Wolves are Essential
3,146 views · Published 30 December 2017 · 0:18 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: Wolf Conservation Center · 2017 · Pets & Animals
Beyond being beautiful, wolves are critical keystone species. By regulating prey populations, wolves enable many other species of plants and animals to flourish. Without predators, such as wolves, an ecosystem fails to support a natural level of biodiversity and may cease to exist altogether. Just one of the many reasons wolves are essential. Nikai is a captive-born gray wolf at the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC), a 501c3 non-profit organization, in South Salem, NY. He is one of the four 'ambassador wolves' at the WCC that help teach the public about wolves and their vital role in the environment. If you want to watch Zephyr, Alawa, Nikai, Atka or the WCC's critically endangered Mexican gray wolves or red wolves in live time, visit our live wolf webcams at http://www.nywolf.org/webcams. If you see something cool, let us know! For more information about wolves and the WCC's participation in wolf recovery, please visit our website at www.nywolf.org and follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/nywolforg) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/nywolforg), and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/wolfconserv...)
