A century later, a wolf has been born again in Catalonia. This "historic milestone" was announced Wednesday by the Catalan Interior Ministry through its Rural Agents Corps. Three pups have been confirmed in a large area between Alta Garrotxa and Alt Empordà. The discovery comes after decades of monitoring the species, which had disappeared from the region. until a quarter of a century agoThen, the return of an isolated wolf was detected in the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park. With the birth of the pups, as stipulated by regulations, the wolf automatically transitioned from an extinct species to an endangered species. The pairing of the parents of these three pups has not been an easy process. Almost two years ago, Rural Agents confirmed the presence of a wolf in this area of the Girona region. In May, they were able to genetically identify it and discovered it was a female. That same month, they located a second animal in the area, which they identified as a male. But the two wolves always traveled separately and were always far from each other. This changed in December 2024: suddenly, the two animals were together. From that moment on, the Rural Agents intensified the monitoring and surveillance of the area, which is a very large and extensive region with complex terrain.

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74% of gray wolves (Canis lupus) who lose their lives in the northern hemisphere of the world die due to human activity. This is the main conclusion of a scientific study led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and published this Thursday in the journal Mammal Review. The work highlights "the extensive persecution" suffered by the species and the risk posed by coexisting with humans.

Despite starring in many legends and folk tales, in the first third of the 20th century wolves disappeared from Catalan forests and mountains. Yet in the year 2000 it managed a comeback in the Pyrenees, after a very long journey from Italy, through the Alps and across France. Within the framework of the European project LoupO, the Catalan nature rangers are tasked with monitoring on the field and currently have detected four males living in Catalonia. Two of them were located some time ago –one in Ripollès and one in Port del Comte–, but there are two more that have been confirmed recently: one has settled in the region of Moianès and the other in Alta Ribagorça. The wolf monitoring coordinator, Gabriel Lampreave, emphasises that it is an animal that is very afraid of humans and, therefore, "there is no danger to people". However, with its return, the nightmares for shepherds and their herds, who are wolves' main victims, have also returned. "The administration compensates you for any animals lost, but this does not compensate you for all the losses you have suffered," laments a livestock farmer from Odèn (Solsonès), Florenci Serra, who after losing 150 animals had to switch from sheep to cattle to prevent the farm from going under.