Tag: New Mexico

The name of her cabin inspired biologist Jennifer Frey to do a bit of ecological sleuthing. Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Gila National Forest of New Mexico...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released a court-ordered draft revision to its 2017 Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, providing measures aimed at reducing human-caused mortality like poaching and vehicle...

By the 1980s, more than 80% of populations of Chiricahua leopard frogs in Arizona and New Mexico had disappeared. The amphibians faced habitat loss, predation by invasive fish like bass...

Ted Turner’s Ladder Ranch in New Mexico will host a translocated pack of Mexican gray wolves. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with the ranch as it searches...

Bureau of Land Management biologists have detected the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome on hibernating bats and cave walls in two eastern New Mexico caves. The detections are the first...

In 1964, a federal control agent with the U.S. government shot and killed the last known jaguar north of Interstate 10 in Arizona. While some people have spotted the animals...

Large tracts of high-quality habitat for Mexican wolves can be found across northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S., according to cross-border distribution modeling revealing suitable areas for the animals. Mexican...

More diverse communities of bees in Michigan, including both native and nonnative pollinators, result in less virus spread. Researchers had already known about a previous hypothesis called the Dilution Effect,...

The population of Mexican wolves has increased in the wild once again, reaching 186 individuals in the U.S. Southwest in 2020. Mexican wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) were nearly extirpated from...

Mexico is receiving a pack of endangered Mexican wolves to boost the country’s efforts to conserve the species. The ABQ BioPark in Albuquerque loaded a pair of Mexican gray wolves...