NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Max Graham, a writer for High Country News, about Alaska's declining caribou population, and the state's plan to save them by shooting predators like grizzlies and wolves.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wolf on Pleasant Island, Alaska, with a sea otter head in its mouth. Gretchen Roffler When Alaska’s wolves began eating sea ...

Recently, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it had made the difficult decision to kill four members of one of the state’s 10 known wolf packs in an area just north of Lake Tahoe ...

One man has dedicated his life to understanding and protecting wolves. Oliver Starr, also known as “Oliver the Wolf Guy,” works alongside some of the world’s wildest coworkers: a pack of actual wolves ...

For many Americans, especially in cities, that sounds like an environmental triumph: a species brought back from the brink. But numbers alone do not tell the full story. In the rural communities where ...

In late 2020, a female coastal wolf collared for a study on predation patterns unexpectedly died in southeastern Alaska. The wolf, No. 202006, was only four years old. "We spent quite a bit of time ...

The potential move to Alaska comes amid concerns about securing wolves from British Columbia due to possible U.S.-Canada trade tensions. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials have declined to confirm ...

National Geographic Explorer Ronan Donovan, a wildlife biologist turned conservation photographer, will be coming to the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen on Dec. 16 to explore what it means to be human in ...

Legend had it that ravens followed wolves to fresh kills. A tracking study reveals a much more interesting scavenging ...

Dr. Middleton and Dr. Brashares are professors of environmental science, policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Orrick is the director of the California Wolf Project.