Wildlife Incident Reporting (WIR)

The WIR System enables a public user, the reporting party (RP), to submit a wildlife incident report directly to CDFW. The WIR System auto-assigns a wildlife incident report to a CDFW Authorized Investigator based on the geographic location of the reported incident. CDFW Authorized Investigators and support staff strive to review all WIRs in a timely manner. If additional information is required, CDFW will contact the RP.

  • Incident Reporting:
    • Report an observation involving species of interest.
    • Report human-wildlife conflict and property damage (depredation).
    • Request a depredation permit to take a depredation animal causing property damage that has been verified by CDFW. [See depredation permit species listed pursuant to Title 14, California Code of Regulations.]
    • Receive via email, download, and print depredation permits issued by CDFW.
  • Depredation Take Reporting:
    • Report animals taken under a depredation permit as required by law.
      • Wild pigs require monthly reporting even if zero animals were taken that month.
      • Other depredation species require reporting at the time an animal was taken, or when the permit expires if zero animals were taken.


NOTE: The Department is currently experiencing a high volume of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) and related wildlife incident reports. We appreciate your patience. For species-specific information and resources, visit the Department's HWC Toolkit.


Public Users (RP)

Report a wildlife incident - WIR System

Report a wolf depredation - wolfprogram@wildlife.ca.gov
(and/or report via WIR System)

Report a wolf sighting - californiawolfsightings@wildlife.ca.gov





CDFW Users (Login)

Investigator Home Page.