National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP)

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As of September 2026: Co-leads Mexico's side of the recovery program

In the 1970s, federal agents captured the last wild Mexican gray wolves in northern Mexico, seven animals that became the founders of a captive breeding program. Fifty years later, two packs descended from those wolves were released into Durango's Sierra Madre Occidental, their first wild home in Mexico since the subspecies vanished there.

Updated Sep 25