A novel socio-ecological approach to identifying suitable wolf habitats in human-dominated landscapes
(PHYSorg.com Biology)

About one third of the Swiss landscape offers suitable wolf habitat. Nonetheless, there is only a small fraction thereof where the wolf is tolerated by local communities. Those regions - characterized by both favourable environmental conditions and a positive attitude towards the wolf - are identified as candidate regions for the successful short to medium-term wolf expansion, according to a study conducted at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies of the University of Zurich