The Wolves and Humans Foundation

The Wolves and Humans Foundation (formerly The Wolf Society of Great Britain) is a UK based charity (Registered Charity No. 1111289) dedicated to helping conservation of wolves, as well as bears and lynx, by finding solutions to the problems of living alongside people, through practical measures, education and research. The Foundation’s work mainly focuses on Europe.

The Wolf Society of Britain was formed in 1985 and was one of the first pro-wolf conservation organisations in Europe. In 2005 the Society became a registered charity and changed its name to The Wolves and Humans Foundation, or Wolves and Humans. The idea for the change in name arose from the World Wolf Congress held in Banff, Canada in 2003; many of the presentations concluded that after centuries of persecution, wolf recovery is now a reality, and that the new conservation challenge is to find ways to co-exist with them in a human-dominated landscape.

The aims of the Foundation are;

a) to advance for the benefit of the public, research, education and training in the methods of managing conflict between wolves (and other large carnivores) and agriculture and other human interests.

b) to provide and advance education about wolves (and other large carnivores) to the general public, and to promote, support and advance the scientific study of wolves and other large carnivores.

Working in partnership with local biologists and conservationists in their home countries, provides resources, education and training with the aim of restoring traditional methods of protecting livestock and preventing attacks by predators, and carries out research to establish new methods of preventing conflicts arising.

Wolves and Humans also carries out research to establish true numbers of large carnivores and assess their impact on wild prey species and domestic livestock, helping to dispel misconceptions and provide a sound basis for future conservation and management decisions.

Past and current projects include: provision of livestock guarding dogs to sheep owners in Slovakia; provision of guarding dogs and ‘fladry’ barriers, educational activities and research into wolf population dynamics in Poland; wolf research in the Tver region of central European Russia; and an initiative to improve knowledge about wolves and other carnivores in Belarus.