FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) – In a story Jan. 12 about a Mexican gray wolf program, The Associated Press reported erroneously that livestock owners could kill any wolf that is biting, wounding or killing livestock on federal land. The provision includes dog owners and applies only to non-federal land. A corrected version of the story is below: via Correction: Endangered Wolves …
What’s a wolf to do? Go vegan, apparently
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new rules for Mexican gray wolf recovery offers a frustrating one-step-forward, two-steps-back approach. Not surprisingly, it’s being met with a lawsuit from environmental groups. The federal agency would have been wiser to do right by the wolves instead of bowing to those who have long opposed reintroduction. OUR VIEW: What’s a wolf to do? …
Mexican Wolves Finally Get Endangered Species Status | Extinction Countdown, Scientific American Blog Network
North America’s smallest and rarest wolves will finally have the full protection of the Endangered Species Act. Well, almost. Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) nearly went extinct 40 years ago. After decades of hunting and persecution the last five wild members of the subspecies were rounded up in 1973 and placed in an emergency captive breeding program. There they …
Conservationists Take Aim at Flawed New Rule on Mexican Gray Wolf Management
Conservationists Take Aim at Flawed New Rule on Mexican Gray Wolf Management Changes Unjustifiably Cap Wolf Population at 325, Preclude Recovery North of I-40, Loosen Restrictions on Killing Wolves TUCSON, Ariz.— Conservationists say they’ll fight provisions in a new federal rule that caps the population of endangered Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest at numbers too low for recovery, bans them from needed recovery habitat, …