Mexican Gray Wolf Livestock Kills Are Rising Rapidly in Arizona and New Mexico

Endangered Mexican gray wolves, reintroduced by the federal government to parts of the Southwestern United States, have killed nearly as many cows and calves in the first four months of 2019 as they did all of last year, causing an increase in tensions among U.S. wildlife managers, environmentalists, and rural residents. The federal government reports the wolves killed 88 domestic animals in Arizona and New Mexico from January through April of this year. If this pace of livestock killings continues, the wolves will far surpass the nearly 100 livestock kills confirmed in 2018. They have already eclipsed the livestock deaths record attributed to wolves over the same four-month period in any year since they were reintroduced in the region in 1998...MORE