EDGE OF EXTINCTION: MEXICAN GRAY WOLF
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Mexican Gray Wolves Near Extinction: Will the U.S. Help? January 12, 2010
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez (1986)
The title says it well: the natural history of wolves and their ecological importance--and the human history of the uneasy relationship beween wolves and men.
Click here: Extinction Crisis: Help Save Species Before It's Too Late
Click here: Defenders of Wildlife Campaign to Save America's Wolves:
Click here: Endangered Species Program | Laws & Policies | Endangered Species Act
Click here: New Mexico Abandons Efforts to Restore Mexican Gray Wolves
Click here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/05/15/1665931/gray-wolves-remain-protected-statewide.html
Click here: Gray Wolf Facts - Defenders of Wildlife - Defenders of Wildlife
BUSH REMOVES MEXICAN GRAY WOLF FROM ENDANGERED SPECIES:
The Mexican gray wolf, a sub species of the gray wolf, shares little else but its name with its faraway cousins. Its foothold in the wild is tenuous and survival may well depend on how much protection federal laws can offer to these animals.
Also known as Mexican wolves or , the Mexican gray wolf is the smallest of the five sub-species of gray wolves in North America. These mammals are also the most endangered, and conservationists estimate that there are only 175 Mexican gray wolves in the world today.
The Mexican gray wolf was exterminated in the wild in the Southwest by the 1930s. First characterized as an endangered individual species in 1976, the Fish and Wildlife Service created a species-wide designation for gray wolves in 1978, which included the Mexican wolves. In 1998, the government began reintroducing gray wolves along the Arizona-New Mexico line in a 4 million acre-plus territory interspersed with forests, private land and towns.
Reintroduction efforts have been greatly hampered by illegal shootings, complaints from ranchers who have lost cattle to the wolves and removal of wolves that have violated the program%u2019s three-strikes rule. This refers to a ruling that states that Federal agents can kill or trap and remove any wolf that has been involved in three livestock kills within a year.
The Mexican wolf predator control program has been condemned as preventing recovery, and biologists have called for more protection, which will allow more wolves to stay in the wild, roam freely and raise their pups. The shadow of a very ugly truth looms; one that speaks of governmental trapping and shooting of endangered Mexican gray wolves in order to appease the livestock industry.
Click here: Endangered Mexican gray wolf population grows for first time in four years - Defenders of Wildlife
Click here: The Mexican Wolf Recovery Program Home - USFWS
Click here: Return to the Wild: Releasing a Mexican Gray Wolf in the For... - Care2 News Network
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