Fighting back for once!
Democrats seek changes to wolf program. Albuquerque Journal
Continue Reading →Only 39 Mexican wolves remain in the wild after several poaching incidents.
Conservation groups are asking the USFWS to retrieve telemetry equipment from ranchers and change the frequencies of the radio collars on the wolves so that people with receivers cannot find wolves and kill them. They argue, correctly in my estimation, that the radio [...]
Continue Reading →Change could result in greater protections for Mexican Gray Wolf
The USFWS has announced that they will review the status of the Mexican Gray Wolf as an endangered subspecies. The reclassification would require the Service to rewrite their recovery plan and designate critical habitat.
Mexican Gray Wolf May Qualify for Endangered Species Protection [...]
Continue Reading →Governor Richardson Issues Trapping Restrictions in Lobo Country
Governor Stands Up For Mexican Wolves .
WildEarth Guardians – Press Release
More on the dead Mexican wolves
One possibility that might be considered by the investigators is the possibility that those with government issued telemetry equipment may not be using it to kill the wolves but they may be giving the frequencies to those who are.
Gray wolf shot in AZ; officials probe use of [...]
Continue Reading →ANOTHER MEXICAN WOLF FOUND ILLEGALLY SHOT IN ARIZONA
USFWS contact: Tom Buckley, 505-248-6455
Arizona Game and Fish Department contact: Bruce Sitko, 928-367-4281
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Law Enforcement Agents recovered the body of another dead Mexican wolf on Thursday July 15, 2010. The wolf, AM 1189, is the second adult male of [...]
Continue Reading →Two Dead, another missing
Two alpha males Mexican gray wolves have been found dead under suspicious circumstances and another collared alpha male wolf is missing. This is a disaster for the struggling population of wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.
US investigates wolf killings.
Tony Davis Arizona Daily Star
Groups Request End to Trapping & Snaring in Mexican Wolf Habitat in NM
14 Mexican Wolves have Been Trapped by Private Trappers – Press Release – WildEarth Guardians
Santa Fe, NM. Today, WildEarth Guardians, the Sierra Club, and Southwest Environmental Center petitioned federal agencies and requested an emergency halt to all trapping and [...]
Continue Reading →Cumulative impacts of many factors cited
A new report by the Us Fish and Wildlife Service assesses the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program and the news isn’t good.
Cumulatively there are many risks for the population. Among them are poaching, too many controls related to depredation, small litter sizes and low pup survival possibly related [...]
Continue Reading →Conservation groups seek endangered species status. Judge tells USFWS to make up their mind quickly-
The restoration of the Mexican wolf under the experimental, non-essential rule that guided the restoration of wolves to the Northern Rockies has been a fiasco. Groups want to give the rare wolf fully endangered status, which has more teeth. USFWS [...]
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