From Alps to Calabria, the first coordinated plan of national monitoring for wolves

From October 2020 to March 2021, approximately 1,000 cells of ten square kilometers will be patrolled throughout the country.

For the first time since the wolf was protected, national institutions join forces to mapping the distribution and consistency simultaneously from the Alps to Calabria, using sampling designs and advanced standardized protocols, developed by ISPRA.

The Italian Ministry of the Environment has given a mandate to ISPRA with the aim to produce an updated estimate of the distribution and consistency of the wolf at national level. To respond to this ambitious challenge, ISPRA has organized a highly specialized working group, which involves zoologists and geneticists, and has activated a cooperation with Federparchi Europarc Italia (the Italian Federation of Parks and Natural Reserves) and with the LIFE WolfAlps-EU project.