Environmental

Wolf Advocates Sue: ‘Recovery Plan’ Sets Mexican Wolves on Road to Extinction

Mexican gray wolf
Mexican gray wolf, Canis lupus baileyi, (Robin Silver/Center for Biological Diversity)

Plan violates Endangered Species Act in nine ways

Tucson, AZ —(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2018

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By: Brian Sweeney

Today Southwestern wolf advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in court over its 2017 Mexican wolf recovery plan, which violates the Endangered Species Act, excludes the best available science, and imposes an arbitrary population cap admittedly based on “social tolerance,” increasing endangered lobos’ extinction risk.

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