WolfHowl: Howling with the wolves. Traditional Ecological Knowledge practices as disaster mitigation strategies.
Welcome to WolfHowl (NWO SSH Open Competition XS 2025 – round 1/ Grant Agreement: 406.XS.25.01.038) Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) consists of a body of locally produced, condition-adjustant, practices that is used to provide ecological solutions to local environmental problems, and even preventively to mitigate disasters. As part of rewilding Europe, the European Wolf has been returning to the continent’s forest, not without conflicts with shepherds, hunters, and NGOs.To date, the preventive value of TEK has been understudied, and so has the practice of wolf-howling in order to “map” wolf-populations in a certain area. This project intends to study that practice, and its disaster mitigation potentials in Halkidiki, Greece contributing to the relevant TEK bibliography.
WolfHowl is financed by NWO’s SSH XS Grant for Innovative Projects.
This is WolfHowl’s project page. It will be – rather irregularly – updated with news on the project’s progress.
Last modified: August 29, 2025