During October 2024, a trapping team consisting of experts from the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and the Šumava National Park Administration managed to capture and fit 3 more wolves with telemetry collars. These are two adult females and one approximately six-month-old male. Based on already completed DNA analysis the two wolves come from Borová Lada territory, one equiped adult female is not related to any of the Šumava packs. Currently, there are 6 wolves tracked for now in total, also due to those installed last year. The wolves move in the territory of both states - the Czech Republic and Bavaria/Germany. This allows experts from the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and the Šumava and Bavarian Forest National Parks to observe the spatial behaviour of wolves, the formation and delineation of territories throughout the project area. Due to collars, the scientists can also focus on studying the prey of these collared individuals.
The trapping is part of the project "Ecological impacts of wolf return to the Šumava/Bavarian Forest ecosystem" of the Czech University of Agriculture in Prague and the administrations of the Šumava and Bavarian Forest National Parks. The project is co-financed by the European Union from the Interreg Bavaria-Czech Republic 2021-2027 programme.
