There have been a number of reports of wolf sightings in the Krkonoše Mountains over the past few weeks, either in small packs or lone individuals. As the wolf population has steadily grown and become more settled there since they first began returning to the area in 2018, encounters between wolves and humans will only continue to become more and more commonplace.
Miroslav Kutal of Brno’s Mendel University is the Czech coordinator for the new international LIFE WILD WOLF project. Involving eight European countries, the project aims to understand human-wolf interactions in the European cultural landscape and prevent potential critical situations from occurring by developing, testing and evaluating procedures for managing encounters between wolves and humans. I spoke to him about the project and what the return of wolves to Czechia means for us.
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Author: Anna Fodor