See What’s Happening in Wolf Conservation

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates that there are now at least 70 gray wolves in the state, up from 44 documented the year before.

North American gray wolf sisters Shasta, Sierra, and Tehama move to newly-renovated wolf exhibit in Minnesota.

California Wolf Center, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team work together to save the endangered subspecies.

California Wolf Center welcomes a litter of seven Mexican gray wolf pups. With less than 120 wild Mexican gray wolves in the US, these puppies are definitely a cause for celebration!

California Wolf Center welcomes a litter of seven Mexican gray wolf pups. With less than 120 wild Mexican gray wolves in the US, these puppies are definitely a cause for celebration!

At least two gray wolf puppies have been born at California Wolf Center. These two pups join their parents, Wintu and Yana, as part of the North American gray wolf pack residing at the nonprofit’s conservation center.

These two puppies, born to North American gray wolves Wintu and Yana, join the over twenty resident wolves at the conservation center. We welcome these newly born wolves at a critical time as their wild counterparts are returning to the Golden State.

A pair of gray wolves have joined the list of eight new native-Californian species at Oakland Zoo’s upcoming California Trail expansion, opening in June 2018.

A pair of gray wolves have joined the list of eight new native-Californian species at Oakland Zoo’s upcoming California Trail expansion, opening in June 2018. Wild wolves are now returning to California - after being extirpated during government-run antipredator campaigns a century ago.

California Wolf Center is celebrating the birth of a Mexican gray wolf litter at their conservation center, six puppies born two weeks ago. On May 16th two pups were transported to Arizona and placed in the den of the Panther Creek wild wolf pack.

A single gray wolf has crossed the border into California south of Klamath Falls, marking the return of a keystone predator that was eliminated from our state more than 80 years ago.

On Tuesday, December 6th California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) released the final Conservation Plan for Gray Wolves in California. We wish to express our appreciation for the Department's tremendous work in creating a Wolf Conservation Plan that takes into consideration all stakeholders perspectives and interests.

Range riders are saddling up in Northern California to help prevent wolf-livestock conflicts, thanks to a recently implemented range rider program, announced the California Wolf Center.

California Department of Fish & Wildlife released a report confirming the presence of another wolf in Northern California on January 7, 2016. This wolf is not part of the Shasta Pack, but is believed to be a lone wolf.

The image of five gray wolf pups in Northern California was released by California Department of Fish & Wildlife on August 20, 2015. This news has been long awaited since the lone gray wolf, Journey first crossed into California from Oregon in 2011.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has determined that protecting gray wolves under the California Endangered Species Act is not warranted. The Department presented that recommendation yesterday in a status report given to the state’s Fish and Game Commission in Sacramento.

Approximately one million Americans stated their opposition to the Obama administration’s proposal to strip endangered species protections from gray wolves in a comment period that closed today.

Demonstrating Americans’ broad opposition to the Obama administration’s plan to strip Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves, members of the Pacific Wolf Coalition submitted 101,416 comments to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today favoring continued wolf protections.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its proposal today to remove Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves across most of the country.

Twenty-five wildlife conservation, education and protection organizations in California, Oregon and Washington today announced the formation of an alliance committed to recovering wolves across the region.

California moved one step closer to deciding whether to protect the gray wolf under the California Endangered Species Act.

Protecting the gray wolf under California’s Endangered Species Act may be warranted, according to a report prepared by the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) and presented to the state’s Fish and Game Commission today at a public hearing in Ventura.

Twenty-two students from the Elementary Institute of Science (EIS) will be the first group of high school students to participate in a week-long, Citizen Science research expedition this July at one of the country’s most spectacular national parks.

The last surviving Mexican gray wolf from the original release in 1998 died recently at California Wolf Center in Julian, CA. Rio, or M166, had been living out his retirement years at California Wolf Center, and he passed peacefully without suffering.

California Wolf Center announced its partnership with the Minnesota Zoo and "WolfQuest"—a 3D wildlife simulation video game and the first game of its kind to be fully funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

California Wolf Center will be celebrating Wolf Awareness Week with two special programs featuring Maggie Dwire, Assistant Wolf Recovery Coordinator for the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program.

New hope for highly endangered Mexican wolves emerged from a den at the California Wolf Center as five Mexican gray wolf pups were born in mid-April and ventured outside for the first time in mid-May.

California Wolf Center will be celebrating Wolf Awareness Week with 2 special programs featuring Ed Bangs, Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery Coordinator.

New hope for highly endangered Mexican wolves emerged from a den at the California Wolf Center as five Mexican gray wolf pups were born in mid-April and ventured outside for the first time in mid-May.

The endangered Mexican wolf received a much needed boost to its population this April as eight pups (three males and five females) were born at the California Wolf Center.