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Mexican Gray Wolf

Center for Biological Diversity

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Excerpt from this story from KTAR.COM:

The latest population census for the endangered Mexican gray wolf native to Arizona released last week, and the results indicate an increase in wild individuals for the eighth straight year.

However, conservation and advocacy groups didn’t share an overwhelming optimism for the update, warning a lack of genetic diversity shows there is a long way to go before the species stabilizes in its ancestral habitat.

Jim deVos, the Mexican wolf coordinator for the Arizona Game and Fish Department, told KTAR News 92.3 FM that genetic diversity is the greatest challenge wolf managers are experiencing now.

“In the aggregate, the 2023 data points out that Mexican wolf recovery has come a long way since the first release,” deVos said in a statement. “Each year, the free-roaming Mexican wolf population numbers increase and the areas they occupy expands. Genetic management using pups from captivity is also showing results.”

“I no longer worry that all the wolves could suddenly disappear,” Michael Robinson, a senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. “While that’s clearly a good thing, the government’s genetic mismanagement still threatens to doom this unique, arid-lands subspecies of the gray wolf.”

The Fish and Wildlife Service announced a minimum of 257 wild Mexican wolves across Arizona and New Mexico in 2023, up 6% from 242 the previous year. Arizona homes at least 113 individuals and 23 of the 60 wild packs, according to the survey.

There remain 350 Mexican wolves in more than 60 facilities in the U.S. and Mexico under the Mexican Wolf Saving Animals From Extinction program, FWS said.

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Wolf, Black Wolf, Mexican Wolf - Buffon (1825)

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(via Mexican gray wolf numbers top 200 for the first time in recovery)

For the first time since efforts began to reintroduce the species into the wild, the number of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico has surpassed 200, with at least 241 wild wolves documented in 2022. Of those, 105 were counted in eastern Arizona.

This year’s count, released Tuesday, is up 23% from 2021, when the population minimum was recorded at 196. This marks the seventh consecutive year of population growth and a more than doubling in size since 2017, as interagency recovery and conservation work continue.

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Beautiful Mexican Grey Wolf this morning at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. I’m not a big fan of “Zoos” but the AZDM does a great job. Thousands of people visit each month and having animals like the Mexican Grey Wolf might just influence kids in the future to support and participate in Conservation and environmental careers.

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Crystallizing Dangerwood III, mixed-media on watercolor paper.

Rheumatoid Disease and chronic pain can kiss my ass.

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things that make me scream and explode

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She introduced in 2019, she had to get her leg amputated because of a fracture she while she was in the wild.

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Stopped at the border: That would be a rare Mexican gray wolf, thwarted in his attempts to head northward looking for a mate. The impediment was a section of a new 30-foot-high border fence, replacing a low porous fence that had been meant to stop cars and trucks from illegal crossings. After heading 23 miles west to get around the fence, the wolf gave up and turned back south.

PHOTOGRAPH BY CLAUDIO CONTRERAS, NATURE PICTURE LIBRARY

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Excerpt from this press release from the Center for Biological Diversity:

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee today urged the United States to stop border wall construction. The committee also called on the United States to work with Mexico to assess damage from the wall to a World Heritage site in Mexico and adjacent protected lands in the United States and recommend ways to restore the landscape and wildlife habitat.

Today’s resolution approved by the committee, the official decision-making body under the World Heritage Convention, follows a 2017 petition from conservation groups and representatives of the Tohono O’odham of Sonora, Mexico. That petition sought “in danger” status for El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve on the U.S.-Mexico border. This 2,700-square-mile World Heritage site shares a border with Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in the U.S.

“This is an important step toward repairing the devastation the border wall has done to communities and wildlife,” said Alex Olivera, a senior scientist and the Mexico representative for the Center for Biological Diversity. “We share a responsibility to protect wildlife in the Sonoran desert and reverse the horrific damage wall construction has inflicted on both sides of the border.”

The committee also recommended ways to restore the landscape and habitat for borderlands plants and wildlife, from Mexican gray wolves to Sonoran pronghorn.

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Wild west🐃🏜️🐺

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(via Captive-born Mexican gray wolf is killed in New Mexico)

A Mexican gray wolf that conservation advocates say was genetically significant to the species' recovery in the wild has been found dead in New Mexico.

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed the death of the captive-bred and released Mexican gray wolf known as No.1693. The wolf was discovered on Oct. 8. Fish and Wildlife officials have not released details on his killing because it is still under investigation by law enforcement.

The death came just days after the Fish and Wildlife agency announced a revision to the Mexican gray wolf recovery plan with proposed actions to reduce human-caused wolf mortality.

Mexican wolf No. 1693 was released into the wild in 2018 when he was just 15 days old. He was cross-fostered into a wild wolf den in an effort to increase the genetic diversity of the wild population of wolves, a step biologists say is critical to the survival of the species.

more idiots killing critically important wildlife

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Alpha Male 1044 of the Hawks Nest Pack.

A small oil painting on canvas in memorial of my first encounter with a wild Mexican gray wolf family, and their radio-collared patriarch who was later shot by poachers.

This painting is in the collection of a friend in Finland, and was published in a small pro-wolf zine over there. In Finland, the political controversy surrounding wild wolves is very parallel to our own here in New Mexico and Arizona.

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Hi Mac! Mac is a Mexican Gray Wolf!

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Mexican gray wolf by Jeff Wiles

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