Wild Wolf Film
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Our Mission
The Wild Wolf Film project endeavors to use film, digital media, and community outreach to advance the recovery of the Mexican Gray Wolf and other endangered species by teaching about their role in the eco system, and providing creative solutions to a healthy long term relationship between nature and humans.
Our Vision
Wild Wolf Film envisions a world where the Mexican Grey Wolf population along with all endangered species has been successfully restored to its original habitat and is thriving along with all life forms on this planet. And, in our vision, the wolf is accepted and respected by humans and their coexistence is easy and effortless. Wildness and wilderness are an integral part of the human experience again.
News!
July 30, 2010, Albuquerque:
Educator and filmmaker Elke Duerr will give a presentation about Mexican Gray Wolves at
The Kosmos on 1715 Fifth Street NW, Friday, July 30th 8:00pm, doors open at 7pm. The program focuses on myths, fiction and facts about the Mexican Gray Wolf, the role of the Lobo in the ecosystem and will include footage and stills from Duerr’s documenatry film “Stories of wolves-The Lobo returns”.
“Stories of Wolves-The lobo returns” is an examination of the Mexican Gray Wolf recovery program in New Mexico. It’s a story with man subplots because of the dynamic relationship of the wolf to the various communities who now share its habitat: the ranchers, the conservationists, the Native American cultures, and the other animals that depend upon its presence to maintain a healthy ecological system.
Just as much as it’s a film about wolves, it’s also about eh people of New Mexico and their stand in making this program a success or a failure. And ultimately it is a bout the vanishing wildness inside and outside of us. There are currently only about 40 lobos left in the wild.
The program is designed as a fundraiser for the wolf project and includes a musical jazz performance by friends of wolves, food and a silent art auction. Doors open at 7pm, tickets at $15 are available for presale at info@wildwolffilm.com or at the door. Beverages and desserts are available by donation.
For full information see the press release and program.
Wild Wolf Film is working with New York-based clothing designer Mary Meyer on limited-edition Wild-Wolf clothing line to benefit the Wild Wolf film project. Stay tuned for availability. To see the design pattern click here. Make a donation of $80 or more and receive a designer T-Shirt exclusively designed for the wolf project by New York City designer Mary Meyer. Black or White only. Call for details!
Wolf Pup Season has started!!! Reportedly, one of the female wolves at the captive breeding facility in Sevilleta is pregnant. If all goes well we will have yearling pups released into the wild by next spring!
February 2010: Mexico to Reintroduce Wolves Near U.S. Border (Arizona Daily Star)
As early as this month, the Mexican government will reintroduce five endangered Mexican gray wolves to northeastern Sonora, leaving the wolves within easy roaming distance of the Sky Islands ecosystem in southern Arizona and New Mexico. It's a good move for the wolves, which would greatly benefit from connectivity between habitat in Mexico and in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area further north.
The livestock industry isn't happy about the reintroduction, to say the least, but any wolves that wander into the country will enjoy the full protection of the Endangered Species Act, unlike the "experimental non-essential" wolves already in the Southwest. Mexico's move comes just as the latest count of Mexican wolves in the United States dropped dangerously low, to just 42 animals -- ten less than were counted last year.
November 2009: We just returned from 8 days in wolf country in November where we visited 4 different wolf pack territories. Each night we heard them howl and on one occasion found tracks in the morning close to our tent. It was wonderful to feel their presence once more and hear them communicate with each other at close range.
We talked to and filmed ranchers, conservationists, wildlife biologists, an ecological wilderness tour outfitter and residents of wolf country. In general, things are looking up for our wolves, they just abandoned the 3 strikes rule for wolves, meaning that they will not automatically kill or place wolves in captivity that have been “charged with 3 cattle depredations” in 1 year.
The recovery project is in full swing and they are scheduled to release their first Mexican Gray Wolves this month in Mexico, thereby increasing the total number of wolves in the wild. We hope that the Mexican people in the wolf recovery area are in good spirits about their new neighbors and that things will go smoothly.
This has been an amazing journey for all of us involved in the wolf film project. It is a privilege to get to talk to people about the wolves and to hear and embrace their standpoint in this matter. The wolf recovery issue is truly a complex subject with many different subplots, yet we remain more hopeful than ever that the wolves will survive and thrive in the wild and once again occupy their old stomping grounds wild and free.
Older news: From the German wolf country: Elke Duerr met with wolf experts, wolf enthusiasts, and opponents during fall 2009 to discuss the wolf management program in both countries (USA and the European Community) and point to solutions for the "predator versus live stock" issue.
Nobody is allowed to touch the wolves in the European Community, let alone dig up the pups and relocate them. The Wolf Bureau’s sole purpose is to educate the public about wolves and to establish how ranchers and farmers can best protect their life stock. The audiences at the various talks are very supportive of the Mexican Gray Wolf recovery program and enjoyed the short film version and facts.
An ongoing collaboration has been established between Elke Duerr and the wolf experts. She is contributing to wolf magazines in Germany and is engaged in a dialogue about the future of the wolves in this world.
For more information on Wolf Issues in the European Community see gzsdw.de and wolfsregion-lausitz.de
