International Wolf Centre

I wasn't aware of this group until I received a request to use my Golden Eagle image for an article on Wolves versus Golden Eagles in Mongolia. The group publishes a very attractively laid-out magazine, full of interesting articles. This particluar one is about how the Wolves meet their match in Airborne Predators. "An ancient tradition gives new meaning to aerial wolf hunt". The hunters wear the wolf furs against the bitter cold.

The final words from the article are:
'As aerial hunting of wolves is debated in the modern world, it is interesting to consider this centuries-old clash between the top hunter of the air and of the ground, which plays out in remote lands half a world away, and the parallel between them that exists across cultures."

www.wolf.org/wolves/aboutus/aboutus.asp

This is a link to a short YouTube video showing the training fof the Golden Eagles and the capture/kill of a wolf in Mongolia. WARNING: the quick kill is filmed from a long distance, but some people may still be too sensitive to watch. The words on YouTube said: "During October 2008 I visited to film the "Golden Eagle Festival" in Ulgii Mongolia. I spend few days with one falconer and absorbed their training methods."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWFtWzFbXCY