Out & About July 2017

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There are a number of ways to
get involved with the UKWolf
Conservation Trust.
You can become a Walking Member, a
Junior Member or even Adopt a Wolf.
The trust is open to the public every
Wednesday, from 11am until 4pm, with
feeding time at 2pm. Tickets are available
on the gate at a cost of £8 for adults and
£5 for children up to the age of 12 years –
under-3s are free.
Special events take place throughout the
year, include the exciting Howl Nights.
These take place one Friday each month
Get involved
The wolves
There are currently 10 wolves at the UKWCT. In
2006 the trust took on three Canadian wolves,
Mosi, Mai and Mika, who were all born at Dartmoor
Wildlife Park and abandoned by their mother not
long after they were born. They arrived in Beenham
at just six days old, but sadly Mika died shortly
afterwards.
Torak arrived a few days later from the Anglian
Wolf Society and is related to some of the trust’s
earlier wolves through his father and to Mosi and
Mai through his grandfather.
In 2010, as can happen in the wild, there was a
dominance fight between sisters Mosi and Mai and
they were split up. Torak and Mosi continue to live
as a pair in one enclosure while Mai now lives with
Motomo. He was brought to the trust that year to
keep Mai company and the pair had a litter of cubs.
Born on May, 2011, Nuka, Tala and Tundra have
become the main ambassadors of the UKWCT,
having been hand-reared there since birth. The
Beenham Pack live together in another enclosure.
The fourth and final enclosure houses the Arctic
Pack – Massak, Pukak and Sikko. The three wolves
were born in captivity at Parc Safari, near Quebec,
Canada, amid a fierce snowstorm and were
virtually hypothermic when they were rescued.
Their names are all reflective of the treacherous
conditions they were born in. The trust gave them
a home in May 2011, when they became the first
Arctic wolves in the UK.
The UK Wolf
Conservation
Trust (UKWCT)
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Pictures: top, Tala,
Francesca MacIlroy;
middle, Nuka and
Mai, Mike Collins;
bottom, Massak
and Pukaka, Calum
O’Flaherty
– but not on a full moon. Starting at 7pm,
you will learn why wolves howl, as well
as hearing them in spine-tingling action.
Next year’s Howl Nights are on January 13,
February 10, March 24, April 7, May 12,
June 2, September 8 and October 6.
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2017 –
which coincides with the wolf breeding
season – children will be given the
opportunity to make heart-shaped treats
for the wolves, before hiding them in the
enclosure (the wolves are taken out before
any children are let in). They can then watch
the wolves find and eat the treats.
Young enthusiasts will also enjoy the
Easter Eggstravaganza, on Tuesday, April
11, 2017. This time the treats will be hidden
inside colourful eggs.
Details on all of these events are available
on the trust’s website: