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Valdez: Wolves are down, GOP wants ’em out

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Arizona should not be allowed to outweigh the ESA! Get these republicans out of office!! In a popularity contest, wolves will outrank cattle. Except at the Arizona Legislature. The number of endangered Mexican gray wolves is down. Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature could make things worse – despite their lawyer’s warning not to. First the numbers: The annual count population count released …

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Mexican gray wolf counts suspended after two darted animals die

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Accidentals deaths during capture-and-count operation add to significant losses from poaching to the endangered species. Accidents like this are not necessary! Federal and state wolf biologists in Arizona and New Mexico have temporarily halted an annual capture-and-count operation after the deaths of two endangered Mexican gray wolves that they shot with darts. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that …

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NM OKs wolves at Turner ranch as stopover to Mexico | Albuquerque Journal

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SANTA FE, N.M. — The state Game and Fish Commission on Friday unanimously approved a request by the Turner Endangered Species Fund to import and temporarily hold five Mexican gray wolves at Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in south-central New Mexico. The wolves are being transported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in …

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Survey: Mexican wolf population drops in 2015 – Grand Canyon News – Grand Canyon, Arizona

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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, …