Wolf Conservation Center Press Releases
For immediate release: July 8, 2025 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Thirty-six conservation groups representing millions of members and supporters from across the United States today sent a formal letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that requested the immediate release of Mexican gray wolf Asha, her mate, and their five puppies. The wolf family was slated to be released on the Ladder Ranch in June but has been subjected to unexplained delay. The Caldera Pack consists of a female, named Asha in an online youth wolf-naming contest, her mate Arcadia, and their five pups Kachina, Aspen, Sage, Kai and Aala. Asha was born in the wild and became an icon in 2023 after she twice crossed the Fish and Wildlife Service’s arbitrary northern boundary for Mexican wolf movements marked by Interstate 40. She has been captured once before and released. She was captured again after her second…
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TUCSON, Ariz.— U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) introduced legislation this week to remove the Mexican gray wolf from the endangered species list, which would effectively end recovery efforts for this unique, highly imperiled subspecies. Removing Endangered Species Act protections from Mexican wolves would stop releases of wolves from captivity to diversify the gene pool of wild wolves, end federal investigations into possible wolf predation on livestock, reduce federal funding that supports compensation for livestock losses, shut down monitoring of the wolves and remove federal prohibitions on killing them. “Bypassing the Endangered Species Act to strip all protections from beleaguered Mexican gray wolves and leave them vulnerable to Arizona’s shoot-on-sight laws would cause a massacre,” said Michael Robinson, senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The Southwest’s ecology would suffer, and we’d be left with a sadder, drabber landscape if Gosar and the livestock industry’s cruel vision for wolf extermination becomes…
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Entire Family of Wandering Wolf “Asha” To Be Freed Together in New Mexico Albuquerque, NM – Mexican gray wolf puppies born in captivity at Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge received names this week from student submissions via an online contest. The five puppies– Kachina, Aspen, Sage, Kai, and Aala– and their parents Asha and Arcadia are slated to be released in New Mexico. Asha made headlines in 2023 when she twice ventured north of Interstate 40, the arbitrary boundary beyond which Mexican wolves are banned. After her second capture near the Valles Caldera National Preserve, she was paired in captivity with a male named Arcadia, and officials pledged to release them after pups were born. Conservationists are calling the new family the Caldera Pack and hope that their release will add genetic diversity to the genetically imperiled wild population. The students who named these pups explained the meanings behind their proposals.…
Read MoreFor Immediate Release August 9, 2022 Contact: Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project, (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org Perry Wheeler, Earthjustice, (202) 792-6211, pwheeler@earthjustice.org Sarah McMillan, WildEarth Guardians, (406) 549-3895, smcmillan@wildearthguardians.org Maggie Howell,…
Read MoreRare Wolf Pup Born at WCC Joins Wild Family On May 3, 2022, Mexican gray wolf Trumpet gave birth to three pups at the Wolf Conservation Center, each no larger…
Read MoreOn May 3, 2022, Mexican gray wolf Trumpet gave birth to three pups at the Wolf Conservation Center (South Salem, NY), each no larger than one pound in size. Although…
Read MoreNew Federal Management Rule Still Falls Short on Genetic Diversity by Rejecting Science-Based Reforms SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed today that it will eliminate its…
Read MoreFor Immediate Release January 27, 2022 Contact: Sandy Bahr, Chapter Director for Sierra Club’s Grand Canyon (Arizona) Chapter, 602-999-5790, Sandy.Bahr@sierraclub.org Patricia Estrella, Representative, New Mexico, Defenders of Wildlife, 505-395-7334, PEstrella@defenders.org…
Read MoreFor immediate release October 27, 2021 Media contacts: Emily Renn, Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project (928)202-1325; emily@gcwolfrecovery.org Greta Anderson, Western Watersheds Project (520)623-1878; greta@westernwatersheds.org Sandy Bahr, Sierra Club – Grand…
Read MoreDecision forces U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to fix flawed recovery plan October 15, 2021 – Tucson, AZ– In response to a lawsuit by conservation groups, a judge has ruled…
Read MoreEndangered Mexican gray wolf Anubis (m2520) is at risk of capture and translocation just for roaming the forests north of Interstate 40. A solitary subadult male Mexican gray wolf has…
Read MoreMore than 50 wildlife conservation groups, including the Wolf Conservation Center, today asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to immediately restore Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections to gray wolves…
Read MoreNationwide Delisting Poised to Have Deadly Implications for Wolves OCTOBER 29, 2020 — The U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced today that the Trump administration is officially stripping federal Endangered…
Read MoreWashington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Director Kelly Susewind has reauthorized WDFW staff to kill the two remaining adult members of the Wedge wolf pack to protect cows. WDFW…
Read MoreFor Immediate Release June 15, 2020Contact: Sandy Bahr, Grand Canyon Chapter Sierra Club, (602) 999-5790, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org Rebecca Bullis, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-0295, rbullis@defenders.org Kelly Burke, Wild Arizona, (928) 606-7870,…
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