[1] She is together with Gesa Kluth Founder and director of LUPUS - Institute for Wolf Monitoring and Research in Germany[2] and the Freundeskreis freilebender Wölfe.
Ilka Reinhardt works with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Naturschutzbund Deutschland.
Ilka Reinhardt and Sabina Nowak are members of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe[5] and cooperate with the CEWolf Consortium.
[7][8] [9] Like Sabina Nowak, Ilka Reinhardt became a member of the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE) under the chair Luigi Boitani.
On behalf of the Bundesamt für Naturschutz, the two women played a key role in the development of the Standards for wolf monitoring for Germany.