The wolves won't pay anything to manage the herds, and they cost the state in terms of livestock loss.

But if livestock loss is not the real issue, what exactly has made wolf restoration such a complicated, divisive and expensive effort?

Major livestock losses have been attributed to the plant in Queensland.

Colorado is one of the few states to reimburse livestock losses caused by bears.

They claimed $199,228.24 in property damage and $61,821.13 in livestock losses.

Pay us for our livestock losses and we'll stop killing lions, is what they were saying.

The agriculture ministry predicted that livestock losses might reach 4 million before the end of winter.

The local ranchers reported their livestock losses as predator losses.

Local ranchers hated these predators because of livestock losses, but Leopold came to respect the animals.

Besides livestock losses, there is also a need to reduce human-elephant conflicts around water resources.