Dear Guardian,

Mexican wolves desperately need your voice. The long overdue plan to guide recovery efforts in the coming decades was just released and it falls woefully short of actually recovering lobos.

Please sign our citizens' comment letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the flawed draft plan by August 28th.

The draft “recovery” plan reads more like a draft extinction plan dreamed up by the wolves’ most hostile opponents. It’s so fundamentally flawed that we cannot possibly include all of our concerns in this short email.

The plan gives away decision-making authority over vital releases of captive-bred wolves into the wild to the anti-carnivore states of New Mexico and Arizona. It actively prevents lobos from reclaiming historic habitats, and artificially caps the wild population at just 320-380 wolves when the best science shows we need at least 750 wolves to declare the species recovered. And it settles for lobos recovering only in Mexico.

Sign our citizens’ comment letter and tell the Service to put science and the law ahead of political pettiness. Then take a few moments to write your own comments here.

Fewer than 113 lobos remain in the wild in the U.S., and those struggling survivors are facing a severe genetic crisis and devastatingly high rates of human-caused deaths. Mexican wolves need all the help they can get to successfully recover. Let’s tell the Service to embrace a recovery plan that places science and the lobos’ best interests first.

We will not sit idly by while our federal officials surrender the fight for Mexican wolves. Please join us in telling the Service to support welcoming lobos home to the American Southwest.

For the wild,

 

Bethany Cotton
Wildlife Program Director
WildEarth Guardians
bcotton@wildearthguardians.org

photo credit U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service