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Yesterday, wildlife officials confirmed something incredible: a wild gray wolf (BEY03F) has arrived in Los Angeles County, marking the first documented appearance of a wolf here in over 100 years. This 3-year-old female traveled hundreds of miles from the Sierra Nevada in search of territory and a mate — a testament to the resilience of California’s endangered wolves.

But with this milestone comes real danger. As wolves disperse through our landscapes, their movements often put them in harm’s way — especially near roads and highways. Wolves hit by vehicles remain one of the leading causes of mortality for gray wolves across the West, and BEY03F could face the same deadly risk.

🚨 Here’s how YOU can help:
Apex is launching the #wolfcrossing campaign to raise awareness and proactively protect this wandering wolf and others like her. Here’s how you can help:

🐺Put up “Wolf Crossing” signs wherever you see wildlife corridors, trailheads, and roadways near natural spaces in LA County
🐺Share photos of your sign with the hashtag #wolfcrossing
🐺Tag friends, local parks, city councils, and community groups to spread the word

Wolves were once native up and down the West Coast, including Southern California — until predator eradication programs wiped them out a century ago. Their return is historic, but fragile. Protecting wolves means protecting wild ecosystems and respecting the intrinsic value of native wildlife.

Join the movement:
Whether you’re posting a sign at a trailhead, sharing this post, or tagging your local officials to support wildlife-friendly measures – your voice matters. Use #wolfcrossing and #SaveLAWolf to make sure BEY03F arrives safely to wherever her journey leads.

Let’s show this wolf — and all Californians — that our wild spaces are worth protecting. taken in Los Angeles, California by @apexprotectionproject

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It’s #wolfawarenessweek!

Did you know that wolves live in matriarchal societies, and that the leader of the pack is female? When talking to Rick McIntyre, Yellowstone’s lead wolf interpreter, he will tell you that all you need to know about a wolf pack is that “the girl is in charge”. We like the sound of that!!

Thank you @tiktokforgood for this amazing feature and for helping us spread awareness! by @apexprotectionproject

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We have been blessed with the presence of pure goodness for three years now. Happy 3rd gotcha day to Addy girl! My sweet, sassy, full hearted, magical friend. 🎂

#apexprotectionproject #wolfdog #wolfdogsofinstagram #wolfdogsanctuary taken in Apex Protection Project by @apexprotectionproject

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Grey & his babies.🖤🤍

Help us give them the best life possible by supporting our sanctuary! Donate, share, or virtually adopt any of our pack members to keep your support going year-round (link in bio).

We cannot do this work alone. It truly takes a village (AKA, a human pack). Thank you for being part of ours.❤️🙏

#NotPets #wolfsanctuary #wolfdogsofinstagram #rescue by @apexprotectionproject

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🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Today, a bipartisan bill was introduced to nullify the Trump Administration's recent rule change and stop them from gutting one of the most important protections in the Endangered Species Act. The bill, sponsored by Congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1 and Mike Quigley (D-IL-5), is being called the Safeguarding Endangered Species Act.

For more than 50 years, the law has recognized a simple, obvious truth: destroying the habitat an endangered animal needs to feed, breed, and find shelter causes harm—even if the animal isn’t killed outright.

The administration’s new rule erases that protection, narrowing the definition of “harm” and giving industries far more freedom to destroy critical wildlife habitat. Now, this bill would overturn the rule and restore these longstanding protections.

Wolves and other imperiled species cannot survive if the places they call home are destroyed. Congress must pass this bill and stop this reckless attack on the Endangered Species Act.

Raise your voice for wolves at TeamWolf.Org! by @apexprotectionproject

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GOOD NEWS! Colorado Parks and Wildlife has confirmed the formation of a new gray wolf pack: the Piney Ridge Pack in Northwest Colorado! 🐺

The Piney Ridge Pack forms after nearly two and half years of the Colorado wolf reintroduction program being active. This year, CPW confirmed new wolf pups in four packs: One Ear, Three Creeks, Copper Creek and Piney Ridge.

This program shows us what is possible when agencies, producers and conservation organizations approach recovery with collaboration at top of mind!

Post via ➡️ @defendersofwildlife
Credit: @defendersofwildlife by @apexprotectionproject

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Coastal wolf families are tightly connected units where parents, older siblings and pups depend on one another. A pack is typically made up of a breeding pair, their pups and older offspring that stay with the family for several years. These older siblings help babysit, bring food back to the den, protect the pups from danger, and teach them how to survive. They hunt, travel and raise the next generation together.

Since these wolves are highly cautious and typically stick to remote, isolated rainforests and beaches, they are notoriously difficult for humans to spot or track. Which made our small group’s particular sighting and extended time observing this family (partially pictured) incredibly special to witness.
We watched what appeared to be a total of 10 pack members, including 5 pups and a few older siblings during this morning, an extremely rare encounter.

Today, scientists estimate that roughly 200 to 440 coastal wolves remain on & around Vancouver Island. This broad range/estimate is due to the difficulty of tracking these elusive animals in remote areas. Conservation efforts by Indigenous First Nations, researchers and wildlife organizations are focused on safeguarding denning areas, preserving intact coastal forests, reducing human-caused mortality, and supporting long-term monitoring of pack populations.

