Wolf

Crying wolf to save livestock and their predator

Using a powerful torch, Aliki Buhayer-Mach momentarily drenches a nearby mountain top in light, straining to see if wolves are lurking in the shadows.

If the predator were to get past the electric wires stretched around this high-altitude pasture in the Swiss Alps, the 57-year-old biologist knows "it would be a massacre."

The wolves are back at Mt. Parnitha after fifty years!

After a 50-year hiatus, the wolves have returned to national Mount Parnitha, the densely forested mountain range north of Athens. The wolf’s reappearance to the area is documented by the environmental organisation Kallisto.

Confirmation came through the use of an automatic infrared photo that remained active for six months. The machine recorded a pack of 7-8 wolves in the region.