Overview
- In May, wildlife monitors reported several incidents near Oksbøl in which at least one pup born in 2025 approached people, dogs and summer cottages.
- The Municipality of Varde and Visit Vesterhavet have distributed flyers in tourist offices and holiday sites advising visitors to hold eye contact, make themselves look dominant and defend themselves if attacked.
- The Danish Centre for Environment and Energy said the approachable behaviour is unusual but that there is currently no immediate danger of attacks on people.
- National monitoring by the Natural History Museum of Aarhus recorded 49 wolves this year and mapped multiple territories including seven pairs of pups from 2025.
- The EU’s recent change from ‘strictly protected’ to ‘protected’ gives governments more legal room to manage wolf numbers and could prompt stepped-up local measures during the summer tourist season.