Photo: Gary Kramer, USFWS
In El Sol de Hermosillo, a newspaper from Sonora, Mexico, Mexico Program Director Juan Carlos Bravo celebrates Sonora Congress’s exhortation to Mexico’s federal transportation committee to build wildlife crossings. Photo: El Sol de Hermosillo
Juan Carlos Bravo, director of our Mexico Program, spoke with Proyecto Puente, a Spanish-language outlet in Sonora, Mexico, about the killing of a female black bear on Mexico’s Highway 2. Photo: William C. Gladish
Watch Uniradio Noticias’s interview with Juan Carlos Bravo, director of our Mexico Program, about the killing of a female black bear in a wildlife-vehicle collision on Mexico’s Highway 2. Photo: William C. Gladish
Watch Televisa Sonora’s interview with Juan Carlos Bravo, director of our Mexico Program, about the killing of a female black bear on Mexico’s Highway 2. The bear was struck by a vehicle, which shows the need for wildlife crossings on the highway to protect both human non-human travelers alike. Photo: SoyCobre
Discussing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent decision to largely abandon red wolf recovery efforts, Ron Sutherland advocated for reinvesting in North Carolina’s wild red wolves in the Carolina Public Press. Photo: Ron Sutherland
National Parks Traveler explores how our ambitious vision for a reconnected, restored and rewilded Eastern Wildway builds upon large protected areas like national parks to create wildlife corridors for the benefit of both wildlife and people. Photo: Tracey Butcher
Writing for Blue Ridge Outdoors, reporter Dan Dewitt chronicles the devastating saga of the wild red wolves, who now face extinction at the hands of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent red wolf recovery plan. With quotes and camera trap photos of red wolves from Ron Sutherland, the article explains how the agency’s lack of protections deals a death sentence for the endangered animals. Photo: Ron Sutherland
The Washington Post picked up this Associated Press article about North Carolina governor Roy Cooper’s comments urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reinvest in red wolf conservation efforts. Recently, the USFWS released a plan that, if enacted, would undoubtedly cause the extinction of this endangered animal. Photo: Wildlands Network
In an article in the Charlotte Observer, Ron Sutherland discusses red wolves losing protections under the Endangered Species Act following a study of their genetic identity. Dr. Ron Sutherland, quoted in the article, has disproven the myth that red wolves are not genetically unique. Photo: John Froschauer
North Carolina TV station WECT interviewed Dr. Ron Sutherland about the recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife decision to allow the killing of critically endangered red wolves who wander off Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and onto private property. Photo: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS
A Raleigh, North Carolina TV station interviewed Dr. Ron Sutherland about the recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife decision to allow red wolves who wander onto private property to be shot, effectively allowing the extermination of the wild red wolf population. Photo: NC Hunting and Fishing Forum
The Albuquerque Journal interviewed Mexico Program Director Juan Carlos Bravo and Borderlands Coordinator Myles Traphagen about the border wall’s disastrous effects on wildlife. Photo: Northern Jaguar Project/Naturalia
New Mexico’s KRWG TV shared our press release about our newly designed maps that demonstrate the importance of maintaining landscape connectivity between Northern Arizona and the Gila National Forest for Mexican wolf recovery. Photo: Eric Kilby
Smoky Mountain News published a piece on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) 5-year review of the red wolf’s endangered status. They included a quote from our press release detailing our disappointment with the agency’s seeming abandonment of the Red Wolf Recovery Program. Photo: Becky Bartell, USFWS
Inside Ecology, a science-focused outlet in the UK, republished this exclusive Wildlands Network interview with animal behaviorist Dr. Marc Bekoff. Wildlands Network’s former communications consultant, Paula MacKay, and Dr. Marc Bekoff discuss the ethics of rewilding and the importance of incorporating compassionate conservation. Photo: Tom Gordon