mexican gray wolf
Posted May 13, 2022, 5:31 pm
Amanda Pampuro
/Courthouse News Service
To foster the Mexican gray wolves’ long term success in the Southwest, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife announced it will lift a 325-animal cap on the population according to a draft of the proposed rule published Friday. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2022, 9:23 am
Nicholas Iovino
/Courthouse News Service
The U.S. government must restore Endangered Species Act protections for thousands of gray wolves in most of the lower 48 states because it failed to fully consider threats to the carnivorous mammal’s population, a federal judge ruled Thursday. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 10, 2021, 12:00 pm
Kevin Pirehpour
/Cronkite News
In a peer-reviewed study published Jan. 21, researchers from several universities in Mexico, the University of Arizona and wildlife officials found that a suitable habitat exists in the southwestern U.S. and the Occidental and Oriental ranges of the Sierra Madre in northern Mexico where Mexican wolves can be restored to their “historical ecological role” in the wild.... Read more»
Posted Mar 29, 2019, 12:11 pm
Andrew Howard
/Cronkite News
The endangered Mexican gray wolf still has endangered species status – for now. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 21, 2017, 5:39 am
Isaac Windes
/Cronkite News
Environmentalists and ranchers are pointing fingers after government agents killed an endangered Mexican gray wolf last month for preying on cattle, the first wolf killed for depredation in 10 years.... Read more»
Posted Oct 19, 2013, 6:00 pm
Chris Cole
/Cronkite News Service
Following a request from U.S. Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain, federal officials have added a public hearing in Arizona on proposed changes to the management of endangered Mexican gray wolves.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 7, 2013, 10:07 am
Gerald Bourguet
/Cronkite News Service
A male Mexican gray wolf released into the forest of Eastern Arizona last month has been recaptured after failing to mate with a pack’s alpha female as officials had hoped.... Read more»
Posted Jan 9, 2013, 7:45 pm
Gerald Bourguet
/Cronkite News Service
Federal officials say the release of an adult male Mexican gray wolf will help add genetic diversity to the population of dozens reintroduced to the mountains of eastern Arizona. Environmentalists, however, say it isn't enough to help the species thrive in the state. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 11, 2012, 9:05 am
Joe Henke
/Cronkite News Service
For the second time in as many weeks, a Tucson-based conservation group has sued the federal government over endangered status of the Mexican gray wolf. The Center for Biological Diversity challenged the government's refusal to list the animals as a wolf subspecies. ... Read more»