On a small island in the Baltic Sea, a cache of ancient wolf bones is reshaping how I think about the earliest encounters between humans and large carnivores in northern Europe. The remains, recovered ...

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 ...

In 2012, a young wolf named Slavc loped into the Lessini Mountains of Italy, completing a 1,200-mile route from Slovenia, where he was born. This was a dangerous place for a wolf to settle. The region ...

“Is that one there?” Kaggie Orrick, a National Geographic Explorer and conservation scientist, asks from the passenger’s seat of the truck. She and her colleague and collaborator Malia Byrtus — a ...

At the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center near the town of Divide, CEO and founder Darlene Kobobel points out her furry permanent residents. "This here is Nanook. That's Raven," she says, approaching ...

Adventure travelers are joining expert-led expeditions from Italy’s Apennines and Spain’s Riaño Mountains to the French Alps and Finland for the chance to see wolves in the wild.