Memorandum of Understanding For Mexican Wolf Recovery and Management

This Memorandum of Understanding (hereafter MOU) establishes a framework for collaboration that enables the signatory agencies to implement a long-term, scientifically based program to reintroduce and manage Mexican wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) in Arizona and New Mexico to contribute toward the recovery of this endangered subspecies, in accordance with the Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, First Revision (Recovery Plan). This MOU is made and entered into by and among the following Federal, state, Tribal, and county agencies.

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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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