Wolf Conservation Center Blog
For immediate release: July 8, 2025 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Thirty-six conservation groups representing millions of members and supporters from across the United States today sent a formal letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that requested the immediate release of Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate, and their five puppies. The wolf family was slated to be released on the Ladder Ranch in June but has been subjected to unexplained delay. The Caldera Pack consists of a female, named Asha in an online youth wolf-naming contest, her mate Arcadia, and their five pups Kachina, Aspen, Sage, Kai and Aala. Asha was born in the wild and became an icon in 2023 after she twice crossed the Fish and Wildlife Service’s arbitrary northern boundary for Mexican wolf movements marked by Interstate 40. She has been captured once before and released. She was captured again after her second…
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Listening to the Wild: How AudioMoths Are Helping Us Understand Gulf Coast Canids and Inform Red Wolf Recovery Over several days this past month, WCC’s Conservation Scientist Colleen O’Donnell found herself wading through waist-high grass and weaving through dense branches to find the perfect trees to attach AudioMoths. What is an AudioMoth? It is a small audio recording device that allows researchers to identify and monitor all kinds of wildlife, including birds, frogs, bats, and other mammals, even humans! Species tend to occupy unique “acoustic niches” within the soundscape, which means they can be identified by the timing and frequency of their vocalizations. Right now, Colleen is gaining field experience deploying AudioMoth equipment to monitor birds and their responses to human drivers. In the near future, Colleen plans to deploy these small but mighty audio recording devices—alongside McNeese State University master’s student Tanner Broussard—across the Wolf Conservation Center’s field site in…
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TUCSON, Ariz.— U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation this week to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the endangered species list, which would effectively end recovery efforts for this unique, highly imperiled subspecies. Removing Endangered Species Act protections from Mexican wolves would stop releases of wolves from captivity to diversify the gene pool of wild wolves, end federal investigations into possible wolf predation on livestock, reduce federal funding that supports compensation for livestock losses, shut down monitoring of the wolves and remove federal prohibitions on killing them. “Bypassing the Endangered Species Act to strip all protections from beleaguered Mexican gray wolves and leave them vulnerable to Arizona’s shoot-on-sight laws would cause a massacre,” said Michael Robinson, senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Southwest’s ecology would suffer, and we’d be left with a sadder, drabber landscape if Gosar and the livestock industry’s cruel vision for wolf extermination becomes…
Read MoreClose Encounters of the Weird Kind
We’re constantly trying to make sure that our ambassador wolves have interesting experiences. Their enclosures are spacious and have natural varied terrain, but we also try to provide them with…
Read MoreInto the Wild…
F836 (photo by Mike Clough) The Wolf Conservation Center is pleased to announce that F836, a five-year-old female Mexican Gray Wolf who lived at the Center for several…
Read MoreSomething Fishy…
On Friday November 14th Atka visited the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, CT as part of the Aquarium’s efforts to educate visitors about endangered species. Atka hung out in a spacious…
Read MoreHelp Protect the Wolves!
Wolves in the Northern Rockies are once more in danger of losing the protection of the Endangered Species Act. After delisting the wolves and then being forced to relist them…
Read MoreThe Wolf Conservation Center Goes, uh, Chimp!
There are few people whose names transcend their chosen fields. Yesterday, the Wolf Conservation Center was lucky to meet one of those people, Jane Goodall, world famous primatologist and environmentalist,…
Read MoreSnowy Owl in Norwalk!
Atka is appearing at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk several times this month. During his first visit last week we received word that there was a Snowy Owl at nearby…
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Greetings! Welcome to the blog of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York (www.nywolf.org). We plan to update the blog as often as possible with stories about our…
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