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Episode #121 Emily Renn and Erin Hunt - Mexican Gray Wolf Reintroduction Anniversary

The Wolf Connection

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The 25th Anniversary of the Mexican Wolf Reintroduction

The Mexican wolf population has now crossed 200 wolves for the first time ever in the wild since the reintroduction program began. There were no wolves known left in the wild in Arizona, to New Mexico or Mexico by the 1970s. So then the captive breeding program started with just seven individual founders where all the wolves today are descended from just those seven individuals.

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