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Located in the mountains of east San Diego County, The California Wolf Center, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is a truly unique education, research, and conservation center focusing on the North American gray wolf. We promote conservation of gray wolves and all wildlife through education, exhibition, participation in captive breeding programs, and studies of captive-wild wolves.
OUR AMBASSADOR WOLVES: The Center is home to several captive packs of North American gray wolves including an impressive pack of Alaskan gray wolves known as the “Denali Pack.” The wolves of the Denali Pack serve as ambassadors and are our window to understanding wolves in the wild. The opportunity to visit the Center and see live wolves forms a bridge of understanding and heightens interest in conserving wolves in the wild. Our challenge is to provide the best, most natural environment for all wolves living at the California Wolf Center.
Our ambassador wolves are featured in our education programs. We develop our information about gray wolves by attending research conferences and spending time getting to know how wolf recovery works in the field. Our goal is to continuously improve our programs by keeping up on the latest research and information from the field. We also spend time listening to and understanding how people may be affected by wolf recovery, with the goal of provided complete and balanced information about gray wolves and the environment. For more information about our education programs click here.
Mexican Wolf Recovery: Mexican wolves once roamed the southwest United States and Mexico in countless numbers. Government sponsored eradication programs almost wiped out this distinct sub-species of North American gray wolf. In the mid-1970's only seven Mexican wolves were known to exist. Today, as a result of a successful captive breading program, there are approximately 60 free-ranging Mexican wolves living in the wild, they remain one of the rarest land mammals in the world. The California Wolf Center is home to several |
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Mexican gray wolf packs. Off-exhibit wolf enclosures offer Mexican wolves a natural environment, removed from human contact, thus enhancing the ability of wolves to survive if they are released in the wild. The Center hosts Mexican wolves in packs that include breeding pairs, genetically valuable individuals being prepared for future breeding or release and wolves that could not stay in the wild.
The California Wolf Center has developed an extensive working relationship with and an intimate knowledge of the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team and field activities through its association and participation in the Mexican Wolf Species Survival Plan. We attend public meetings in the recovery area, which helps us better understand the local politics, citizen concerns and also underscores how saving wolves by facilitating on-the-ground cooperation and acceptance is the best course of action. This is about gaining public acceptance for wolves and fostering cooperation as well as pursuing proactive methods to save animals including wolves and livestock. The Wolf Center has experience and a history of actively funding research and non-lethal projects in the western U.S. that relate to free-ranging wolves.
CALIFORNIA WOLF RECOVERY:
The California Wolf Center has initiated seed development efforts to construct a new facility in Northern California where wolves may recover. For more information, donation and volunteer opportunities, please contact director@thecaliforniawolfcenter.net.
Got Mail? Sign up here for instant e-mail reports on Mexican Gray Wolf recovery information as it happens! Send us your email address telling Alpha Wolf Denali to put you on his e-mailing list: info@californiawolfcenter.org
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