The overall goal of the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme, A WildCRU endeavour in parternishp with Ethiopia's Wildlife Conservation Department and Regional Governments, is the conservation of the Ethiopian wolf and its Afroalpine habitat, while ensuring the social and economic well being of local communities.
Our working strategy is centered on the following objectives:
• To assess, address and counteract threats to the survival of Ethiopian wolves.
• To secure the conservation of Afroalpine biodiversity and ecological processes.
• To strengthen Ethiopia's environmental sector, particularly biodiversity conservation.

The most pressing threats to wolves are:
• Loss and fragmentation of the Afroalpine habitat: High-altitude subsistence agriculture and overgrazing; road construction and sheep farming
• Diseases: Particularly rabies, transmitted by domestic dogs, which decimated populations in 1991 and 2003
• Conflicts with humans: Poisoning and persecution in reprisal for livestock losses; road kills
• Hybridisation with domestic dogs: Seemingly limited to one local population in Bale

We promote sustainable solutions for the conservation of Ethiopian wolves by understanding, predicting and addressing particular aspects of the most serious threats affecting their populations - threats that ultimately enhance the inherent vulnerability of these small and isolated populations, all at risk of genetic loss and inbreeding, and the negative effects of demographic and environmental stochasticity.