A litter of gray wolves was born, an endangered species in Edomex

This Wednesday June 7th, the government of the State of Mexico unveiled the birth of a litter of mexican gray wolves in it Hermenegildo Galeana Park Conservation Center, located in the municipality of Tenancingo.

The same government reported on its social networks that the mother gave birth to seven cubs last April, which are in good healththus highlighting an important achievement for the preservation of the species of the Mexican gray wolf.

“It represents an important achievement for the preservation of this species that is in danger of extinction,” he said. Santiago Nyssen Gómez, director of the State Commission for Natural Parks and Fauna (Cepanaf) before the important birth of the pups that occurs in the Binational Program for the Conservation of the Mexican Gray Wolf, between Mexico and the United States.

On the other hand, the public official said that the seven puppies are under monitoring and supervision of veterinariansthis through surveillance cameras and out of sight of visitors to the Hermenegildo Galeana Park.

“Thanks to the Conservation Program of the Mexican Gray Wolf from @CEPANAF, in April the birth of a litter of 7 specimens was registered in the Hermenegildo Galeana Park, in Tenancingo #Edoméx A very important achievement for the preservation of this endangered species,” the agency wrote.

Likewise, he explained that the birth of the seven puppies was given thanks to the fact that a male wolf from the United States arrived in Edomexlater it was taken to the Hermenegildo Galeana Park where it mated with the female and as a result litters were born.

This program, which began in 2016, has been successful in the conservation of the Mexican gray wolf, since since its inception six litter births have been registered. Two specimens have already been released into their natural habitats.

It should be noted that the Mexican gray wolf is one of the rarest and most endangered mammals on the continent. The US Fish and Wildlife Service poisoned and trapped nearly all of the Mexican wolves in the wild between 1915 and 1972, including in Mexico, from 1950, as part of a “foreign aid” program.

Eventhree of the last five surviving wolves, captured between 1977 and 1980, were bred in captivity along with the progeny of four mexican wolves previously captured. Thanks to a lawsuit filed by the Center and its allies, the captive-bred offspring of these seven wolves were finally reintroduced to the southwestern United States in 1998. In Mexico, reintroduction began in 2011.

At the end of 2019, there were only 163 wild Mexican gray wolves have been counted north of the border. Habitat limitations in Mexico and politicized management in the United States, along with human persecution in both countries, threaten both populations.

The Center has continuously worked to reintroduce Mexican wolves to the wild in the United States and to provide them with protection from government and private prosecution, beginning with the court case in 1990 that led to the wolf’s eventual reintroduction into the American Union. Since then, work has been done to defeat demands from the cattle industry that tried to force the government to trap or kill all the wild Mexican wolves in the US.

Based on a request and demand of the Center, in 2015 the US Fish and Wildlife Service designated the Mexican gray wolf an endangered subspeciesprotecting them under the US Endangered Species Act.