Protection
There is extensive legal protection in many European countries. they would like to help these animals survive and not to become extinct.
The species now receives legal protection in Afghanistan, having been listed by the Afghan Government on the country's 2009 Protected Species List. This prohibits all hunting and trade of C. lupus within Afghanistan.
It occurs in many protected areas across its range.
What happens in captivity:
The species lives and breeds well in captivity and is common in many zoological gardens.
One of the most important questions still remaining about wolves involves the nature of their interaction with prey populations. The conditions under which wolves limit, regulate, or control their population is still open and important. many people are creating conservation habitats to aid these creatures to reproduce and create more of these magnificent animals.