Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Requires Emergency Actions Due to Drought

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Marine Corps, the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service will implement collaborative short- and long-term emergency actions in southwestern Arizona in response to drought-related declines in endangered Sonoran pronghorn. In addition to other ongoing long-term recovery measures, the partners are stepping up immediate relief efforts to alter and reverse the recent declines in the U.S. population of the subspecies.

"This is a red alert situation," said H. Dale Hall, Regional Director for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service