Wolf populations in Europe have increased by 58% in the last decade, from 12,000 to 21,500, thanks to wildlife conservation policies.
Countries such as Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Spain, and Romania each have over a thousand wolves.
This is supported by a study
of 34 countries conducted by an international research group led
by Italian Cecilia Di Bernardi of the Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences and coordinated by Luigi Boitani of
Sapienza University in Rome. Wolf populations increased in 19 of
the 34 countries surveyed, including Italy, Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, the Slovak
Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the European part
of Turkey. Wolf populations remained relatively stable in eight
countries (Albania, Croatia, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal,
Romania, Spain, and Ukraine), while decreasing in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Montenegro, and North Macedonia.
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