5-Year Evaluation of the Mexican Wolf Recovery Strategy

5-Year Evaluation of the Mexican Wolf Recovery Strategy
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The evaluation considers progress on the recovery objectives for the Mexican wolf, assessment of each population’s progress towards interim abundance and release targets, comparisons between observed metrics and those predicted in 2017 modeling efforts, and next steps for furthering progress towards Mexican wolf recovery.

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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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Albuquerque,NM
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Southwest