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Capturing wolves is a key component of the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program, helping with monitoring wolf movement, reproduction, and recovery in the wild. To better understand how capturing aids recovery, it’s helpful to understand how wolves are captured and everything that happens before they are released back into the wild.
There are many reasons that gray wolves (Canis lupus) were the first species to be domesticated by humans. Wolves share with humans a similar family structure and accept joining human groups more easily than species that do not live in large extended social groups, such as coyotes (Canis latrans) (Lopez 1978; Schleidt 1998; Haber and Holleman ...
The Mexican gray wolf, or lobo, is the most endangered gray wolf in North America and 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. Since then, recovery has been slow and turbulent. In 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided that the only wild population of Mexican gray ...
16 de nov. de 2022 · From the Tucson Sentinel: Mexican wolves nearly vanished from the Southwest in the early 1900s, but reintroduction efforts begun nearly 25 years ago have brought them back from the brink of extinction. An updated recovery plan aims to further protect the endangered wolves through increased law enforcement, education and outreach to communities near where the wolves live.
Humans are the biggest threat to this species. Mexican gray wolves were common about 100 years ago, but then many wolves were killed due to competition for the same resources as humans. In the late 1800s, once railroads were built, large numbers of settlers moved to the southwest.
28 de mar. de 2019 · Mexican gray wolves were extirpated from the wild in the United States in the mid-1970s. Then 20 years ago they were reintroduced, amidst much controversy, into a small portion of their former range. Controversies continue today regarding both their taxonomic validity and the management strategies used in the captive breeding program and in the extant wild reintroduced population.
Human-caused mortality. Human-caused mortality is one of three key threats to the Mexican wolf that need to be alleviated during the recovery effort. (Other threats include small population size and genetic issues). “Human-caused mortality” is a term that encompasses several types of mortality and is a concept widely used in wolf conservation.
