Wildlife advocates challenge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that fails endangered Mexican gray wolves

Oct 3, 2022 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, wildlife advocates filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for its failure to adopt an adequate management rule for recovering the critically endangered population of Mexican gray wolves as required by the Endangered Species Act. The...

Mexican wolves see improved but imperfect management rule

Oct 27, 2021 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a new rule for managing the recovery of endangered Mexican gray wolves. In a major improvement for lobos, the wild population would no longer be arbitrarily capped at 320 wolves. And the Service would have more...

Mexican wolf population up by 32 in 2020 count

Mar 18, 2020 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revealed that at least 163 Mexican gray wolves survive in the wilds of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. The annual count shows an increase of 32 individuals since last year’s total documented count of 131. The...

Mexican wolf count indicates true recovery is distant

Apr 8, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revealed that 131 Mexican gray wolves survive in the wilds of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. The annual count shows a small increase of 14 individuals from last year’s total documented count of 117....

Indiscriminate traps kill, injure endangered Mexican wolves, impeding recovery

Feb 13, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

As a bill to ban recreational and commercial trapping works its way through the New Mexico legislature, indiscriminate trapping is proving an enormous impediment for endangered Mexican gray wolves’ already uphill battle toward recovery. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife...

Court rejects flawed Mexican wolf management rule: Capping population, killing more wolves, cutting off habitat undermines recovery

Apr 3, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

TUCSON—Today, a judge ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) to go back to the drawing board on its deeply flawed 2015 Mexican wolf management rule. The court rejected the Service’s distortion of science to fit the political goals of...

Wolf advocates sue: ‘Recovery plan’ sets Mexican wolves on road to extinction

Jan 30, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Tucson, AZ —Today Southwestern wolf advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in court over its 2017 Mexican wolf recovery plan, which violates the Endangered Species Act, excludes the best available science, and imposes an arbitrary population cap...