State and federal wildlife agencies counted 319 endangered Mexican gray wolves across Arizona and New Mexico this past year. Up from 286 the previous year, it marks a decade of steady recovery.

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.

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The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit over the decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to not release a national recovery plan for gray wolves. The lawsuit is the latest volley in ...

WASHINGTON -- The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the United States was 286 at last count. That’s well below the number set by federal scientists to take it off the endangered species list.

SAN DIEGO — A gray wolf has been sighted in Los Angeles County near Lancaster, marking the first documented presence of the species in Southern California in more than 100 years, the California ...

For the first time in a century, biologists have documented a gray wolf in Los Angeles County over the weekend, a sign that these predators that were eliminated from the state by hunters are making a ...

A lone gray wolf padded quietly into Los Angeles County before dawn on Saturday — and made history. State biologists say the female wolf may be the first documented in Southern California in 100 years ...

This May 2, 2023, photo shows a Mexican gray wolf that was captured, given a radio collar and released back into the wild during the annual population count. (Photo by Mexican Wolf Interagency Field ...

An expert committee will analyze the scientific literature to answer the following two questions: 1. Is the Red wolf a taxonomically valid species? 2. Is the Mexican gray wolf a taxonomically valid ...