Groups File Suit to Protect Mexican Gray Wolves in New Mexico and Arizona

Challenge federal policies that further imperil endangered wild wolves

TUCSON–(ENEWSPF)–July 2, 2015.  A coalition of local, regional and national conservation watchdog groups filed suit today to ensure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service adopts policies that give endangered Mexican gray wolves a fair shot at recovery in their historic U.S. range.

In January 2015, USFWS issued a final rule that refuses to consider the only wild population of Mexican wolves as “essential” to the species’…