The beautiful Norwegian wolf breed is officially extinct

The beautiful wolf breed is officially extinct, caused by humans

New research led by Professor Hans Stenøien, Director of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Museum (NTNU) has officially documented the extinction of the wild Norwegian wolf breed. 

According to the study, although there are still around 400 wolves living on the border between Norway and Sweden today, DNA analysis shows that they are not native Norwegian wolves, but wolves from Finland, according to the study. Lan emigrated to.

The cause of the extinction of this wolf breed is believed to be that humans, when we appeared, built an agriculture based on livestock.

As wild wolves regularly slaughter sheep and sometimes threaten human life, the indigenous people immediately consider them to be evil animals, thinking that they need to be exterminated.

Wolves have since become the target of hunting not only for self-defense, but also for their meat, as well as their fur used to make clothes and scarves.

As a result, by 1970, humans had wiped out the original wolf population in the wild on the Norwegian border. For 10 years, not a single wolf appeared in the area between Norway and Sweden.

Human hunting activities have wiped out the primitive wolf population in the wild on the Norwegian border

According to a 2019 report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the rate of extinction of plant and animal species on Earth is currently at a terrible level, 1,000 times higher than before the human period. who appeared.

Over the past four decades, wildlife populations have decreased by 58% due to human activities. This reduction has increased to 67% by 2020.

It is estimated that in the next 50 - 100 years, this rate can be up to 10,000 times higher than the period before the presence of humans, corresponding to more than 1 million species of plants and animals will become extinct.

Among the factors affecting the survival of organisms, severe habitat loss is at the top of the list.

The forests and grasslands, which used to be shelters for thousands of animals, now have to give way to agricultural and forestry production, mining, or urban development.

"Land conflict between humans and other animals is at the core of the environmental challenges we face," said Professor Mercedes Bustamante of the University of Brasilia (Brazil). "The last time we saw such a scene was 66 million years ago, when a meteorite fell to Earth."