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Climate change worries Professor Andrzej Bereszynski of the Poznan Agriculture Academy, who runs a 30-year-old wolf sanctuary.

He fears that global warming could take a new toll on the elusive predator — almost hunted to death across much of Europe.

“Warming of the fragments of the globe where wolves still survive will surely dramatically influence their life,” said Bereszynski.

International Wolf Center Intermediate Wolf Information

The 1992 Eastern Timber Wolf Recovery Plan established a population goal for Minnesota of 1,251 to 1,400 wolves by the year 2000. By the early 1980s, Minnesota had already reached that goal and by the late-1990s had nearly doubled that number. With the recovery of the wolf populations in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may soon reclassify the wolf in these populations