Foxes, Wolves and Conservation in the Abruzzo Mountains

In 1973 the World Wildlife Fund established an enquiry into the status of the wolf, Canis lupus, in Italy. The wolf population numbered about 100 individuals confined to a few pockets in the central and southern Appenines (Zimen and Boitani, 1975). Approximately 25 wolves survive in the mountains between the Gran Sasso range in the north and the Parco National d’Abruzzo in the south.