Environmentalists on Wednesday protested U.S. government plans to transfer an endangered Mexican gray wolf captured in New Mexico to Mexico, saying it should be allowed to roam free and repopulate the Rockies.
near Taos, New Mexico, on Sunday after heading further north than any other Mexican wolf recorded since the species' 1998 reintroduction after near extinction.was to capture and transfer the wolves once they left a recovery area and trekked north of I40, the interstate highway running through the upper half of New Mexico.
Ranchers have long complained the wolves eat their livestock and endanger their livelihoods. The species' recovery has been hampered by hundreds of illegal and legal killings, the Sierra Club says. The tagged wolf left her pack in late 2022 and was tracked north, making it within 50 miles of the Colorado border before being apprehended from a helicopter.
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