Grey Wolf
Scientific Name:
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Canis lupus
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Common Name(s):
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Gray Wolf (American)
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Timber Wolf
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Common Wolf
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Wolf
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Status:
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Least Concern
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Endangered (USA)
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Estimated Population:
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200,000
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9,000 (USA)
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15,500-18,000 (Europe)
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Population Trend:
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Stable
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Threats:
Conflict with human activities; farmers, wolves being forced to prey upon
livestock; human enroachment into pack territory; hunting and poaching, hide,
trophy, percieved threat; habitat fragmentation; removal of prey animals;
conflicts with wolves, overlapping territories.
Range:
Wolves now occupy only a small percent of their original range: Afghanistan;
Albania; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Bhutan; Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Bulgaria; Canada; China; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland;
France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Greenland; Hungary; India; Iran, Islamic
Republic of; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Korea,
Democratic
People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia;
Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya; Lithuania; Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic
of; Mexico;
Moldova; Mongolia; Montenegro; Myanmar; Nepal; Norway;
Oman;
Pakistan; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Russian Federation; Saudi
Arabia;
Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan;
Turkey; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United States;
Uzbekistan; Yemen
Note from Vikali:
Despite their apparently vast range, the relative land mass of which wolves
occupy is very small. Due to predjudices of farmers to wolves and the habits
of hunters, this species could slip all too easily back to endangered, perhaps
even to the point of critically so. While the statistics show that the Grey Wolf
is of 'Least Concern', many of its subspecies are already extinct and most of
its remaining ones are either endangered or nearing that point. In the USA
(lower 48 states), there are just about 9,000 of these creatures left alive.
Remember: in conservation, every little counts. Any bit of help you offer these
animals, no matter how small, is vital to their continued existance.
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