PHOENIX — During a routine update on the Game and Fish Department’s nongame program activities, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission – during its regularly scheduled monthly public meeting – voted unanimously to amend its policy on the release of Mexican wolves in eastern Arizona.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department released their monthly endangered species report for December.

KRQE-TV and the Carlsbad Current-Argus are reporting that the Living Desert Zoo has flown a Mexican gray wolf to Mexico in hopes of successfully breeding pups to help the embattled reintroduction program.

The Center for Biological Diversity released the following press release regarding the continued delays in in releasing 8 more wolves in to Arizona’s wilderness.

The Arizona Fish and Game Departmant has released its August 2010 Mexican Wolf report.

TUCSON, Ariz. – The Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program along the Arizona-New Mexico border is moving into a new phase, with a program compensating ranchers for wolf-caused livestock losses being taken over by the federal government.

The Arizona Fish and Game Departmant has released its July 2010 Mexican Wolf report.

SILVER CITY, N.M.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today determined that the Mexican gray wolf may qualify for listing as an endangered species separate from other wolves. A separate listing for Mexican wolves would require replacement of the subspecies’ outdated 1982 recovery plan.

The critically endangered mexican gray wolves are facing a persistent and seemingly coordinated assault by poachers. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed that a third Mexican gray wolf has been killed.