Members of the Mexican wolf Interagency Field Team completed the annual yearend population survey, documenting a minimum of 113 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico at the end of 2016. The tally compares with a minimum of 97 wild wolves in 2015. “We are encouraged by these numbers, but these 2016 results demonstrate we are still …
14 Mexican wolves confirmed dead in 2016
ALBUQUERQUE — More than a dozen endangered Mexican gray wolves were killed in 2016, including two at the hands of wildlife officials who were capturing and collaring the animals as part of an annual survey of the struggling population. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed this week that 14 wolf deaths were documented last year, marking the most in any …
Court Settlement Provides Hope for Mexican Gray Wolves
Court Settlement Provides Hope for Mexican Gray Wolves Victory: Forty years after Endangered Species Act protection, government required to prepare recovery plan TUSCON, AZ – A coalition of wolf conservation groups, environmental organizations and a retired federal wolf biologist today announced a court settlement requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) to prepare a long-delayed recovery plan for …
It’s Time to Bring Wolves Back to the Mojave Desert
In the wake of major land protections in the California desert, there’s no better opportunity to think about reintroducing Mexican wolves. One day in 1922, rancher Pauline Watson found something surprising on a trap line she’d set for coyotes near her ranch in the Mojave Desert’s New York Mountains. It wasn’t a coyote. At 100 pounds, it was twice as …