In May 2025, the European Parliament changed the status of wolves in the EU from “strictly protected” to “protected,” which opened the way for its member states to allow hunting under certain ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A new report by 18 European scientists shows that healthy wolves do attack humans, although such ...

Now that wolf populations are returning to Europe's forests after centuries of being hunted to near extinction, wildlife researchers are asking: Are these predators starting to lose their fear of ...

As wolves return to parts of their historical ranges in Europe and North America, there’s growing concern that the predators are becoming less fearful of people. But a recent study from Poland shows ...

Researchers found that the predatory canines were far more likely to flee recordings of human voices than they were to run away from other sounds. By Lesley Evans Ogden Lesley Evans Ogden previously ...

The Voyageurs Wolf Project (VWP) published a new paper in the October 2023 issue of Ecological Applications, which examined wolves’ hunting patterns of deer in the Northwoods region of Minnesota and ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in ...

In a rare opportunity to study carnivores before and after wolves were reintroduced to their ranges, researchers found that the effects of wolves on Isle Royale have been only temporary. And even in ...