The journey of Slavc, the Slovenian wolf that helped repopulate northeastern Italy after a century of absence. This map charts an extraordinary natural comeback story. In late 2011, a GPS-collared wolf named Slavc began a journey of roughly 1,200 miles from Slovenia into northeastern Italy, crossing motorways, rivers by swimming, and alpine passes under deep snow. He eventually reached Lessinia, a region where wolves had been extinct for over a century, and paired with an Italian female nicknamed Juliet. Their offspring marked the first wolf pack in the area in generations, and their descendants have since helped repopulate the eastern Alps, contributing to the wider recovery of wolves in Europe.