Talk:List of gray wolf populations by country

"No compensation is paid for livestock damage"
I am somewhat mystified as to what this has to do with the List of gray wolf populations by country. It is not applicable to most jurisdictions and irrelevant to the subject. This article is a MOS:LIST and no more. William Harris •  (talk) •  22:31, 14 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Nearly four years later, and I am still mystified by the need for "No compensation is paid for livestock damage." There appears to be an underlying assumption that there should be - very few nations do. Shortly, I will be removing it unless I hear otherwise here. William Harris (talk) 08:39, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

Wolf distribution in Greece
The map is extremely inaccurate (unlike the previous one), when it comes to wolf population in Greece. They appear on a mere part of Macedonia, when in fact most wolves live on all the mountains of the Pindos mountain range. (especially in mid-land Greece). I will provide this recent research by the EU, which concerns wildlife in Greece. There is a map for the wolf distribution, as well as the increase in the population: User:Kuniskos
 * Added archive http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/species/carnivores/pdf/60_Mertzanis_monitoring%20methods%20Greece.pdf

20 years out of date
I put an "update" template on the article, because a large number of the population figures are sourced to the book "Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation", which contains a table of estimated populations as of the year 2000:. Since this is long out of date, it would be helpful to update the numbers, and/or indicate (possibly with template:as of) that the cited figures are from twenty years ago. --IamNotU (talk) 16:37, 24 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Done. William Harris (talk) 05:37, 22 February 2021 (UTC)


 * A paper that just came out a week or two ago rapported the first morphometrics of pakistanese wolves. Informations about the morphometry of wolves there wasn't yet recorded or published. 13 wolves, 4 roadkills and 9 captives (but wild-caught and weighed at capture) were weighed.


 * Gimly24 (talk) 03:42, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

North America
If someone is able to update the wolf range map in North America, it should include the following (as of May 2023):

United States

 * Expanded range in Wyoming (southward)


 * Expanded range in Oregon and Washington State (eastward)


 * Presence in northern California and northern Colorado


 * Expanded Mexican wolf range in Arizona (westward and southward) and New Mexico (eastward and southward)

Mexico

 * Presence in Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico

Sources (North America)

 * The updated Mexican Wolf population distribution in the US can be viewed here: https://www.fws.gov/species/mexican-wolf-canis-lupus-baileyi/map — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbreslau (talk • contribs) 16:47, 5 March 2023 (UTC)


 * The updated Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area and Blue Range Recovery Area in the US can be found here: https://www.fws.gov/program/conserving-mexican-wolf/species (this image is public domain).
 * Here is an example of the US Fish and Wildlife Service limiting dispersal north of Highway I-40: https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2023-01/mexican-wolf-captured-north-interstate-40-new-mexico
 * This US Federal Government delisting of Gray wolves from 2020 includes up-to-date maps of all wolf distributions and future range to expand in the US, including the (still listed) Mexican wolf: https://www.regulations.gov/document/FWS-HQ-ES-2018-0097-107831
 * Bbreslau (talk) 17:57, 27 February 2023 (UTC) - Some comments added to Bbreslau post by Gimly24 (talk) 16:30, 5 March 2023 (UTC)


 * P-S : Canada likely do need any changes at the species levels. Gimly24 (talk) 17:00, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Europe

 * https://rm.coe.int/inf45e-2022-wolf-assessment-bern-convention-2791-5979-4182-1-2/1680a7fa47 (Convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats, Standing Committee, 42nd meeting, 28 November - 2 December 2022, Assessment of the conservation status of the Wolf (Canis lupus) in Europe)
 * Zlatanova et al (2014).
 * Boitani et al (2022).

Austria

 * https://www.lifewolfalps.eu/fr/ (WolfAlps : France, Slovenia, Italy, Austria)
 * Bufka et al (2005).
 * Map 2020-2021 (https://www.lifewolfalps.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AUSTRIA_Wolf_monitoring_annual_report_2020-2021_VUW.pdf)

Belarus

 * Covered. No changes needed/necessary i think.
 * Sidorovich et al (2007).
 * Sidorovich et al (2012)..
 * Sidorovich & Rotenko (2019).

Belgium

 * To see.
 * Van Der Veken et al (2021).

Bosnia-Herzegovina

 * To see. Recent studies with Trbojevic (2015, 2016), Stepanovic, Trbojevic & Cirovic (2016).
 * Ražen et al (2016).
 * Trbojević (2016).
 * Trbojević & Ćirović (2016)
 * Trbojević et al (2020).

Bulgaria

 * To see. Recent studies with Tsingarska et al. (since 2019).
 * Genov & Bojadzhiev (2002).
 * Genov et al (2010).
 * Zlatanova & Popova (2013).
 * Markov et al (2014).
 * Dolapchiev et al (2022).
 * Tsingarska et al (?).

