Wolves roaming wild in Denmark for first time in 200 years By analysing DNA traces they were able to show that a particular male wolf was detected seven times in the same area in 2013. Wolves are considered to have settled in an area if they are seen there twice in six months. "That is most certainly the case with this wolf, which means we can say that we have our first evidence that the wolf is settled in Denmark," Liselotte Wesley Andersen, a senior researcher at Aarhus University, told Denmark's national broadcaster, DR. Wolves once roamed across Europe, before their numbers were heavily depleted in the 19th century. They have been making a recovery since the 1950s, and wild populations have re-established themselves in a number of countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden. When a wolf was spotted in Denmark in 2012, it was the first sighting since 1813. But researchers caution that so far they have only found DNA traces of male wolves resident in Denmark, and have not been able to locate any traces of females or cubs, despite numerous claims of sightings of a wolf pack. "We're hoping for a snowy winter so wolf tracks can lead us to further documented finds," Thomas Secher Jensen, a senior researcher with the Natural History Museum, told DR.