Ten wolves have been sighted in Catalonia in recent years, including a female, confirming the return this animal populations from southern France, after its extinction by human activity during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In a lengthy article by staff of the Directorate General Environment of the Generalitat and publishes the journal Quercus', biologists and rural officials detailed the genetic analysis performed on hair and excrement recovered confirmed the presence of at least 13 different specimens, especially in the Natural Park of Cadi-Moixeró.
While experts say that so far "no evidence of reproduction in Catalunya, in part because the expansion of the animal the first to colonize new regions are young males, experts also say that the wolf has reached the Pyrenees to stay, so predict conflicts with ranchers in the area.
Genetic tests have also ruled that wolves are akin to the Iberian populations in northwest Spain, and note that Catalunya copies prowl come from the lineage of the Italian-French ancestry, but did not eliminate the contact between both groups in the near future.
In total, experts estimate that the wolf occupies 1,400 km in the massif of Kadi and other mountain ranges spread over several counties bordering the Pyrenees, most protected natural areas with an abundance of chamois, roe deer, wild boars and hares, but also have incursions detected up to 90 miles south, arriving in the province of Barcelona.
The detailed monitoring has become the wolf, which began with the first confirmation in 2004 of the presence of a copy, also include the discovery of the body of an animal less than a year ago in Cadi, if While the autopsy was performed concluded that the animal was not killed by gunfire or by poisoning.
addition, rural workers made more than twenty sightings of a young male accompanied by a hunting dog cross, which even saw a flock of sheep attacked in broad daylight, but found after capturing the dog that it had never been pregnant, thus ruling out species hybridization.
Track: Europa Press
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