Croatia

 * https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/life/publicWebsite/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.dspPage&n_proj_id=2202
 * Huber et al (2002).
 * Kusak et al (2005).
 * Octenjak et al (2020).

Czech Republic

 * To see. Fejklova et al (2004), Bufka et al (2005), others.
 * Fejklova et al. (2004).
 * Bufka et al (2005).
 * Bufka et al (?).

Danemark and Greenland

 * Greenland : See Dawes (1986), Marquard-Petersen Studies (1998 and up)
 * Danemark : A wolf was collared in Danemark in December 2022.
 * https://www.ulveatlas.dk/nyheder/ulv-gps-maerket-for-foerste-gang-i-danmark/ (one of the many sources for the collaring)


 * Sunde et al (2021).

Estonia

 * To see.
 * Valdmann et al (1998).

Finland

 * To see.
 * Kojola et al (2006).

France

 * https://www.lifewolfalps.eu/fr/ (WolfAlps : France, Slovenia, Italy, Austria)
 * https://www.loupfrance.fr/suivi-du-loup/reseau-loup-lynx/ (Réseau Loup-Lynx // Wolf-Lynx Network)
 * https://www.ferus.fr/actualite/quoi-de-neuf-le-bulletin-bi-annuel-du-reseau-loup (Bulletin du Réseau Loup)
 * https://www.ferus.fr/tag/suivi-hivernal (Winter surveys)


 * Map 2020-2021 (https://www.loupfrance.fr/wp-content/uploads/BILAN_ESTIVAL_2021_3.pdf)

Germany

 * https://www.dbb-wolf.de/the-dbbw (DBBW-Germany)
 * Bufka et al (2005).
 * Reinhardt et al (2015).
 * Görner (2017).
 * Ronnenberg et al (2017).
 * Map 2020-2021 (https://www.dbb-wolf.de/wolf-occurrence/evidence-in-germany/map-of-occupied-raster-cells)

Greece

 * To see.
 * Papageorgiou et al (1994).
 * Iliopoulos et al (2014).
 * Karamanlidis et al (2017).
 * Petridou et al (2019).

Hungary

 * To see. See Landzki et al and others
 * Hausknecht et al (2010).
 * Lanszki et al (2012).
 * Anthony & Tarr (2019).
 * Fehér et al (2022).

Italy

 * https://www.lifewolfalps.eu/fr/ (WolfAlps : France, Slovenia, Italy, Austria)

Latvia

 * To see. See? Andersones (2000), Andersone and Ozolins (2002, 2008, 2014), Zunna et al (2009), etc.
 * Ozoliņš et al (2001).
 * Ozoliņš et al (2008).
 * Ozoliņš et al (2017)

Lithuania

 * To see.
 * Balčiauskas et al (2002).

Luxembourg

 * Schley et al (2021).

Norway

 * To see. Tons of informations are available on them.
 * Wabakken et al (2001).
 * Pedersen (2003).
 * Liberg et al (2012).
 * Svensson et al (2019).
 * Map 2021-2022 [Scandinavia] (https://brage.nina.no/nina-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2997123/bestandsstatusstorerovdyr2022_1.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)
 * ROVBASE
 * https://www.slu.se/en/departments/ecology/research/teman/wildlife-and-predators-/skandulv/ (SKANDULV)

Poland

 * https://fundacja-save.pl/en/species-protection/europe/wolf-project/ (Part of Poland)
 * Okarma (1993).
 * Jȩdrzejewski et al (2004).
 * Nowak et al (2008).
 * Nowak & Myslajek (2016).

Portugal

 * To see.
 * Santos et al (2015).
 * Torres et al (2015).
 * Figueiredo et al (2020).

Romania

 * https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/featured-projects/wolflife_en (WolfLIFE, Romania)
 * https://wolflife.eu/home (Romania)
 * https://drive.google.com/file/d/13J1t5prJRf-kTqudj5MH09IhQJxAxwj0/view) [Map by the Romanian Ministry of Environment in "Wolf (Canis lupus) in the Eastern Romanian Carpathians: First estimates of population parameters based on a non-invasive integrated sampling design" (Sin et al, 2017)]
 * Corradini (2015).
 * Sin et al (2019).

Serbia

 * To see. Recent studies with Trbojevic & Cirovic (2016).
 * Trbojevic & Cirovic (2016).

Slovakia

 * To see
 * Findo & Chovancová (2004).
 * Rigg et al (2004).
 * Findo et al (2008).

Slovenia

 * https://www.volkovi.si/wp-content/uploads/ (SloWolf publications)
 * https://www.lifewolfalps.eu/fr/ (WolfAlps : France, Slovenia, Italy, Austria)
 * https://www.lifewolfalps.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/C4_ER_Wolf_monitoring_annual_report_2020-2021_SLO.pdf (Monitoring of Conservation Status of Wolves in Slovenia in 2020-2021 season, SUMMARY) (Map)

Spain

 * https://lifelobo.es/en/ (Project Life Andalusia - Part of Spain)
 * Santos et al (2015).

