Objectives:

1- To contribute to the re-establishment of wild population of Mexican gray wolf in the United States and Mexico.

2- To establish a semi-captive couple of Mexican gray wolf in La Mesa Reserve, Marín, Nuevo León.

3- To evaluate the reproduction of the Mexican gray wolf at La Mesa, Marín, Nuevo León.

4- To study the behavior of the Mexican gray wolf under semi-captive conditions.

5- To develop environmental education programs focused into the preservation of re-introduced wolves to their natural ranges.

This program will collaborate with other similar efforts throughout Mexico and the United States for the reproduction and maintenance of the species under semi-captive conditions. By doing so, it is expected that the total number of individuals raised under controlled conditions, with a minimal of human contact and natural behavioral patterns, will gradually increase.

The International Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program contemplates the re-introduction of wolves into the Sierra Madre Oriental and Sierra Madre Occidental. The area on which this project is being developed is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental province; the animals raised there will grown in a very similar environment to the one were they will be released, thus producing a minimal of stress.