{"id":25791,"date":"2024-02-01T15:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/aggiornamento-sui-lupi-recuperati-a-genova-e-savona-e-rilasciati-con-radiocollare-gps\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:03:44","slug":"aggiornamento-sui-lupi-recuperati-a-genova-e-savona-e-rilasciati-con-radiocollare-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/aggiornamento-sui-lupi-recuperati-a-genova-e-savona-e-rilasciati-con-radiocollare-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on wolves recovered in Genoa and Savona and released with GPS radio collars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the morning of 24 January, the Regione Liguria environmental wildlife monitoring unit was alerted to the presence of an alleged wolf in the gardens of the former &#8216;Pastorino&#8217; hospital in Genoa Bolzaneto, which houses various ASL 3 Genovese facilities open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25768\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/aggiornamento-sui-lupi-recuperati-a-genova-e-savona-e-rilasciati-con-radiocollare-gps\/sito-dintervento\/\" class=\"wp-image-25769\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento-640x395.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento-1200x740.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Sito-dintervento.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">The place where the wolf found itself trapped and was rescued by the Liguria Region environmental wildlife monitoring unit. Source: Google Maps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once on site, the operators confirmed that it was<strong> an adult wolf, visibly frightened and looking for a way out. <\/strong>Most probably during the night, the animal had descended into the valley from the wooded areas above the A7 motorway, seeking refuge from the traffic in the gardens surrounding the health facility. With the help of the ASL 3 veterinarians, the animal was then sedated and placed in a transport cage at a veterinary practice to ascertain its physical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"574\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Cattura.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25773\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Cattura.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/aggiornamento-sui-lupi-recuperati-a-genova-e-savona-e-rilasciati-con-radiocollare-gps\/cattura-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-25774\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Cattura.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Cattura-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 574px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">A frame of the video circulated on social media showing the animal in the courtyard of the building in Genoa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wolf, an adult male about 2 years old and weighing about 30 kg, <strong>was fitted with a GPS collar and immediately released in the high hills of the Genoa area.<\/strong> Thanks to the GPS collar, it will therefore be possible to monitor its movements and check whether it belongs to herds in the area. Already in the morning after the release, the movement data confirmed the success of the operations: the wolf moved westwards, in an impervious and wild area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaking of movement data, the monitoring of the wolf recovered in March 2023 in via Firenze in Savona continues,<\/strong> we talked about it<strong> <a aria-label=\"QUI. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lifewolfalpseu\/posts\/pfbid02Rq85pGTrwYHTEz6WNp9E2HuitNpRz57rh9Ya4vBhUzBbXRjjtJMZRXPgr8kHkp6xl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">HERE.<\/a> <\/strong>The wolf, a male of about 3 years old, <strong>was released into the wild, equipped with a GPS radio-collar in July 2023, after recovering from a compound fracture of the right femur suffered in the fall. Since then, the animal has continued to move, first going west, crossing into France, and then returning to Italy on the Piedmont side.<\/strong> The wolf then returned almost to the point of release and then back again towards the west. It is currently in Piedmont, but continues to move. An extremely interesting fact is that the animal, captured in an urban context (it had been trapped inside a small courtyard, probably by falling from an overhanging roof), <strong>once released, no longer showed any tendency to frequent man-made environments, keeping in its movements as much as possible in wild areas and at high altitudes, feeding on wildlife<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24-1024x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"25778\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/aggiornamento-sui-lupi-recuperati-a-genova-e-savona-e-rilasciati-con-radiocollare-gps\/pos-elwood-al-31-01-24\/\" class=\"wp-image-25779\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24-1024x397.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24-768x298.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24-1536x596.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24-640x248.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24-1200x466.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Pos-Elwood-al-31.01.24.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Map showing the movements made by the wolf recovered in Savona and released with GPS collar in July 2023. Source: Regione Liguria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This confirms the fact that <strong>wolves found within an urban environment,<\/strong> perhaps in distress like these two males recovered in Savona and Genoa, <strong>are not necessarily confidant or urban animals, but may have ended up accidentally trapped there in the course of their explorations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of 24 January, the Regione Liguria environmental wildlife monitoring unit was alerted to the presence of an alleged wolf in the gardens of the former &#8216;Pastorino&#8217; hospital in Genoa Bolzaneto, which houses various ASL 3 Genovese facilities open to the public. Once on site, the operators confirmed that it was an adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":25785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,104,45,512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-communication","category-monitoring","category-lupi-urbani-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25796,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25791\/revisions\/25796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}