Road to Nowhere: Highways Pose Existential Threat to Wolverines

[UngulateNerd92]

Roads can be a danger for wildlife, but new research shows they’re particularly bad news for a species already facing declines.

This is not a good time to be a wolverine.

The infamously scrappy, snow-adapted mustelid — a relation of badgers, martens and otters — is barely hanging on in the contiguous United States, where its population has dipped to mere hundreds. Decades of habitat loss and trapping reduced the wolverine’s numbers, and now diminishing snowpack from climate change is adding insult to injury.

Road to Nowhere: Highways Pose Existential Threat to Wolverines • The Revelator

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

Interesting that Anthony Clevenger, one of the researchers involved in this study, also studied the Cantabrian brown bear in Northern Spain for many years.

I wonder whether these same anthropogenic conditions are causing the decline of the wolverine across Eurasia.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

Interesting that Anthony Clevenger, one of the researchers involved in this study, also studied the Cantabrian brown bear in Northern Spain for many years.

I wonder whether these same anthropogenic conditions are causing the decline of the wolverine across Eurasia.

This wouldn't surprise me... I would almost guarantee that this would be a factor in their decline.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

This wouldn't surprise me... I would almost guarantee that this would be a factor in their decline.

I wonder if there are any long term studies into this across the region ?

Perhaps in Scandinavia and Finland but I somehow doubt that there are in the Baltic countries, Russia , Mongolia or China etc.