2025 Interagency Field Team Work Plan for the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program

All work directly supports the main goals of the Mexican Wolf Recovery Program. Those goals are: 1) population monitoring, 2) conflict management, 3) population genetic management and monitoring, and 4) increasing social tolerance for Mexican wolf recovery through responsive management, outreach, education, and peer-reviewed scientific literature.

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A mexican wolf with a blue radio collar lays on the ground looking behind it
Once common throughout parts of the Southwestern U.S. and Mexico, the Mexican wolf was all but eliminated from the wild by the 1970s due to conflicts with livestock. In 1976, the Mexican wolf was listed as endangered and a binational captive breeding program was initiated soon after to save this...
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