Though American wolves were recently—and controversially— the, wolves in Europe are healthy and on the comeback. France’s wolf population is , up from 180 to 200 in the Gray wolves in 1939 but have made a recovery following conservations efforts that began in southern France in the early 1990s. The current population is believed to have mirgrated from Italy, where a pocket of wolves escaped extinction, though some recent arrivals may have traveled north from Spain. For now, the human threat against wolves is low: since 1999, they have been a protected species under the .
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