A breeding pair of the highly endangered wolves are settling in to their new homes at the Tacoma Zoo.

For the first time, biologists were able to capture a member of Oregon’s Wehana pack. They caught a young male wolf from the pack and fitted him with a radio tracking collar before releasing him.

NewScientist Magazine published an interesting article looking at the findings of Gordon Haber, outspoken wolf advocate and independent biologist, who died in a tragic accident last October.

The following is a summary of Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project activities in Arizona on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests (ASNF) and Fort Apache Indian Reservation (FAIR) and in New Mexico on the Apache National Forest (ANF) and Gila National Forest (GNF).

A report released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now believes that the current reintroduction program for Mexican gray wolves risking failure and concludes that the program now needs to pursue full recovery.

Paul Day of CBS 4 in Denver, CO, wrote a story talking about the investigation scientists are undertaking to confirm the presence of wolves on the High Lonesome Ranch in Western Colorado.

Six red wolf pups were born in captivity in the middle of April and two of those wolf pups were picked to head out to North Carolina to become foster pups of a wild wolf mom.

Brett French, writing for the Billings Gazette reports a survival analysis report for Idaho, Wyoming and Montana shows that while mortality rates are at 25 percent with most of that being caused by humans, wolves are overall doing well.

Dr. Reese Halter, conservation biologist at Cal Lutheran University, public speaker and founder of the international conservation institute Global Forest Science, wrote a thoughtful and informative article regarding wolves.

Each month the Arizona Fish and Game Department releases a report for the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program. Here’s the report for April 1-30, 2010.