Overview
- The province is preparing a kill permit for wolf GW4890m and is working to locate the animal, which may be ranging into Friesland as officials coordinate across provinces.
- DNA analysis ties the same wolf to four of five recent sheep attacks behind approved fences near Beilen, with at least fifteen animals reported dead.
- GW4890m was first registered by BIJ12 in 2025 as a descendant of the Drents-Friese Wold pack and earlier killed eighteen sheep in Makkinga before approved fencing was in place.
- Provincial rules under the wolvenplan allow lethal removal after repeated fence breaches, and Drenthe notes trials with extra wire, flash lights, flutter tape, and cameras, with no new attacks reported since those measures were added.
- The move comes as a wolf was shot last week on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug pending DNA confirmation of its identity and as a court in Arnhem reviews a request to block an extension of a Gelderland shooting permit for a different wolf.