Month: March 2014
Nearly 500,000 More Americans Speak Out Against Federal Plan to Strip Wolves of Protections
Scientific Peer Review Questioning Wolf Proposal Prompts Many to Write Administration WASHINGTON – More than 460,000 Americans filed official comments calling on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to…
Wolf Conservation Center Preps for Endangered Mexican Gray Wolf Pups
The Mexican gray wolf or “lobo” is America’s most endangered gray wolf. At last count only 83 remained in the wild and over 250 lobos live in captivity. The captive…
Global Howls of Support for the Lobo
The Wolf Conservation Center invited you to join #LoboWeek, a national movement to celebrate the critically endangered Mexican gray wolf, and you heard our howls! With your support, the WCC…
Mountains Understand Lobos. Can We?
Sixteen years ago 11 captive-reared Mexican wolves were released to the wild for the first time in the Blue Range Recovery Area of Arizona and New Mexico. Missing from the…
Recovering the Critically Endangered Lobo from Captivity
Mexican Gray Wolf’s Brush with Extinction In the late 1800s, there was a national movement to eradicate wolves and other large predators from the wild landscape in the United States.…
A New Study Reveals What Mexican Gray Wolves Need to Survive
On March 29, 1998, 11 captive-reared Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) were released to the wild for the first time in the Blue Range Recovery Area of Arizona and…
Wolf Conservation Center Initiates Northeast Collaboration for Wolf Recovery
Northeast Wolf Coalition Calls on FWS to Withdraw Gray Wolf Proposals The Northeast Wolf Coalition, a group of national, regional and local conservation organizations, submitted a statement today to U.S.…
Critically Endangered Mexican Wolf Finds Home in New York
M1133 was born at the California Wolf Center in 2008 and lived at New Mexico’s Sevilleta Wolf Management Facility since his puppyhood. Like most of the Mexican wolves at the…
Debate Among Scientists Over “Wolf Effect” in Yellowstone
The The New York Times op-ed by Arthur Middleton questioning the strength of evidence supporting the wolf-generated trophic cascade in Yellowstone has spawned a fire-storm of debate in the scientific…