Mexican Wolves News Today

Wildlife officials are sharing some good news this week as the endangered Mexican gray wolf population in the southwestern U.S. saw another year of growth.

A female Mexican wolf with a penchant for roaming has turned up in northern New Mexico near Valles Caldera National Preserve, hundreds of miles from the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Area.

The federal agency that investigates claims that a domestic animal has been killed by a predator has released new, stronger standards that it will use when deciding if a Mexican wolf is responsible for livestock death. Conservation groups have been pushing Wildlife Services, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to strengthen its standards […]

A federal judge on Friday chastised the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to produce a nationwide gray wolf recovery plan, saying individual plans for the Eastern timber wolf, Northern Rocky Mountain wolf, and Mexican wolf don't meet the requirements under the Endangered Species Act to develop nationwide plan for the gray wolf.

Just seven in existence. >> they are doing better and improving, but that is a fine line. disease comes through. something happens. they could be lost. >> reporter: there are now about 250 back in the wild, but a lack of genetic diversity makes rehoming pups from captivity necessary. is this wolf country? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: at barbara marks family ranch in blue arizona, wolves were a threat back in 1891, and she says they are targeting her calves again now. >> the numbers have increased...

Steps from infamous skid row. a number of homeless people frequent the store and many now wonder if one of them could be the winner. norah? >> norah: stay tuned. jamie yuccas, thank you so much. tonight, the extraordinary efforts being undertaken to bring back the once nearly extinct mexican gray wolf to americas southwest. but it is not without controversy, as ranchers fear their livelihoods are being threatened with more of their cattle being illed. in tonights "eye on america," cbss kris van ...

A female wolf who crossed the Interstate 40 boundary and was then captured near Taos has been released back into the wild. The Mexican Gray Wolf, who was named Asha by school children, spent the winter at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Sevilleta facility along with a male wolf that the agency hoped would […]

On a frigid morning in late January, biologists set out in a helicopter to begin the annual Mexican wolf population count with hopes of finding at least one more wolf than last year. Their painstaking work helps identify the number of wolves in Arizona and New Mexico and is vital to the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program that began 25 years ago when the animals were nearly extinct.

Wildlife conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over what they say is the agency's failure to follow federal law in approving a program to restore Mexican wolves to Arizona.

As the thermometers rose in Utica on Thursday, the staff of the Utica Zoo was hard at work trying to keep their animals cool. Executive Director Andria Heath says that