New wolf website aims to promote understanding
Wolf Side, a new website by wildlife photographer Angelo Gandolfi, is intended an informational tool to help people understand that the species can live together with us in many of its natural former habitats in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, and particularly in the Alpine range. the site contains many stunning photographs of wolves and their habitat, as well as stories and information.
Wild, free and coming back?
The Wildland Network and Trees for Life are hosting a two day conference near Inverness this September, examining what is required for the reintroduction of key species to Scotland and the British Isles, including wolves and other predators, beavers and wild boar. Click here for more details.
Appeal: help build a new enclosure for rescued wolves
In 2006, Wolves and Humans joined the Born Free Foundation, Slovak Wildlife Society and Arcturos in the rescue of two four year old wolves kept in inadequate captive conditions in a village in Slovakia. Now we need your help to build a new, even larger enclosure for them at the Arcturos wolf sanctuary in Greece. Click here to find out more and to make a donation.
Read the full story of the rescue here.
Wolves and Humans call for 'serious debate' on wolf reintroduction
Wolves and Humans is featured on the BBC Scotland website, with director Richard Morley questioned about the prospects for reintroduction of wolves in the Highlands - read the article here.
Top conservation experts visit our project in Slovakia
In February 2008, Wolves and Humans co-ordinated a visit to Slovakia by a group of prominent conservationists, including Paul Lister, owner of the Alladale Wilderness Reserve in the Scottish Highlands; David Macdonald, director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University and chairman of the IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group, and Toby Aykroyd, vice-chairman of the Wilderness Foundation and co-ordinator of the Wild Europe initiative.
Hosted by Robin Rigg and Svetlana Bet’kova, of our partner organisation the Slovak Wildlife Society (SWS), the group tracked wolves and bears in the Western Tatra Mountains, and were shown the results of SWS’s conservation activities in the region, including a bear-proof bin recently installed at a restaurant previously visited by hungry bears. Robin Rigg gave a presentation outlining a proposed new research project on bears, and there was much useful discussion and exchange of ideas, which we hope will lead to future co-operation.
New book explores attitudes to predators in the UK
'Tooth & Claw - living alongside Britain's predators', by photographers Peter Cairns and Mark Hamblin, is a unique photo-documentary of our often extreme attitudes to the predators that inhabit our countryside, and our changing relationship with nature. The book is part of the ground-breaking Tooth & Claw education and communication project, conceived by the authors.
Signed copies can be ordered from www.toothandclaw.org.uk at a discounted price.
Interim report on wolf census in Slovakia published
The interim report on the joint Wolves and Humans/Slovak Wildlife Society
wolf census project is now available to download - click here.
New European Commission Report on Co-existence with Large Carnivores
The latest issue of the Natura 2000 newsletter, published by the European Commission, focuses on conservation through coexistence with Europe's large carnivores, examining the challenges of protection and conservation, and how we can learn to live with large carnivores. Click here to download the pdf file.
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