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Le Matin, Fre - Five to 10 wolves are in four parts of canton Valais, says expert Raphaël Arlettaz. A wolf killed some 30 sheep when it attacked a herd at the end of September in Chablais, Valais. The canton will decide by the end of this week if it is going to authorize hunters and farmers to shoot wolves in the area. An authorization is currently out to shoot another wolf in the Conches region at the end of the Rhone Valley, where a herd was attacked earlier this year. DNA studies recently enabled experts to determine that a wolf killed five years ago was not the one that had attacked a herd at that time, and to draw a clearer picture of the number of wolves in the area. (continue reading)→