The country’s communist regime organised a vast wolf cull in the 1960s in response to the perceived danger they posed, paying residents for every animal shot dead.
Locals killed off the park‘s last wolf pack in 1964.
Officials added the wolf to the country’s list of endangered species in the 1990s following protests from ecologists and animal rights activists, including former French movie star Brigitte Bardot.
The move helped reinstate their population in certain areas, including the mountainous region of Bieszczady in the south-east.