Mexican Wolf. The Mexican wolf is an endangered-species rarity in that its major recovery needs are not habitat management and restoration. Rather, social tolerance is the primary recovery challenge.

Education and outreach remains a critical component of the Mexican wolf recovery effort. Mexican wolves had once disappeared completely from Arizona and New Mexico. By the end of 2016, surveys counted at least 113 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico.

For centuries in Arizona, the call belonged to the Mexican wolf. But as the area attracted more settlers, the Mexican wolf was seen as the enemy of progress and efforts to eliminate it from the state were successful.

The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi), also known as the lobo mexicano (or, simply, lobo) [a] is a subspecies of gray wolf (C. lupus) native to eastern and southeastern Arizona and western and southern New Mexico (in the United States) and fragmented areas of northern Mexico.

The Mexican wolf is the rarest subspecies of gray wolf in North America. Once common throughout portions of the southwestern United States, the Mexican wolf was all but eliminated from the wild by the 1970s. In 1977, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initiated efforts to …

Mar 5, 2024 · State and federal wildlife agencies counted at least 257 Mexican gray wolves in the wild, according to figures released Tuesday in the annual census of the endangered species.

The Mexican gray wolf once roamed throughout most of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico; however, persecution and, eventually, poisoning began shortly after European settlement. On March 29, 1998, eleven captive-reared wolves were …

Nov 18, 2024 · A female Mexican gray wolf, which is protected by federal law under the Endangered Species Act, was found dead on Nov. 7 in an area northwest of Flagstaff, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and...

In the early years of this century, agents of the federal and state governments combined in an ambitious campaign to rid Arizona and New Mexico of what was generally regarded as a dangerous pest: the lobo, or Mexican gray wolf, Canis lupus baileyi. Those agents were remarkably successful.

Habitat: Native only to Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico, Mexican gray wolves live in mountainous forests, woodlands, and desert; Status: Critically endangered; Population Trend: Increasing; Diet: Wolves are carnivores who eat primarily ungulates (hoofed animals) like deer, moose, and elk. To survive, they will also eat smaller animals like ...