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Agence France-Presse

The first Indian grey wolf to be seen in Bangladesh in eight decades has been beaten to death by farmers after preying on their livestock, wildlife experts said on Sunday.
The grey wolf was last seen in Bangladesh in 1949, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.


Locals in a town near the Sundarbans – the world’s biggest mangrove forest that straddles India and Bangladesh – captured and killed the wolf because it attacked their livestock.
“With the images we confirmed that the animal is an Indian grey wolf,” said Y.V Jhala of the Wildlife Institute of India.
There are still about 3,000 of the animals in India, some in captivity, but they disappeared from their habitat in north and northwest Bangladesh in the 1940s, he said.

Anwarul Islam, a zoologist at Dhaka University, collected DNA samples from the animal as his team looks for signs of more Indian grey wolves in the region.
“It’s sad it was beaten to death. We need to conduct further investigations to find whether it travelled in a pack,” said Islam.
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The wolf was killed in early June but was only identified when photos of its corpse were sent to experts.
A host of animals – including the striped hyena, swamp deer and black buck – have disappeared from Bangladesh over in recent decades.


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A Bangladeshi man measuring the corpse of an Indian grey wolf, the first to be seen in the region in eight decades, at Taltali town near the Sundarbans mangrove forest. Photo: Barguna District Administrator’s Office/AFP

Royalty-free stock photo ID: 1321501895The Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) is a subspecies of grey wolf that ranges from Southwest Asia to the Indian Subcontinent. Indian wolves are the largest species of canid found in India. Picture by Shutterstock.

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A French farmer stands near hundreds of sheep during a protest against the government's “Plan loup” (wolf project) which protects wolves which the farmers blame for livestock deaths and financial losses, in Lyon, France, on October 9, 2017. Photo: Reuters

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 27, 2017 shows Pascal Gomes of Pastoraloup, one of a network of volunteers who try to protect flock of sheep from wolf attacks, watches the flock at dusk near Prads-Haute-Bleone in the French Alps. At nightfall, Pascal Gomez, a computer scientist on sabbatical leave, and an animal photographer, watches over the 650 ewes he is in charge of in the mountain pasture in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. His objective: to protect them from the wolf, and to help re-establish the dialogue between the "pro" and "anti-" wolf camp. "My real conviction is that even if we killed all the wolves, they would return," said Gomez, as he helps a shepherd watch his flock at night for 10 days, a program set up by Ferus, an animal protection association. / AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT

A French farmer stands near hundreds of sheep during a protest against the government's "Plan loup" (wolf project) which protects wolves which the farmers blame for livestock deaths and financial losses, in Lyon, France, October 9, 2017. Placard reads, "In 2015 wolves killed 9,000 domesticated animals in France". REUTERS/Robert Pratta

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The animal was killed in early June but only identified when photos of its corpse were sent to experts


The animal was killed in early June but only identified when photos of its corpse were sent to experts.


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First Indian grey wolf to be spotted in Bangladesh for decades gets beaten to death by farmers

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}The animal was killed in early June but only identified when photos of its corpse were sent to experts

The animal was killed in early June but only identified when photos of its corpse were sent to experts