Survey: Mexican wolf population drops in 2015 Population declines between 2014 to 2015, U.S. Fish and Wildlife say strategy still viable…. PHOENIX – The Mexican wolf Interagency Field Team completed the annual year-end population survey, documenting a minimum of 97 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico at the end of 2015. At the end of 2014, …
Eva Sargent: More Mexican gray wolves needed in the wild
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must step up wolf recovery plan. They are only 37 years late at finalizing their plan!! The Mexican gray wolf (also known as “lobo”) is the most-endangered gray wolf in the world. This smaller subspecies of the gray wolf once ruled as top dog throughout the American Southwest until humans drove it to the brink …
After years of growth, Mexican gray wolf population declines
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal wildlife officials on Thursday defended their strategy for reintroducing Mexican gray wolves to the American Southwest despite recording the first decline in the population in four years. The annual survey released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows at least 97 wolves are spread among forested lands in southwestern New Mexico and southeast …
Wolf Supporters Urge Gov. Ducey to End State Interference with Wolf Recovery
BACKGROUND: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service convened a recovery planning team in 2010 that included a Science and Planning Subgroup made up of some of the top wolf experts in the country. The Science and Planning Subgroup developed draft recommendations for recovery of the Mexican gray wolf based on the best available science, which included the following: In addition …