Species Survival Commission

Updated: 23 October 2006

• Canids Generally
• Individual Species
• International Conservation Organizations
• Conservation Groups
• Wolf Links
• Museum Collections
• Wildlife Disease & Health Care Links
• Other Links of Interest (IUCN Specialist Groups, etc)

Please note that this list is provided for informational purposes. Inclusion of a site or group on this list is not meant to imply that CSG endorses the group, its political positions, or its views on specific scientific issues.

Predators generally:

• Carnivore Conservation -  This is an excellent site full of news and informationon carnivore ecology and conservation.

Canids Generally

• Animal Diversity Web -- Canidae Basic taxonomic, ecological, and behavioral information on 20+ species of canids
• International Species Information System - an on-line database of the holdings of zoos by species (listed by scientific name). Covers more than half the zoos in the world.

Individual Species:

• African sand fox or pale fox (Vulpes pallida)
  • Animal Diversity Web
• African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus)
  • The Painted Dog Research Project in Zimbabwe
  • African Wild Dog Reintroduction and Conservation Project discussion of the reintroduction of wild dogs into the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park of South Africa

• Arctic Fox (Alopex lagopus)
  • Finnish-Swedish-Norwegian Arctic Fox Project
  • Animal Diversity Web
• Coyote (Canis latrans) (look under wolf sites below)
• Dingo (Canis familiaris dingo)
  • Dingo Sanctuary at Bargo (Australian Native Dog Conservation Society Ltd) - an organisation dedicated to Dingo preservation and public education about Dingoes
• Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) (aka Simien jackal, Simien fox, or Abyssian wolf)
  • Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (WildCRU)
  • Born Free Foundation's Ethiopian Wolf Project
• Fennec (Fennecus zerda)
  • Animal Diversity Web
• Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
  • Animal Diversity Web
  • Mammals of Texas - Online Edition
• Jackals (Canis spp.)
  • Golden or Common Jackal (Canis aureus)
    • Animal Diversity Web
• Kit fox (Vulpes macrotis)
  • WildCRU Kit Fox project
  • San Joaquin Kit Fox - California State University Endangered Species Recovery Program
  • Kit Fox and Swift Fox Bibliography (20 pages of references!)
• Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyrus) (aka Guará)
  • Aguará guazú website in Argentina with text in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.
  • The Brasilia Zoo is involved in research on and captive breeding of maned wolves.
  • The Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. is involved in captive breeding of maned wolves.
• New Guineau Singing Dog (Canis familiaris ____)
  • New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society
• Raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) (aka "Tanuki")
  • The Garden of Tanuki
  • Animal Diversity Web
• Small-eared dog (Dusicyon microtis)
  • Animal Diversity Web
• Swift fox (Vulpes velox)
  • Kit Fox and Swift Fox Bibliography (20 pages of references!) by William Standley.
  • Cochrane Ecological Institute in Alberta has been very active in the reintroduction of swift foxes to the Canadian and U.S. Prairies
  • The Swift Fox - a nice amateur (?) site with lots of fox links
• Wolf (Gray and red) Canis lupus and C. rufus -- see below.

Conservation Organizations

International:

• World Conservation Union (IUCN)
  • Species Survival Commission
  • Cat Specialist Group
  • Hyaena Specialist Group
• People & Wildlife Initiative - A new organization dedicated to providing an information and communication forum for human-wildlife conflict issues and present innovative approaches to resolve conflict.
• American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA)
• Species Survival Plans - Specific Plans
  • African wild dog
  • Fennec fox
  • Maned Wolf
  • Mexican gray wolf
  • Red wolf

Regional

• Defenders of Wildlife - a U.S. based group that has excellent coverage of wolf conservation issues.
• Macedonian Ecological Society in cooperation with societies from Balkan countries works on the problems of protection of remaining Balkan populations of wolf (Canis lupus) and jackal (Canis aureus). So, I would like to ask you for some publication concerning canid protection. For more information contact Slavcho Hristovski, Macedonian Ecological Society, P.O.box 162, 91000 Skopje, MACEDONIA.

Wolf Links

• General:
  • The International Wolf Center, Ely, Minnesota. Probably the best wolf site, very professional and nicely done.
  • The Searching Wolf
  • a huge bibliography of technical journal articles about wolves published since 1988. Huge, as in 42 pages single spaced!
  • a large collection of wolf links
  •  Wolf Pictures and Facts -- an online gallery of wolf pictures, wolf facts, quotes from literature, and wolf  wallpaper.

•  European Wolves
• The Large Carnivore Initiative-Europe The LCIE is a dynamic network of representatives from governments, international and national non-governmental organisations, scientists and other experts. With members from 25 countries, it works across Europe to promote the coexistence of brown bears, lynxes, wolves and wolverines with human societies. The LCIE builds on important activities throughout the continent, disseminating valuable experience and knowledge.
• Sur la piste du loup/On the wolf track- a very interesting site in French and English with information about the status of the wolf in France and lots of creative ideas about teaching about wolves.
• CSDL - Centro per lo studio e la documentazione sul lupo The Centre is situated in the Italian Tuscan Appennines , between Florence and Imola, where since 1993 there has been in depth researches on the wolf. The website is in Italian and English.
• Wolf Trust - promotes the reintroduction and recovery of wolves in Britain in the Scottish Highlands of Britain.
• North American Wolves (including Mexico)
  • Defenders of Wildlife - a U.S. based private conservation group that has excellent coverage of wolf conservation issues.
  • The Wolves Ontario Project- this is a project of Earthroots, a private group working for full protection for the wolves in Algonquin Provincial Park,and seek a provincial wolf management plan. It also works on habitat issues and the protection of wildland corridors to connect Ontario's very fragmented park system.
• Middle Eastern and Asian Wolves
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Museum Collections:

• U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institute)
• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server

Conservation Biology Research

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