Wolves roam between Switzerland and France
Wolves use their habitat independently of national borders. Monitoring cross-border packs is challenging, but provides interesting insights.
A male and a female wolf who have established packs in the Valais Chablais and the Vaud Jura respectively have immigrated from France.
This is shown by a study by the Kora Foundation, which was able to analyse genetic material from two Swiss wolves and compare it with French samples.
The research shows that predators roam between Switzerland and France, as Kora reported.
For example, the male of the Chablais pack (M88) was already identified during French genetic monitoring in January/February 2018 in the Haute Maurienne pack (Savoie department), most likely his place of birth. The male M88 founded the pack in the Valais Chablais together with the female F43 in 2019.
The female F1 of the Marchairuz pack in the Vaud Jura was first identified in December 2016 in Premanon on the French side, near the La Dôle – St. Cergue region in Switzerland. Together with the male M95, she founded the Marchairuz pack in 2019.
The analysis of the various samples was carried out by the Laboratory of Conservation Biology at the University of Lausanne and the Antagene laboratory, a partner of the French Office for Biodiversity.
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