Sweden

 * To see. Tons of informations are available on them.
 * Wabakken et al (2001).
 * Pedersen (2003).
 * Liberg et al (2012).
 * Svensson et al (2019).
 * Map 2021-2022 [Scandinavia] (https://brage.nina.no/nina-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2997123/bestandsstatusstorerovdyr2022_1.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)
 * ROVBASE
 * https://www.slu.se/en/departments/ecology/research/teman/wildlife-and-predators-/skandulv/ (SKANDULV)

Switzerland

 * https://www.kora.ch/en/species (KORA - Switzerland)
 * https://www.kora.ch/en/projects/wolf/completed-projects/25-years-of-wolf-presence-in-switzerland--an-interim-assessment (25 Years of wolf presence un Switzerland - An interim assessment)
 * Crettenand & Weber (2000).
 * MAP 2016 (https://www.loupfrance.fr/wp-content/uploads/WAG_report_2015_2016_final1.pdf)

Ukraine

 * To see. See recent studies with the PSRER Study Area (Byrne et al 2018, Hinton et al 2019).

Afghanistan

 * To see

Armenia

 * To see. Wolf were pictured there in recent years.

Azerbaijan

 * To see. Wolf were pictured there in recent years.

Bangladesh

 * Not present. IIRC one wolf was pictured there a couple years ago. Anyways, not really pertinent.

China

 * To see.
 * Liu, B., & Jiang, Z. (2003).
 * Lu, W. et al (2016)
 * Werhahn, G. et al (2020).

Georgia

 * Covered. No changes needed/necessary?

India

 * To see. See Srinivas & Jhala (2021) and others.
 * Srinivas, Y., & Jhala, Y. (2021).

Iran

 * To see

Iraq

 * To see

Israel

 * To see. Numerous studies on them.
 * Hefner & Geffen (1999).
 * Reichmann & Saltz (2005).
 * Bonsen et al (2022).

Jordan

 * To see

Kazakhstan

 * Covered. No changes needed/necessary? See Leontyev et al (2021) anyways.
 * Leontyev et al (2021).

Kuwait

 * to see

Kyrgyzstan

 * Covered. No changes needed/necessary?

Lebanon

 * to see ?

Mongolia

 * Covered. No changes needed/necessary
 * Kaczensky et al (2008).

Oman

 * to see ?

Pakistan

 * To see with recent study of Sarwar et al (2021)
 * Sarwar et al (2021).

Qatar

 * to see ?

Russia

 * Covered. No changes needed/necessary

Saudi Arabia

 * to see ?

Syria

 * to see ?

Tajikistan

 * to see ?

Turkmenistan

 * to see ?

Turkey

 * Covered. No changes needed/necessary?

UAE

 * to see ?

Uzbekistan

 * to see ?

Yemen

 * to see ?

Himalayan Wolf

 * To see. I got some studies from India, Nepal (See Subba 2012, Kunwar 2015) and Bhutan (See Jamstho, 2017).
 * Subba (2012).
 * Habib et al (2013).
 * Kunwar (2015).
 * Jamtsho, Y (2017)
 * Balajeid Lyngdoh et al (2020).
 * Pal et al (2022).

Wolf Populations from Blanco and Sundseth (2023). The situation of the wolf (Canis lupus) in the European Union.
This wikipedia article needs a big revival and actualization. However, we do not necessarily need to remove something to add more updated information. We could showcase the progresses (or decreases) made by wolf populations with estimates of populations by time.

In "Blanco JC and Sundseth K (2023) . The situation of the wolf (Canis lupus) in the European Union – An In-depth Analysis. A report of the N2K Group for DG Environment, European Commission." 

It is said (page 8) under the sub-section : Updated information on wolf numbers in the European Union

"In 2023, wolves have been detected across all EU Member States except Ireland, Cyprus and Malta, and there are breeding packs in 23 countries. In this analysis, about 20,300 wolves have been estimated in 2023 across the EU, a figure slightly higher than the 19,400 wolves estimated by Boitani et al. (2022) and significantly higher than the 11,193 wolves estimated in 2012. Overall, the number of wolves in the EU is increasing."

There are multiples pertinents tables and figures in this documents (such as table 2.2.1, figure 2.3.1, table 2.4.1 (NOTABLY), table 2.4.2 (Notably), and others)

I'm particularly busy with time. But I felt important to share this updated source that covers most European countries, so that one or many members could help out updating this article, in a cooperative manner. Gimly24 (talk) 02:02, 17 February 2024 (UTC)