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Ottawa What you can do Toronto If you see an Eastern Wolf in or around La Mauricie National Park, please report your observation to La Mauricie NP staff: [email protected] or 1-888-773-8888 Eastern Wolf For more information, please visit: www.pc.gc.ca/speciesatrisk Canada www.sararegistry.gc.ca Canis lupus lycaon

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La Mauricie National Park Photos: © Parks Canada Agency Description Population What Parks Canada is doing Eastern Wolves are a subspecies of the Litters of five or six pups are born in the den after a nine- Eastern Wolves are found mainly in southeastern La Mauricie National Park conducted a major study on week gestation. The pups don’t emerge until they are Ontario and southwestern Quebec. Their range is about eastern wolf ecology in partnership with the Université Grey Wolf. They have a fawn-coloured about two weeks old, but the pack stays nearby for the 210,000 square kilometres - only 42 per cent of what de Sherbrooke. The movements of 16 radio-collared first month. Sometimes another member of the pack it once was. There are some 2,000 Eastern Wolves in wolves were studied. These wolves were part of four pelt with black on the back and sides looks after the pups while their parents go hunting. Canada, of which 1,000 are breeding adults divided different packs that lived in the park and the region. By fall, the pups travel with the pack. Wolves use howls into 500 packs. The population has stayed fairly stable The results confirmed that there’s enough prey and and reddish behind the ears. They stand to communicate. Members of a pack may sit down and over the past decade, but some populations are being habitat to meet the needs of the two wolf packs howl at the site where the group meets. It could be a over-hunted. in the park and even allow for population growth. about 80 centimetres at the shoulders way to warn away other packs from their territory or, Eastern Wolves disappeared from the Maritimes more Yet, outside the park they are trapped or shot at a perhaps, a joyous celebration. Eastern Wolves prey on than 100 years ago. La Mauricie National Park is the rate of about 32 per cent, which will likely result in a and weigh 20 to 40 kilograms. Wolves white-tailed deer, moose and beaver. This helps to keep most easterly Canadian national park to have a wolf declining population. Their survival, therefore, depends the populations of these species at levels that the local pack. Two packs with 5 to 10 members each roam the on regional collaboration. Some of the steps that Parks have a well-organized social structure environment can sustain. Packs of wolves work hard for park and surrounding area. Their territories range from Canada is taking include: their food. They may chase 10 large but only 500 to 700 square kilometres. Since this is bigger than that centres on a dominant male and a manage to kill one. 536-square-kilometre La Mauricie, the park is only part developing a conservation strategy for of their territory. The Canada National Parks Act protects 1 protecting Eastern Wolves inside and outside dominant female. They breed once a year, Threats them inside the park, but they’re vulnerable to being the park; hunted and trapped once they leave its boundaries.

usually in March or April. They generally The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife The wolf’s presence in the park has become more creating a public awareness program about the importance of wolves to the region’s in Canada listed the Eastern Wolf as a subspecies sporadic in recent years. 2 make their den either in an old pine of special concern in May 2001 because it’s so forest ecosystems; vulnerable to human activity. Threats to these timid stump or rock crevice or they dig one in a wolves include: Habitat and conservation monitoring the two wolf packs within the park to understand how they use their habitat • hunting and trapping outside the parks Eastern Wolves need large areas of deciduous, 3 gravel ridge created by glacial meltwater. inside and outside the park and to determine • death by road traffic coniferous or mixed forests. It’s protected by Quebec’s the long-term impact of human activity on • disturbance from recreational activities Act Respecting the Conservation and Development of wolf populations; • industrial, agricultural and residential developments Wildlife, the Canada National Parks Act and Ontario’s Fish • the transformation of the forest ecosystem due and Wildlife Conservation Act. In 2004, the eastern wolf raising awareness among local communities to agriculture and urbanization oss of habitat was included on the list of Species at Risk in Ontario 4 and visitors through its Eastern Wolf education because of agriculture, logging with a status of Special Concern. program that includes exhibits, speakers, a poster, and urbanization. mural, brochure and educational kit.