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, ...

Colorado’s wolf reintroduction plan has become one of the most emotionally charged wildlife debates in the American West. While some residents celebrate wolves as an ecological victory decades in the ...

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 ...

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.

Across North America, mountain lions, bears and gray wolves have made a remarkable comeback over the last 50 years. Once nearly exterminated, these animals have been recovering their populations and ...