The photo reached us this Friday afternoon. The photo was taken that very morning, at the crack of dawn (at 5:30 a.m.) on the departmental road linking Écot and Villars-sous-Écot. A motorist came across an animal that looked like a wolf. “We notice the “nets” [N.D.L.R. : lignes] on the front of the forelimbs, small ears, a lip mask. A priori, yes, it is a wolf,” says Gilles Moyne, director of the Athenas wildlife conservation center, based in L’Étoile, in the Jura.
In itself, nothing surprising. The presence of the animal in the region is attested and has given rise to numerous controversies (opposing defenders and breeders) then to a debate orchestrated by the regional prefect (in April) following the attacks attributed to it. . The population is increasing. In France, 1104 individuals are recorded.
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Members of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) to whom the photos were also sent express doubts. “We are not sure of the identification. We are hesitant with a Czech wolfdog given the animal’s behavior; it doesn’t seem very shy. The criteria do not match the wolf, but the resemblance is there,” comments Ségolène Travichon, deputy director at the regional level. Specialists from the French Biodiversity Observatory (OFB) did not respond to our calls. The director of Athenas reports that a wolf was seen three days ago, 40 km further south: “It is plausible that it is the same one, a dispersing subadult [N.D.L.R. : qui voyage seul]which would explain the distance traveled […] The departmental road network is very dense in Franche-Comté, the probability of crossing very high.” A little over three years ago, a wolf was reported in Saint-Hippolyte.
