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Trappers,
several hunting groups, the livestock industry, and now, 12 States’ Attorneys
General (Arizona,
Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana,
Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah) have
intervened in WildEarth Guardians’ legal fight to restrict or prohibit trapping
in the range of the highly-endangered Mexican wolf in New Mexico. Already these
cruel, dangerous traps have harmed over a dozen Mexican gray wolves. Guardians
filed an appeal to the 10th Circuit Court in December 2012 to overturn that
state’s approval to allow trapping in lobo country.
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The federal government tried to cover-up the illegal murder
of a critically endangered Mexican gray wolf by one of its agents. An employee
of “Wildlife Services,” the euphemistically named, taxpayer-funded program of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture may have shot a highly-endangered Mexican
wolf in New Mexico during January according to a recent story in The
Albuquerque Journal. WildEarth Guardians continues to shine a spotlight on this
rogue agency's secretive and cruel practices, and we invite you to send your
representatives an email today demanding they bring this matter under a full
federal investigation.
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WildEarth Guardians, volunteers, and seventeen members of
the Great Old Broads for Wilderness gathered in the Gila National Forest in May
to examine fencing and stream conditions impacted by U.S. Forest Service
approved livestock grazing in the Mexican wolf recovery area. What we found was
not good. Cattle were found wandering into sensitive riparian habitat, home to
imperiled species like the Southwest willow flycatcher and the Mexican wolf. We
documented all downed fences and other permit violations and this information
will be used in our comments targeting grazing reform in the Gila National
Forest.
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M1133, the Mexican wolf who was released into Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona in January, and recaptured three weeks later, was rereleased in May only to be reapprehended because he wandered 75 miles from his assigned mate. Another wolf pair, with no previous wild experience,
were also released in Arizona in late April. The releases come amidst
attempts to offset illegal mortalities in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery
Area and to improve genetic diversity for the rarest mammal in North
America.
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Slider Photo credits: Mexican wolf: USFWS. Mexican wolf and pups: Endangered Wolf Center. Grazing: George Wuethner. Wolf kiss: Deb Simon. Thumbprint Photo credits: Mexican wolf amputee: Mexican wolf Interagency Field Team. Mexican wolf: Fotolia.com. Cattle roam the Gila: Bryan Bird. Halfmoon pack transport: USFWS.
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