Italy’s wolf population now numbers 3,000-3,500; at the beginning of the 1970s, they were nearing extinction in the country.

For millennia, humans have feared and hated wolves. In recent memory, we've gunned them down to near extinction. Now conservation efforts in the United States and Europe are trying to bring them back.

A wildlife group in the national parks of Italy's Abruzzo – a vast green area known as the "lungs" of Europe - is offering an unusual kind of tourism: tracking wolves. It's part of an effort these ...