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After the genetic identification, on private initiative, of a canid discovered in the Mauges, the prefecture of Maine-et-Loire reminds that only the French Biodiversity Office (OFB) is authorized by the State to monitor the wolf in France.
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Here the head of the corpse of a large canid discovered in the Mauges in May 2021. It is one of its teeth which was subjected to DNA analysis in Belgium. | CO – YVES BOITEAU
Tuesday October 29, Le Courrier de l'Ouest relayed the results of a DNA analysis carried out by the Conservation Genetics Laboratory of the University of Liège (Belgium) on a corpse of a large canine discovered in May 2021 near Beaupréau, in the Mauges. Requested by an amateur naturalist, administrator of the Facebook page “Return of the wolf to Maine-et-Loire”, these results concluded with 100% certainty
that it was indeed a wolf, Johan Michaux, the laboratory director, confirmed to us.
Belgian analysis ignored
Requested from the evening of Monday October 28 by the editorial staff to comment…
