Atka the Wolf Visits Binghamton University
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Binghamton University recently welcomed the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) of South Salem, N.Y., and its 6-year old Arctic gray wolf into one of the Lecture Halls. Raised in captivity, Atka has become the ambassador wolf of the WCC. Besides an up-close encounter with Atka, attendees learned about the history of wolves in the United States, their importance to the ecosystem, as well as the efforts to save future generations of wolves.Founded in 1999, the WCC promotes wolf conservation by teaching about wolves, their relationship to the environment and the human role in protecting their future. The WCC accomplishes this mission through on- and off-site education programs that emphasize wolf biology, the ecological benefits of wolves and other large predators, and the current status of wolf recovery in the United States. The WCC also participates in the Species Survival Plan (SSP) and Recovery Plan for the critically endangered Mexican gray wolf and the red wolf. For more information about the WCC, visit www.nywolf.org or call 914-763-2373.
This program was sponsored by the Binghamton Scholars, a selective all-university four-year honors program for Binghamton University students of exceptional merit. The scholar students have undertaken this effort as part of the community-service aspect of the Scholars program.
R.I.P atka
They are pure and should be kept that way
its right!.. people make a show of it.. **school like this..
RIP Atka. He has beautiful eyes.
Thank You for this great defense which I am soldier for the wolves
Love Atka thank you NY Wolf Conservatory 🐺 for all of your help in saving these precious species ❤ Joan and Keith Bates
Sept. 2020. Time always passes the same. Yet for us it can go by so slow or so fast. And now, looking at this video from 2009 and hearing her talk about the Wolf Consercation Center started in 1998, I wonder where time has gone? So many changes. This year - so difficult for many. Tic, tac, tic, tac... Stunning Atka.
The human inst walking the wolf. The wolf is walking its human...
Cool I never learned why wolves and dogs love strong smells so much before today
He was beyond beautiful.
i met Atka in north haven CT.
ATKA LOOKS JUST LIKE MY LARGE BREED 160 LB ALASKAN WHITE MALAMUTE !!
Aww ... He's a handsome furball wolf fella. I ❤️ 🐺.
what about tundra wolves and the other wolves in the arctic desert? dont forget alaska ;C
They are still classified as grey wolf.
@@saltnpepperpupper947 oh atkas a grey wolf ok
atka,,,
ATKAS A BOY impossible :o
Wolves and universities don't match. The wolf keeps looking at all those people sitting there like: "why are they all quietly enclosed in this place?".
They now that Atka means good women....?
"... Raised In Captivity ... " Fed And Played With Too So, Basically A Pet Wolf - Just Have The Intellectual Honesty To Call It What It Is.
Actually, if you know anything about where this video came from, Atka lives in the New York Wolf Conservation Center. Not a house or owned by any one person.
@@deeznuts8659 This wolf here is an ambassador wolf. He will never live in the wild, because right now there is no safe place for him. Instead he lives as an example that wolves aren't some kind of monsters that humans need to get rid of.The hope is that his gene's live on, and that one day his descendants get to live in the wild once more.
That can only happen through education, and sad thing is that humans will pay far more attention when faced with an actual wolf that clearly shows no interest in eating them. Showing images and talking about how wolves act has far less of an impact. Hopefully we get rid of the common misconception that wild wolves are dangerous to humans. That way we can focus on helping the remaining populations.
The wolves that are bred in captivity by certified non-profit organisations, are kept in case there is a catastrophe in the remaining wolf populations in the wild. You can't bring a badly endangered species back from the brink, if the individuals left are too closely related. These populations in captivity are from a different gene pool, and can be later inserted to an area that has suffered from population loss, bringing in fresh genetic material and revitalizing the population.
That said, I do wish we could take care of not making a species extinct, without having to bring an individual of that species in front of us. But unfortunately humans have many misconceptions regarding wolves. The conservation efforts have to fight against misinformed fear, not just apathy, in order to get humans to care about wolves going extinct.