BY KRIS VAN CLEAVE
UPDATED ON: JULY 20, 2023 / 9:00 PM/ CBS NEWS
Reserve, New Mexico— The race to save an endangered species took five newborn Mexican wolf pups on a nearly 2,500-mile journey from captivity in New York to the wild in New Mexico.
“Time is trauma, and the very best place for a wolf pup to be is with a mother,” U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service veterinarian Susan Dicks told CBS News.
Mexican wolves, or lobos, were once plentiful in the Southwest. But they were hunted nearly to extinction. By the mid-1970s, there were just seven in existence, according to USFWS.
“They are doing better and improving,” Dicks said. “But that’s a fine line. Disease comes through, something happens, they could be lost.”
There are now about 250 back in the wild, USFWS says, but a lack of genetic diversity makes rehoming pups from captivity…
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Exposing the Big Game 
It has been a struggle to grow the Mexican Wolf population because of the lawless mentality of SSS (Shoot, Shovel, and Shutup), and the failure of USFWS to give them more room for recovery. Nevertheless, recovery is recovering, albeit slowly.