mexican wolf

The saga of the Mexican Grey Wolf is about how politics interfere in the efforts of independent scientists to recover an endangered species. With my guest David Parsons, who formerly led the USFWS efforts to reintroduce the Mexican Grey Wolf to the American Southwest in 1990-to 99, we learn how difficult it is to reintroduce a species and save it from extinction when powerful vested interests who control legislators hijack the policy process down to even the scientific modeling results for how many wolves are needed to recover the species. The problem for these wolves is that all of the critical states for reintroduction reject accepting the number of wolves necessary for true recovery. But this lack of political tolerance for wolves in our government is not reflective of the general public and is a result of a subset of society that controls our decision-makers. As David explains, we have a huge political fight ahead to save this iconic animal that once roamed by the thousands.

The saga of the Mexican Grey Wolf is a story of how politics interferes in the efforts of independent scientists to recover an endangered species. With my guest David Parsons, who formerly led the USFWS efforts to reintroduce the Mexican Grey Wolf to the American Southwest from 1990-99, we learn how difficult it is to reintroduce a species and save it from extinction when powerful vested interests who control legislators hijack the policy process down to even the scientific modeling results for how many wolves are needed to recover the species. The problem for these wolves is that all of the critical states for reintroduction reject accepting the number of wolves necessary for true recovery. This lack of political tolerance for wolves is not reflective of the general public but the result of a subset of society that controls our decision makers. With all efforts to protect wolves, we all wolves face enormous political fights ahead. Wolves are on the Colorado 2020 ballot.

The saga of the Mexican Grey Wolf is a story of how politics interferes in the efforts of independent scientists to recover an endangered species. With my guest David Parsons, who formerly led the USFWS efforts to reintroduce the Mexican Grey Wolf to the American Southwest from 1990-99, we learn how difficult it is to reintroduce a species and save it from extinction when powerful vested interests who control legislators hijack the policy process down to even the scientific modeling results for how many wolves are needed to recover the species. The problem for these wolves is that all of the critical states for reintroduction reject accepting the number of wolves necessary for true recovery. But this lack of political tolerance for wolves in our government is not reflective of the general public and a result of a subset of society that controls our decision makers. As David explains, we have a huge political fight ahead to save this iconic animal that once roamed by the thousands.

A huge great white gorges on a dead whale, rare Amur leopard cubs spotted, the first Mexican wolf born through artificial insemination and whales help us learn about changing oceans. All that and more in your weekly blast of nature news!

BISON BABY
MEXICAN WOLF INSEMINATION
RHINO TINDER
DOLPHIN DEED
WHALE VS. WHALE
WHITE SHARK FEAST
RARE AMUR CUBS
WHALE’S EYE VIEW
CARCASS CLASH

A huge great white gorges on a dead whale, rare Amur leopard cubs spotted, the first Mexican wolf born through artificial insemination and whales help us learn about changing oceans. All that and more in your weekly blast of nature news!

BISON BABY
MEXICAN WOLF INSEMINATION
RHINO TINDER
DOLPHIN DEED
WHALE VS. WHALE
WHITE SHARK FEAST
RARE AMUR CUBS
WHALE’S EYE VIEW
CARCASS CLASH