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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.
As of 2023, the Mexican wolf population stood at 257, a big gain for a species that was on the brink of extinction.. The number is a stark contrast to decades prior, when the species was close to ...
There were 257 wolves surviving in the range in 2023, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a 6% increase from 242 wolves counted in 2022. There were 144 wolves in New Mexico last year ...
The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the southwestern U.S. is still growing, but environmental groups are warning that inbreeding and the resulting genetic crisis within the endangered ...
Legal challenges are pending in federal court that focus on the rules governing wolf recovery, namely the federal regulation that requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove all Mexican ...
The Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) was reintroduced to Arizona, New Mexico, and the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico in 1998. Reintroduced Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico are protected under the ESA and, as of late 2002, number 28 individuals in eight packs. [62]
The Mexican Wolf was reintroduced into the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona in 1998 as part of a captive breeding program. [128] There were at least 42 wild Mexican wolves in the southwest United States in 2008. [128] [149] In 2014, there were around 83 Mexican wolves in the wild. [150]
The bulk of Mexican wolves are contained within a recovery area extending through Arizona and New Mexico south of Interstate 40 and north of Interstate 10. Still, frustrations between ranchers ...