For the man who took the photo, posted on Facebook, there was no doubt: it was a wolf he had seen near Blaru, a town in Yvelines bordering Eure (75 km northwest from Paris).

Certain of his doing, he contacted the French Office for Biodiversity, which came to collect DNA traces according to France Bleu Paris.

“We have confirmed the gray wolf identification in this image.

For the moment, we do not have his trace, we simply have an image ”, specified Nicolas Jean, deputy director of the OFB.

This lonely wolf moves around a lot to find new territory.

A habitual behavior in the fall, which is the season of the "wolf dispersal."

They will leave their foster packs to seek new territory and hope to start a family, ”explains Nicolas Jean to France Bleu Paris.

A goat and a sheep attacked?

Officially, the wolf has not been present in Ile-de-France for 30 years, even if the OFB attests to its presence in nearby departments.

The Wolf Observatory collective reports for its part having detected wolves in Seine-et-Marne in 2014, in Val-d'Oise and Yvelines in 2017. The wolf observed in Blaru could also still go up the valley. from the Seine: a resident of a hamlet near Montfort-l'Amaury, 50 km from Blaru, found a dead goat and sheep in a field on November 19.

Having noticed traces of fangs, he contacted the gendarmerie and hopes for an investigation by the OFB.

But the institution lacks resources and cannot always travel.

The OFB has counted 12,000 animals attacked by the wolf since its return to the natural environment thirty years ago, "mainly sheep, goats, some cattle which have been the subject of compensation under the Wolf Action Plan" Nicolas Jean tells France Bleu Paris.

But no attempt to attack the man has been recorded.

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