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Mexican Gray Wolf

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to demand compliance with new measures to recover the Mexican gray wolf population that once stretched across greater Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Read more»

A Mexican gray wolf

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»

Poaching is the top cause of death among Mexican gray wolves. From 1998-2019, 105 wolves are known to have been killed and a similar number have disappeared. There are now fewer than 250 lobos in the wild, Earthjustice said in a news release.

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»

Researchers fitted this  Mexican gray wolf with a radio collar in 2018. Tracking the animals in the wild is part of a decades-long effort to reintroduce the subspecies, which was nearly extinct in the 1970s.

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»

A Mexican gray wolf in a 2006 photo. There were 114 wolves recorded in Arizona and New Mexico at the beginning of 2018, the most since reintroduction of the endangered animal began in 1998.

The endangered Mexican gray wolf still has endangered species status – for now. Read more»

There were 113 wolves recorded in Arizona and New Mexico last year, the most since reintroduction of the endangered species began in 1998, but the killing of one for preying on cattle has environmental groups upset.

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»

A Mexican gray wolf at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico in 2011.

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»

A Mexican gray wolf at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico in 2011.

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»

A Mexican gray wolf at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico in 2011.

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»

A captive Mexican gray wolf at the Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility in New Mexico in 2011. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has declined to identified the wolves, found in Arizona and New Mexico, as separate from the larger gray wolf population.

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»