Wolves Return to Czech Podyji National Park After More Than a Century

Wolves Return to Czech Podyji National Park After More Than a Century

Grey wolves have returned to the Znojmo region and the Podyji National Park, adjacent to Austria’s Thayatal National Park, after more than 100 years, the park’s administration announced on its website yesterday. The grey wolf is the largest canid that historically inhabited the entire Czech territory. Together with the lynx and the brown bear, it is among the original species of local fauna. As a result of intensive human persecution, deforestat…

The common wolf is the largest canine animal that historically inhabited the entire territory of the Czech Republic. Together with the islander lynx and the brown bear, they belong to the native species of the local fauna. As a result of intense persecution, deforestation of the landscape and the expansion of human settlements, the wolf was exterminated in the Czech territory at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. However, in recent years, …

Znojmo - The common wolf returns to Znojmo and the Podyjí National Park after more than a hundred years. It has been spotted in the locality repeatedly in the last few years and also in recent times. The park administration reported about this today on its website.