Please note: The Wolf Conservation Center is only open to registered guests during scheduled programs. Please refer to our Program Calendar for a list of upcoming events.
Per CDC guidelines, any unvaccinated individuals are recommended to wear a face covering while outdoors at the WCC. Individuals wishing to enter the WCC's gift shop, regardless of vaccination status, are required to wear a face covering.
Visit the Wolf Conservation Center
Come meet the wolves! We do not allow drop-in visitors, so please sign up for one of our programs:
Photography Sessions
Enjoy the opportunity to photograph some of the WCC's wolves from unique vantage points!
Virtual Programs
After School Programs
Take a walk on the wild side and give the young animal lover in your family a chance to thrive among wolves and other woodland critters!
Sleeping with Wolves
Camp out overnight with the 40+ wolves that call the WCC home! With wolves, vultures, and open skies, we're New York's version of Yellowstone!
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Latest News & Research
It’s Black Wolf Friday!
Share your love for wolves this holiday season with gifts that give back to the wolves! Find wonderfully wild items for people of all ages in the Wolf Conservation Center online store. Are you looking for the perfect gift for the wolf enthusiast in your life? Symbolically adopt one of the 33 wolves in our…
Thank You, Wolves
On this Thanksgiving day, we give our thanks to wolves – may they remind us of the most important things in life. Thank you to Zephyr, Alawa, and Nikai, the WCC’s gray wolves who serve as teachers and representatives – through them, a global audience learns about and appreciates their wild kin. Thank you to…
Red Wolf Ben Takes on Critical Role in Red Wolf Recovery
Red wolf Ben, born at the Wolf Conservation Center in 2018, has embarked on an exciting adventure – the three year old has moved to Western North Carolina Nature Center (WNCNC) and could father pups this winter! Ben, also known as M2235, was born to parents Charlotte and Jack in 2018 and, along with his…
Washington Officials Issue Kill Orders Targeting New Wolf Family to Protect Cows
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Director Kelly Susewind issued a kill order for up to two wolves from “an area of new wolf pack activity north of the Touchet pack territory and west of the Tucannon pack territory in southeast Washington’s Columbia County.” Officials believe there are four adults and four pups in this pack.…
Feds Abandon Controversial Management Plan For Endangered Red Wolves
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that they are withdrawing their 2018 plan for managing the last wild red wolves – a single population in eastern North Carolina consisting of just eight known (radio-collared) individuals. The rule, proposed by USFWS three years ago, aimed to reduce the existing five-county 1.7 million-acre Red Wolf Recovery…
Oregon Issues Another Kill Order for Wolf to Protect Cows
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) issued another kill permit to a livestock producer after a family of wolves attacked one of their calves. The family of wolves, referred to as the OR30 Wolves, reside in the Mt Emily Unit of Oregon but aren’t classified as a pack because there are only three wolves;…
Mexican Gray Wolf “Anubis” Returns to Northern Arizona
For immediate release October 27, 2021 Media contacts: Emily Renn, Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project (928)202-1325; emily@gcwolfrecovery.org Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project (520)623-1878; greta@westernwatersheds.org Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club – Grand Canyon Chapter ((602) 253-8633; sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org Erin Hunt, Lobos of the Southwest (928)421-0187; erin@mexicanwolves.org Maggie Howell, Wolf Conservation Center (914)763-2373; maggie@nywolf.org FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Wandering Mexican…
Five Endangered Mexican Gray Wolves Found Dead, Two More Presumed Dead
The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) announced in the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program Quarterly Update that five endangered Mexican gray wolves were found dead in Arizona and New Mexico in the third quarter of 2021. The incidents are under investigation. The dead wolves include the remaining two members of the Cerro Trigo wolf pack, now considered…
Wolf Conservation Center Red Wolf Embarks on Wild Adventure, Flies to St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge
Most red wolves born in captivity spend their lives there, but one lucky red wolf from the Wolf Conservation Center is destined for a semi-wild life! On Thursday, red wolf Tom (M2208) left his home at the WCC in South Salem, New York, bound for St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) off the coast of…
Oregon Officials Use Wolf Mother to Betray Her Family, Slaughter Three Wolf Pups to Protect Cows
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) officials announced that they killed the three youngest members of the Lookout Mt pack to protect cows. The wolves, a yearling and two six-month old pups, were shot from a helicopter. The Lookout Mt pack, once numbering 11 wolves, has been reduced to at most three wolves –…