2 min read Spain scraps wolves' protected status in rural north 1 of 2 FILE PHOTO: An Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) exercises at Basondo Animal Refuge in Kortezubi ...

Canis lupus signatus is a subspecies known by the common name Iberian wolf, distributed over parts of northwestern Spain and northern Portugal, specifically to the northwestern Iberian Peninsula.

The habitat of the Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) varies greatly across the Iberian Peninsula and its diet revolves around what is available, ranging from wild animals to domestic waste.

Declared a protected area in 1979, the plateaus, mountain ranges and valleys of Montesinho in northern Portugal have long been a refuge for the Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus), an endangered ...

The wolves, however, are not the native Spanish species - Canis lupus signatus - prevalent over the rest of the Iberian Peninsula but an Italian invader, according to a study published in this ...

The habitat of the Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) varies greatly across the Iberian Peninsula and its diet revolves around what is available, ranging from wild animals to domestic waste.

Some 300 Iberian wolves (Canis lupus signatus - a slightly smaller subspecies of the European grey wolf) survive in the northern and central highlands of Portugal.

The Picos de Europa Biosphere Reserve covers an area of 64,660 hectares and represents some of the highest montane systems of the large Gran Cantabrica range.