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The Mexican Gray Wolf needs your help – tell Congress to investigate violence against the wolves.

Fewer than 10 years ago, the federal government reintroduced Mexican Gray Wolves into Arizona and New Mexico: progeny of the few wolves that survived the government's six-decade extermination program and that were trapped for captive breeding.  The reintroduction was meant to recover and restore to the wild Mexican Wolves after their near extinction from an extermination campaign that included poisoning, trapping, shooting, and den-excavating.

But now the government is again killing Mexican Wolves: locating them by radio collars and shooting them from the air, digging up wolf pups that then don't survive captivity, trapping wolves and splitting up family packs. 

Why is the government doing this?  Because the livestock industry successfully pushed for rules and protocols that require such aggressive predator control of wolves in the Southwest, far beyond government violence carried out against wolves or other endangered animals elsewhere. 

Five years ago, the non-governmental panel of scientists who wrote the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's official Three-Year Review of the reintroduction program urged changing those rules.  The government has not done so, and instead has trapped and shot so many wolves that the projected growth of the population to more than 100 animals at the end of 2006 has not been achieved. 

Even worse, the limited gene pool of the Mexican Wolf - stemming from just seven animals who survived extermination - is being squandered and lost as a result of excessive removal of wolves from the wild.

Last month the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Fish and Wildlife Service to save the Mexican Wolf.  The lobo also needs your direct help.  Please request congressional hearings into this mismanaged program in order to apply added pressure on the Bush administration to stop the war against the Mexican Gray Wolf.