Giorgos Giannatos & Thodoros Kominos, GREECE

3rd 3rd Colloquium the 3rd World Jackal Day, and Three ECHOES in Danube Delta

Cluj-Napoca, Institutul de Cercetari Biologice - UBB,

Date: April 9th, 2025

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Distribution change of golden jackal in Greece

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an overview

• Three wild species (i.e. wolf, golden jackal and red fox)

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• “vermin” status since 1992 persecuted by all means, including systematic poisoning with strychnine until mid ‘80s

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• since lifting of ”vermin” status, the populations of these canids start to rebound and expanded.

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• Wolf:

- expanded since mid-1980s. Widespread in all continental Greece / historic disstribution

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• Jackal:

- expanded since late 1990s and early 21st century/ Widespread in all continental Greece out of historic distribution

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Canids in Greece

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Jackal: early ’70s

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jackal in Greece

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jackal: 00s

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Jackal: 2014

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jackal in Greece

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jackal: 2019

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Jackal: 2024. Kominos et al. under publ.

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jackal in Greece

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Jackal: 2025. upcoming habitat directive report under publ.

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jackal in Greece

Jackal & livestock farms

50% of locations for 4 jackals in 50m of the livestock at night

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