Many of my fellow bloggers and Mexican Wolf Activists did a conference call last week to discuss how to improve the chances of Mexican Wolves sustainability in the Southwest

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From: Jean Ossorio <lobadelsur@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:40 PM
Subject: Free these captive lobos!
To: Nicole Lampe <nicole@resource-media.org>
Cc: Harlin Savage <Harlin@resource-media.org>, Maggie <Maggie@nywolf.org>, Rick Meril <rick.meril@gmail.com>, Dave Hornoff <wolf101@ymail.com>, michael heath <boston333200@yahoo.com>, David Parsons <ellobodave@comcast.net>

Friends of wild wolves:

 

It was great talking with you on the call last week. Dave Parsons and I made a few corrections and clarifications to the call notes. The revised version is attached to this e-mail.

 

Last week we began a nine-week campaign to encourage the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-release into the wild all of the nine wolves recaptured as young pups when their packs were removed for depredations between 2005 and 2007 that are still in captivity today and that are physically, genetically, and temperamentally suitable for release. These wolves are all eligible for re-release in New Mexico, where the majority the recovery area is located.

 

Every week for nine weeks we'll feature an individual re-release candidate on the website "Lobos of the Southwest" (www.mexicanwolves.org). Then we'll link to the story from the Mexican Gray Wolves Facebook page. We're asking our friends to copy and paste a very short "e-postcard" into their own e-mail, add a line or two of personalization, add their name and address, and send the messages to FWS Regional Director Benjamin Tuggle. We're asking people to do this for each of the nine candidates--one per week. Already a number of individuals and organizations have linked these weekly alerts to their personal or organizational Facebook pages. We're hoping to keep up a steady stream of brief messages to Director Tuggle that will focus his mind and the minds of officials of the Mexican gray wolf reintroduction program on the fact that the public recognizes the importance of getting more lobos into the wild.

 

These nine wolves are all wild-born. If it hadn't been for the draconian removal policies followed by the program under the now-discredited SOP 13.0, most of them would still be in the wild today. Some would probably have offspring of their own by now, thus making it more likely that the population would be considerably larger than it was at the end of 2009.

 

Here are the links to the first two re-release candidate alerts on the website.

 

http://www.mexicanwolves.org/index.php/news/222/51/Free-These-Wild-born-Wolves

 

http://www.mexicanwolves.org/index.php/news/227/51/Free-These-Wild-born-Wolves

 

Please note that if you decide to use some of this information on your blog and would like to use the accompanying photos, I can send you a higher resolution JPG file with proper credit information. Just let me know.

 

Thanks!

 

Que vivan los lobos!

Jean ^..^

 

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