A new male wolf has been identified in the Haut-Languedoc regional natural park, straddling the Tarn and the Hérault.
It was the French Office for Biodiversity which carried out the analyzes and made this discovery, reports France 3.
As early as this winter, the Office's large predators unit had discovered a series of clues suggesting the presence of an individual never previously identified, between two summits of the natural park, Somail and Caroux.
Confirmation that it was indeed a new male wolf was provided by a urine sample collected in early January in Anglès, a town located in the Tarn, on the border with Hérault.
Another male in the area
Before that, a first wolf had already been spotted in the area in 2016, recalls France 3. Analyzes carried out last December showed that the animal was still in this area.
If the animals are still present at the end of winter 2022, the area could be declared an “area of permanent presence”, a term which characterizes the places where wolves are installed, but are not in packs and where reproduction does not occur. is therefore not identified.
The south of the Larzac plateau, still in the Hérault, is also also monitored because several signs show the presence of another wolf.
He could even be involved in cases of predation on herds.
In 2020, 580 wolves were counted in total in the country.
The authorities authorized the "removal" of 110 of them.
