UPDATE MAY 2026: Our movement has reached Parliament.  Please sign the official government petition here to trigger a debate: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/765997 You must confirm the signature from your email inbox otherwise it won't count. While we continue to demand an independent investigation into the Wildwood 5, we are now fighting to ensure no other pack faces this fate. We are calling for a national ban on keeping wolves in captivity.

 

My name is Davie Murray. I adopted Odin, Nuna, Maximus, Tiberius, and Minimus — five European grey wolves living at Wildwood Trust in Kent. More than 300 people did the same. We paid. We cared. We followed their lives.

 

On March 25, 2026, I found out they were all dead. Not from the Trust. Not from a phone call. From a Google notification.

 

Nearly 24,000 of you signed a petition demanding an independent investigation into what happened — and that demand still stands. The unexplained sepsis timeline. The contradictory statements about whether the crisis was sudden or foreseeable. The specialist sanctuaries that were apparently never called. The 300 adopters who were the last to know.

 

We still want answers. But we also need to look at the bigger picture — because Wildwood is not an anomaly. It is a symptom.

 

There is no law preventing this from happening again. We want to change that.

 

Wolves are apex predators with complex social structures. No enclosure can meet their needs. And right now, any zoo or wildlife park in the UK can acquire wolves, manage them however they choose, and euthanise them — with no mandatory oversight, no independent welfare standard, and no legal obligation to explore alternatives first.

 

Odin, Nuna, Maximus, Tiberius, and Minimus died because the system allowed it. We are asking the UK Government to close that gap — permanently.

 

We call on the Government to:

 

Introduce a legislative ban on the keeping of wolves in captivity in the UK, including in zoos, wildlife parks, and private collections

Establish a mandatory pre-euthanasia protocol requiring documented evidence that specialist rehoming has been explored before any healthy or treatable animal is killed for behavioural reasons

Require all captive wolf facilities to publish welfare and management records, independently audited

Ensure existing captive wolves are transitioned to accredited sanctuaries under a clear Government-managed framework

If you signed the original petition, your voice helped build this moment. Now we are asking for something that lasts — a legal change that means no adopter ever finds out their animals are dead from a Google notification, and no healthy wolf is euthanised because no one was required to look for another way.

 

Sign for Odin, Nuna, Maximus, Tiberius, and Minimus. Sign so it never happens again.

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Odin, Nuna, Maximus, Tiberius, and Minimus deserved better. The 300+ people who loved and supported them deserved better. Help us make sure this never happens again.