The Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team has completed its annual count of Mexican wolves living in the wild in the Southwest, ...

Such killings are not new but are typically carried out by wildlife officials.

The population of Mexican gray wolves living in Arizona and New Mexico rose from a count of 286 documented individuals at the ...

The number of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico grew to at least 319 in 2025, as the species inches closer to possible downlisting from endangered to threatened.

State and federal wildlife agencies counted 319 endangered Mexican gray wolves across Arizona and New Mexico this past year.

A newly revealed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service document allows Catron County ranchers to kill any one endangered Mexican gray wolf who happens to be in the area of two grazing allotments near Quemado ...

Arizona and New Mexico wildlife agencies recently reported that the population of endangered Mexican gray wolves grew by 33 wolves last year.

The most recent count of Mexican gray wolves found more than 300 in the wild, marking 10 consecutive years of growth. Over the past decade, the number of the endangered wolves observed in the wild ...

This story was updated on January 8, 2026. 2025 was an eventful year for Mexican wolves. The imperiled predators — a subspecies of gray wolf reintroduced to the Southwest in 1998 — appeared to be ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado Parks and Wildlife re-released a wolf into Grand County this week after it had traveled into New Mexico, according to a news release. The New Mexico ...

A Copper Creek wolf was released in Grand County on Thursday, Dec. 11, after being returned to Colorado by New Mexico wildlife officials. The male wolf, collared and tagged as 2403, is among those ...