The droppings are formal, a new wolf has roamed well in Ariège

A gray wolf in France in 2015. -

The suspicion was strong, it has just turned into certainty.

The animal observed on February 19, 2020 in the Ariège town of Mérens-les-Vals, on the border with Andorra, was indeed a wolf.

The prefecture indicates this Thursday that "the genetic analysis of two urine samples and a sample of feces" confirms the observation made this winter by a member of the wolf monitoring network.

Unknown to the battalion

The “visitor” is a male wolf “of Italian-alpine lineage” but he “has not been listed in the species database”.

The accident occurred in Mérens-les-Vals, in Haute-Ariège.

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This is the second authenticated passage of a wolf in Ariège.

The first case appeared on March 27, 2019 in the Razès sector, an area further north, on the border with Aude, where specialists from the French Biodiversity Office expected to detect one day or the other the presence of a wolf and where they had placed cameras.

The Ariégeois breeders, already very upset against the presence of bears in their mountains, will have to redouble their vigilance.

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