It’s #LoboWeek! Twenty-five years ago this week, Mexican gray wolves were reintroduced in the U.S. Southwest. A recent wolf census found 241 of these incredible carnivores living in Arizona and New Mexico — up from zero in the late 1970s. biodiv.us/3LRudQs This improvement is hard won, but there’s still work to do. In order for Mexican gray #wolves to truly survive and thrive, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs to bolster their declining genetic diversity and resume the releases of family

Once numbering in the thousands, Mexican Gray Wolves were wiped out in the United States by the mid-1970s. 25 years ago, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, led by Jamie Rappaport Clark, President & CEO of Defenders of Wildlife, released 11 #MexicanGrayWolves into the wild. #LoboWeek | Defenders of Wildlife