Trail camera catches a wolf pup in Germany's Black Forest for the first time in years, linking the region's wolves back to Europe's wild populations

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Wolf pup sighted in the Blackforest for the first time in years.
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Ben10-fan-525 Top 1% Commenter Yes Wolves in Europe need any W they can get!!!
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Genoidal-Ape OP Hopefully this one won't run Infront of a car, like the last one. And its father isn't a infamous livestock ki er too, so things are looking good for it.
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NotANameJET This is so important to link the wolf populations in the Alps with the one in northern Germany and Poland.
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Ben10-fan-525 Top 1% Commenter Genetic diversity bridge.
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thesilverywyvern If spanish wolf finally install in the Pyrenee, France could have two stronghold for the species (if they don't get shot, alp population had a decade of tranquility, then a decade of slight persecution by derogation before being persecuted as they're today, this helped them).
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If that happen not only France will be the only european country with 3 wolves subspecies. But would have another point of dispersal for wolves, which would greatly accelerate the species recovery and expansion accross the country. (which is still msotly limited to the Eastern regions, with only a few packs and vagrant individual in the rest of the country).
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It also mean we would have a genetic exchange between the three subspecies. Italian wolves would get genetic diversity from iberian one in southern france, and with german wolves in northeastern France and north of the Alps.
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Ben10-fan-525 Nice that they didnt face full force of the human hate for all the time. Hopefully it worksout.I see not ideal.Ideal to see there genes all mix. Good exchanges.
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thesilverywyvern It was simply illegal to k I them back then. Poaching happened from time to time. Then french law got looser due to politician sxcrutiny, and derogation were allowed, more and more often each years, so much so it was not different than official regular hunting with quota...even tho the population was barely a a couple of hundreds individuals.
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Then it became open quota, 15% annually, which is insane. Then it got to 18, and now 21% more than what is allowed for red deer for godsake.
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France have less wolves than spain, italy or even germany even tho it's larger and have a lot of good habitat, including lot of area whith low population (the empty diagonal). But is also THE most anti-nature country in Europe that's not UK. Extreme prejudice and hatred toward bears, wolves and even lynxes. vutures and seals are even considered as controversial.
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Ben10-fan-525 Dn the lobbyist.Glad they arent exterpaited. Guess that one user wasnt exadirating is wrong with thoes crazy french lobbyist losers..
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thesilverywyvern hunter being b rd and pastoiral/normal farmer being entilted j who better blame wolves than mosanto, trade with brazilian/new zealand product or their own incompetence.
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Ben10-fan-525 Bad apples always ruin the fun for everybody.
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