Urge the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Recover the Mexican Gray Wolf!

The Mexican gray wolf, or lobo, is one of the most endangered carnivores in the world. After lobos were nearly wiped out, reintroduction began in 1998 in remote areas of New Mexico and Arizona, including such iconic Wildernesses as the Gila Wilderness, and the Blue Range Wilderness and Primitive Area. Since then, recovery has been slow and turbulent.

In 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided that the only wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the U.S. was not “essential” under the Endangered Species Act to the recovery of Mexican gray wolves as a species. Conservationists sued, and in 2018, a U.S. district judge told USFWS to go back to the drawing board to write a new management rule for the lobo.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently seeking comments on that new Mexican wolf management rule.  Wilderness Watch believes wolves need and deserve the maximum protection possible. This is our chance to make sure the agency gets recovery right, so please raise your voice!

Urge the Fish and Wildlife Service to do its job to protect and recover lobos by designating them as an “essential” population, releasing more adult captive wolves into the wild, proactively reducing conflicts with livestock, and protecting wolves from poaching and other human-caused death. Comments are due June 15.