Coastal wolves reproduce slowly and depend on healthy forests and salmon-rich waters to raise their young. Their survival is inseparable from healthy salmon runs, intact old-growth forests, and thriving coastlines.
When we protect these extraordinary animals, we’re also protecting an entire ecosystem and the very spirit of the wild itself.🐺🌊🤍
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#CoastalWolves #wildlife
#SeaWolves #ProtectWolves #WolfConservation by @apexprotectionproject

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Devastating News 💔 - This month, the Trump administration finalized a rule that rescinds the Endangered Species Act’s longstanding definition of “harm,” removing language that recognized significant habitat destruction as a form of harm to protected wildlife. Conservation organizations warn the change could make it easier for projects that degrade wolf habitat to move forward without the same level of federal scrutiny. The rule is already being challenged in court.

Healthy ecosystems require connected landscapes where wolves can hunt, disperse, establish territories, and maintain genetic diversity. When habitat is fragmented by roads, development, logging, mining, or other industrial activities, wolves are pushed into smaller, more isolated areas where conflicts with people become more likely and recovery becomes more difficult.

Protecting wolves has never been only about stopping illegal killing. It’s also about protecting the wild places that make recovery possible.

Take action: Tell your members of Congress to defend the Endangered Species Act and support science-based conservation that protects both wolves and the habitats they depend on.

📸Image of Thor courtesy of @soulcaptureswithstacey by @apexprotectionproject

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It takes less than a minute to submit a comment. Under Oregon’s newly proposed rule, a black bear or cougar could remain caught in a trap for up to 56 hours before the trapper is required to check it.

If a trapper claims they’re setting traps to address a specific conflict, they should also be able to check those traps promptly. If there are too many traps to check within 24 hours, that’s a reasonable question to ask about whether the trapping effort is truly limited to addressing a localized problem.

At a minimum, bears and cougars deserve protections that are at least as strong as those already required for many other trapped animals.

Please take one minute today to ask the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission to require trap checks every 24 hours.

🔗 Link in bio. Comments close tomorrow, July 24, at 8:00 a.m.

P.S. While you’re there, please consider submitting a second comment supporting updates to Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery that reduce whale entanglements. Modern “on-demand” (ropeless) fishing gear can eliminate the vertical buoy lines that entangle migrating whales while allowing fishermen to continue fishing.

Both comment periods close tomorrow morning, so today is the day to make your voice heard. Link in bio or below.

Crab form:https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Mmk_qnz6tEegzqWYytFhz_X4-jw4Vk9AlUpnhvNihXVUQlBTUzVBR1RMVTdKUjFVVUlVRjRWWTRKNy4u&route=shorturl

Trap check times form: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Mmk_qnz6tEegzqWYytFhz_X4-jw4Vk9AlUpnhvNihXVUNlQxSkZFQlhBUVNLRktaVDNSWEtPNDIzNi4u&route=shorturl by @apexprotectionproject

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BREAKING NEWS — Montana (admittedly) still doesn’t know how many wolves are in the state. They have dramatically revised their wolf population estimate downward, but the state is still proposing another aggressive killing season.

Montana did not suddenly lose nearly 400 wolves. The state changed its population model—and the new result exposed just how much uncertainty existed in the estimates used to justify years of escalating wolf killing.

FWP’s original model estimates 1,094 wolves in 2025. Its preliminary updated model estimates only 725—a difference of 369 wolves. Yet Montana is proposing a recreational hunting-and-trapping quota of 250 wolves, while separately authorizing landowner and agency control killing. If the quota is filled, total authorized killing could reach approximately 285–305 wolves.

Most alarming, FWP’s own report estimates the population has declined 22% since 2021 and warns that killing at recent average levels would produce continued declines, potentially pushing the updated population estimate below 450 wolves within three years. The agency is nevertheless preparing to gamble with a native carnivore using a population model that has not completed peer review.

This is not precautionary wildlife management. It is an attempt to manage wolves toward the lowest population Montana believes it can legally maintain.

Take action by August 12: Visit the Montana FWP page for the August 19 Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting and use the online public-comment portal beneath the wolf-regulations proposal. Demand that commissioners reject the 250-wolf quota, suspend aggressive killing until the updated model is independently reviewed and validated, protect Yellowstone-border wolves, and end baiting, snaring and nighttime technology-assisted wolf hunting. The Commission is scheduled to vote on August 19.

Reporting based on Montana FWP’s 2025 Annual Wolf Report and regulatory proposal, with analysis first reported by @wildearthguardians. by @apexprotectionproject

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Enjoy enrichment that lasted all of 60 seconds for these tiny little terrors. ❤️🐺📦

#apexprotectionproject #wolfsanctuary #wolvesofinstagram #enrichment #wolfpup taken in Apex Protection Project by @apexprotectionproject

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Welcome to Snoot City.
Pupulation: Angel & Spike.🖤🤍

Virtually adopt our newest rescues, Angel & Spike, or any of our pack members and support @apexprotectionproject by:
🐺 clicking the link in our bio
🐺 www.apexprotectionproject.org
🐺 donate through our Venmo or PayPal
🐺 share this post and tag a fellow wolf lover

#NOTpets #teamwolf #wolf #wolfsanctuary by @apexprotectionproject

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