Month: September 2017

Photo: Rebecca Bose and a Mexican wolf pup Various wildlife professionals are descending upon Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University this weekend for their annual WAZE Symposium, dedicated to providing veterinary students with access to the most current information regarding the medicine and conservation of wildlife, aquatic, zoo and exotic species. The WCC’s…

Endangered U.S. Wolf Denied New Habitat, As Critics Charge That Politics Trumped Science An updated recovery plan for the critically endangered Mexican gray wolf, released by U.S. Fish and Wildlife this summer, calls for restricting their habitat to areas south of Interstate 40 in Arizona and New Mexico and certain areas of Northern Mexico. This…

For the first time since 2013, licensed wolf hunting will take place in Wyoming; the season starts this Sunday and runs through December 31st. In March 2017, a federal appeals court upheld the USFWS’s 2012 decision to remove gray wolves in Wyoming from the endangered species list. Wolves in Wyoming were classified as “predators” and…

You did it! Yesterday the Wolf Conservation Center invited you to be a part of Red Wolf Week and you heard our howls! Over 300 supporters helped the WCC raise over 30,000 on yesterday to meet our matching grant of $20,000! We are humbled by your support and incredibly grateful for having friends like you.…

Thirty years ago this month, a new chapter in wildlife conservation began with a wild homecoming unlike anything seen before. The first captive-bred red wolves were released to the wild! The red wolf reintroduction was among the first instances of a species, considered extinct in the wild, being re-established from a captive population. In many…

The red wolf (Canis rufus) is one of the world’s most endangered wild canids. Once common throughout the southeastern United States, red wolf populations were decimated by the 1960s due to intensive predator control programs and loss of habitat. In 1980, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) declared red wolves extinct in the wild. A…

To: Disney Executives and Emma Watson From: Martha Hunt Handler, Board President, Wolf Conservation CenterRe: Beauty and the Beast One would hope that a company such as Disney, with a $175 billion market cap, and world-renowned star, such as you, Emma Watson, would ensure that the movies you produce, distribute and sign-on to are not…

Museum of Life and Science‘s six critically endangered red wolves, a breeding pair and 4 pups born in April, will migrate north in early November to a new home at the Wolf Conservation Center that can best accommodate the growing family. “This transfer is going to be bittersweet for us all,” said Sherry Samuels, the…

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.~Almost Albert Camus

Photo: Four month old Mexican gray wolf pup “Max” during her puppy veterinary exam at the Wolf Conservation Center Meet Mexican gray wolf pup Max! So many wonderful things are happening at the Wolf Conservation Center and we are excited to share a little news with you all. We are so lucky and grateful to…