Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department released wolves back into the state after last year's victory

Colorado Parks and Wildlife Department released the first ever wolves back into the state after last year's victory to regain their federal protections. The 2022 decision reversed the Trump administration's delisting of the critical predator. This is a exciting victory for habitats and wildlife!
Video courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife / Jerry Neal
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[@leahbadolato5878]

Excellent work to this conservation group! Keep up the good fight!

[@RockyOasis24]

You know they used foot snares to trap the only successful pqck to develop in Colorado. The male died from injury, and the female will never be released or see her pups!!!!!!

[@markrumfola9833]

You folks are Greatly Appreciated

[@RockyOasis24]

You know they used foot snares to trap the only successful pqck to develop in Colorado. The male died from injury, and the female will never be released or see her pups!!!!!!

[@starryeye6511]

May they thrive strongly, and keep the ecosystem humans have trashed in balance.💕

[@RockyOasis24]

You know they used foot snares to trap the only successful pqck to develop in Colorado. The male died from injury, and the female will never be released or see her pups!!!!!!

[@Mello-pc8wh]

Thank God these majestic animals are being released back where they belong FREE!!!!!

[@leighlofgren]

great job and we need to protect them

[@RockyOasis24]

You know they used foot snares to trap the only successful pqck to develop in Colorado. The male died from injury, and the female will never be released or see her pups!!!!!!

[@zacm6446]

What subspecies were these? Was it Canis Lupus Occidentalis? Is this a repeat of Wyoming’s wolf introduction program? They brought in a larger subspecies than what was historically in the region. And I use the word introduction, not re-introduction because the Canadian Timberwolf was “introduced” on top of the nearly extinct Rocky Mountain Timberwolf that was still alive in the Green River range in Wyoming. That bloodline of wolves either interbred with Occidentalis, or brought to full extinction.

[@FVanth]

This made my heart soar, and happy tears well up in my eyes, it was so encouraging. I remember when Yellowstone did this, I hope CPW learned from that success and will improve upon any mistakes they made, like not inadvertently creating a genetic island separate from the Canadian packs. My uncle is a subsistence hunter in the winter time in CO, and I hope he respect these wonderful beings and leaves them alone. God speed precious floofs.

[@zacm6446]

I wouldn’t really say they created a genetic island, it was The Canadian wolf that was introduced in Yellowstone. And since the inception of the introduction Project, those wolves have spread into Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California, and probably back up into Canada.

[@RockyOasis24]

You know they used foot snares to trap the only successful pqck to develop in Colorado. The male died from injury, and the female will never be released or see her pups!!!!!!

[@szeryf7983]

Piękne kochane cudowne oby żyły długo i szczęśliwie ❤🐺💚

[@ssa550i]

Very Cool !! SA

[@RockyOasis24]

I was 100% for and voted for the reintroduce wolf into Colorado. What I was not ready for was the ignorant parks and wildlife! The first pair of wolves to mate and develop a small pack has been trapped! They literally used lethal foot traps! Animals are known to chew their own foot off to get away! That is what happened to the male, and he died from injury!! I will now be voting against wolves in Colorado, for they are NOT SAFE!! The parks and wildlife are failures 100%. I will be emailing tribal members so they vote against Colorado getting wolves!!!

[@johnbarroll1120]

can they now survive the elements and inhuman colorado drivers?

[@sometimesiwander7146]

Still breaks my heart to see wild animals with human technology trackers wrapped around their necks. I just envision other predators grabbing hold of the trackers to thrash them around or the wolves getting them caught in a fence or tree etc or them getting too tight & choking them. I realise it’s for science and to help the species, but I still absolutely abhor that we have done this to so many different species of wild life on land, in the sea, & in the air. I’m beginning to think that maybe we are all just supposed to evolve and we should leave them alone. Species die & go extinct. It happens. And others mate & create new species like the polar/grizzly mixes and dolphin mixes etc. And it’s so upsetting to see this kind of very hands on stuff & yet next video they are just letting animals die bc “nature taking its course & we are not supposed to intervene” garbage.

[@RockyOasis24]

You know they used foot snares to trap the only successful pqck to develop in Colorado. The male died from injury, and the female will never be released or see her pups!!!!!!

[@Erica-os2mp]

What yall know about the wolf on the noggin?? Hhahahaha warm

[@cacampbell3654]

I don’t understand.