The smallest gray wolf subspecies in North America, the Mexican gray wolf is also one of the rarest and most endangered mammals on the continent. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (and its predecessor agency) poisoned and trapped almost all Mexican wolves from the wild from 1915 until 1973; the last five survivors, captured between 1977 and 1980, were bred in captivity and their progeny reintroduced in 1998. At the beginning of 2018, experts announced that only 114 Mexican gray wolves had last been counted in the wild.
Wolves are being persecuted and neglected by the U.S. federal government.
Please act now in telling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect these noble, iconic animals.
KEY DOCUMENTS
2016 settlement setting a date for recovery plan preparation
2013 Center comments on federal "Proposed Revision to the Nonessential Experimental Population
of the Mexican Wolf"
2013
Center comments on possible changes to Mexican wolf management
2012 lawsuit to protect the Mexican wolf as a subspecies or distinct population segment
2012 lawsuit filed to speed reintroduction of endangered Mexican gray wolves to wild in Arizona, New Mexico
2012 letter to Interior Secretary requesting resumption of wolf releases to the wild
2011 letter to New Mexico governor
requesting continued support of wild wolves
2010 petition for national gray wolf
recovery plan
2010 comments on "warranted" finding
2010 federal finding that endangered listing may be warranted
2009 petition to list Mexican gray wolf as endangered subspecies or distinct population segment
2009 lawsuit won over release of depredation information
2009 letter requesting investigation of three wolf pup deaths
2004 petition for rule-making
to enhance prospects for recovery
1998 classification as “nonessential, experimental population”
1976 federal Endangered Species Act listing
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