The Grand Canyon region in northern Arizona and southern Utah has been identified by science as necessary for
Mexican wolf recovery.
We hope this year's increase is the start of
the Mexican wolf recovery program finally taking off.»
introduced legislation that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers — all proven hostile to
Mexican wolf recovery — the right to dictate the terms of the species» recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Species Act.
Arizona Senator Flake Introduces Bill to Supplant Science in Endangered
Mexican Wolf Recovery, Suppress Population
States and ranchers have proven hostile to
Mexican wolf recovery and have hampered the species» recovery.
Not exact matches
«The
Mexican gray
wolf recovery program has been hamstrung from the start, and this new management rule doesn't go nearly far enough to fix the problem,» said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, in a press release.
Michael Robinson, Conservation Advocate, focuses on the protection and
recovery of top predators like
Mexican gray
wolves and jaguars.
«The government's stubborn refusal to follow the best science on
wolf recovery is pushing the last
Mexican gray
wolves we have left way too close to the cliff of extinction.»
In the Southwest
Mexican gray
wolves also saw
recovery — but to a lesser degree.
In seeking separate recognition of
Mexican wolves through today's lawsuit, the Center hopes to force the agency to implement the reforms and complete a new
recovery plan, in the works since as far back as 1995.
January 2005 — The Center participated in a successful coalition lawsuit overturning a Service
wolf reclassification rule that downlisted
wolves to threatened, divided gray
wolves into distinct population segments, and precipitated a
recovery - planning process that would have established
Mexican gray
wolves outside their historic range instead of where they evolved.
«The increase in numbers is a sign that the
Mexican gray
wolf recovery program may finally be seeing some success,» said Robinson.
introduced legislation today that would give the states of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as ranchers, the right to dictate the terms of
Mexican gray
wolf recovery, undermining the scientific standards of the Endangered Species Act.
September 10, 2014 — A coalition of conservation groups, including the Center, put the Fish and Wildlife Service on notice that they intend to bring a lawsuit to hold the agency accountable for failing to produce and implement a valid
recovery plan for the imperiled
Mexican gray
wolf.
April 26, 2016 — A coalition of
wolf - conservation groups, environmental organizations and a retired federal
wolf biologist announced a court settlement requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare its long - delayed
recovery plan for
Mexican gray
wolves by November 2017.