Your moment of critically endangered cuteness. Join Mexican gray wolf Trumpet and her now 17-week-old pups via live webcam > http://bit.ly/2G8GWcL | Wolf Conservation Center

Mexican gray wolves roam the wilds of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico. With fewer than 100 of them in the wild, these wolves are one of the rarest and most endangered species on the continent. By the middle of the 20th century nearly all known wild Mexican gray #wolves were exterminated by the federal government at the behest of the cattle industry. Later, the last 5 known remaining wild wolves were captured for a captive-breeding program. In 1990 the Center for Biological Diversity filed

Mexican wolves are well equipped for the snow! Historically, Mexican wolves were common in the mountain forests, grasslands, and shrublands of central and northern Mexico and southwestern United States. They did not live in low deserts, like their relative, the coyote. Mexican wolves aren't common today. They are the most endangered gray wolves in the world. #LoboWeek | Wolf Conservation Center

On this day 27 years ago, the Mexican wolf was reintroduced into the Blue Range Recovery Area. 🐺 March 29th, 1998: 11 wolves were released into Arizona and New Mexico. Today there are a minimum of 286 wolves in this population. 🐺 A minimum of 60 packs were reported, 37 in New Mexico and 23 in Arizona. 🐺164 pups were born in the wild in 2024. “Prior to the first release into the wild, many thought that a successful free-ranging wild Mexican wolf population was impossible, but as we can see fro

Dear Mexican wolf pup, May you dream of a world where vibrant populations Mexican wolves roam landscapes across the American southwest; where lobos no longer cower on the edge of extinction; and where every child learns of, and respects, your essential kin.