Humans have always had an emotional relationship with predators. We both revere and demonize them. We buy more than 100 million teddy bears annually for our children, while 50,000 real bears are ...

Fear of the fabled ‘big bad wolf’ has dominated the public perception of wolves for millennia and strongly influences current debates concerning human-wildlife conflict. Humans both fear wolves and, ...

A grey wolf prowls through Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth Hot Springs in Montana. A group of 66 wolves was reintroduced to Idaho and Yellowstone in the late 1990s. They now total 2,800 ...

Alex Jensen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Dr. Middleton and Dr. Brashares are professors of environmental science, policy and management at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Orrick is the director of the California Wolf Project.

Recently, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced it had made the difficult decision to kill four members of one of the state’s 10 known wolf packs in an area just north of Lake Tahoe ...