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Wolf

by Jeremy Hance and Rhett Butler
Saving the Ethiopian wolf in face of habitat loss, diseased dogs, and climate change, an interview with Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, founder of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme.
Living on the roof of Africa, the Ethiopian wolf is one of the world’s rarest carnivores, if not the rarest! Trapped on a few mountain [...]

By Mail Foreign Service
He is a fully grown Rottweiler. She is a tiny wolf pup.
But that hasn’t stopped 18-month-old,150lb dog Ulrok and and eight-week-old cub Beldaran becoming best of friends
They sleep together, frolic in the sun and even howl at the moon in unison – and their unlikely union brings a smile to the face [...]

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AKWESASNE TERRITORY — An unusual wolf-dog hybrid that went missing from a northern New York Native American territory in a case of foul play has been recaptured and safely returned to a wolf pack sanctuary in Indiana.
The canine disappeared from its cage on the Akwesasne Territory April 19. Akwesasne authorities immediately suspected [...]

As strangers begin to approach, a stirring inside the double-fenced pen registers to Maria Ferguson.
From the outside, it takes a moment to discern the slowly moving shapes within the dense shade of the enclosure. Two layers of steel-wire fencing distract your focus like a window screen, while the glare of the afternoon sun dares the [...]

The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park has had a dramatic effect on its environment, helping to restore its ecological balance to a more natural state that was last seen half a century ago.
Since wolves were returned to America’s most celebrated national park in 1995 after an absence of 70 years, young aspen trees [...]

A demand by Catron County officials to remove an endangered Mexican gray wolf from the wild in southwestern New Mexico has been rejected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
County officials wanted the female wolf removed because they said it had a history of cattle depredations. The county threatened to enforce an ordinance it passed [...]

Most people cannot escape the magical images conjured up by a wolf’s howl.
Here in the mountains of New Mexico it’s a common sound, and anyone who has seen “Dances With Wolves” can feel the Native American spirit associated with them. A road trip to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary is not only a chance to [...]