Environmentalists to sue over capture of Mexican gray wolves
Posted at: 12/26/2012 12:35 PM By: The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Environmentalists are filing another
lawsuit over the federal government's handling of endangered
Mexican gray wolves, this one seeking to stop a policy that
calls for the capture of any wolves that cross the border into
New Mexico and Arizona. The Center for Biological Diversity
Wednesday filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service over a recent decision that the group says
gives the agency authority to catch any wayward wolves and put
them into a captive-breeding program, return them to where they
came from or relocate them into a designated Mexican wolf
recovery area. The group says Mexico recently released nine
Mexican gray wolves near the U.S. border in the Sierra Madre,
and wolves from the northern Rocky Mountains could make their
way south at any time. (Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All
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