\n New Forest Wildlife Park has welcomed a new pair of European grey wolves, marking the first time the animals have been at the park since October 2024.\n<\/p>\n
\n The arrival followed months of planning across three countries.\n<\/p>\n
\n Jason Palmer, curator of collections at New Forest Wildlife Park, said: “Wolves are a highly complex social species and they are one of the most challenging species to keep well in captivity.\n<\/p>\n
\n The one-year-old male wolf arrived from Parc Animalier de Sainte Croix in France (Image: Helen Pinchin)\n<\/p>\n
\n “We’ve always had the intention of bringing wolves back to the park and our visitors have been incredibly patient.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The two wolves travelled from Belgium to Hampshire after bonding together in Belgium.\n<\/p>\n
\n A two-year-old female came from the Reserve d\u2019Animaux Sauvages in Belgium, and a one-year-old male from Parc Animalier de Sainte Croix in France.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Palmer said: “We can’t wait for our visitors to meet them.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The park now houses the only European grey wolves in Hampshire.\n<\/p>\n
\n European breeding programmes aim to maintain genetic diversity and support conservation for long-term species survival.\n<\/p>\n
\n The wolves join the park\u2019s growing collection of apex predators, including Bodie the wolverine, and lynx sisters Tora and Inga who now live in a new enclosure.\n<\/p>\n
\n For more information, visit the New Forest Wildlife Park website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Forest Wildlife Park has welcomed a new pair of European grey wolves, marking the first time the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-694430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}