore, conflict, illegal killing, poaching, sampling bias, take

Quantifying the effects of delisting wolves after the first state began lethal management

Posted on July 31, 2021

Predators and their protection are controversial worldwide. Gray wolves, Canis lupus, lost U.S. federal protection (delisting) and the State of Wisconsin began lethal management first among all states and tribes that regained authority over wolves. Here we evaluated the initial … read more

Posted in Hunting Wolves | Tagged Anthropogenic mortality, Canis lupus, Human-caused mortality, hunting, Illegal take, poaching, policy, Regulated an dunregulated off-take, U.S. endangered species act, Wisconsin gray wolf

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Who’s afraid of the New York wolf?tinyurl.com/5y7b6844The 85-pound animal killed by a hunter near Cooperstown in December looked like a wolf and seemed like a wolf. That’s not a wolf, said the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which insisted the animal was a coyote.In July, though, the Natural Resources DNA Profiling and Forensic Centre at Trent University in Ontario, hired by wildlife advocates, released its own genetic analysis of the animal and found it to be 98 percent gray wolf.DEC's response? Not a wolf, the agency insisted, citing a separate DNA analysis done at its behest. The agency refused to release that analysis, however, despite Freedom of Information Law requests.Only when results from another independent lab test came back earlier this month showing that the animal was — you guessed it — a wolf did the DEC finally admit what was obvious. Yet “natural recolonization of the state by wolves is currently unlikely,” the agency added.All of this raises a question: Why is the state so unwilling to concede that there are wolves in New York, even when confronted with convincing evidence?The obvious answer: Admitting the presence of wolves would require that New York take steps to safeguard an animal that is supposed to benefit from state and federal endangered species protections. It might also raise additional questions about the state’s controversial coyote hunt.photo: John E. Marriott Wildlife and Nature Photography ... See MoreSee Less

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California Wolf Center is celebrating their 45 year anniversary! Please like their page and leave a note of thanks on their post for their wolf conservation work. ... See MoreSee Less

California Wolf Center celebrates 45th Anniversary

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