Nine Mexican gray wolves are officially calling the bosque in Albuquerque home for the new year.
As City Desk reported earlier this year, the city built a 4.5 acre facility in the bosque near the ABQ BioPark to provide homes for new wolf pups. “Through fostering, young wolf pups born in professional care facilities are transferred within a few days of birth into a wild wolf den with pups of the same age so the wild mother raises them as her own. This helps bolster the wild population,” explained Lynn Tupa, Associate Director at the ABQ BioPark, in a city preview of the facility last month.
While this conservation hub is closed to the public to maintain the wolves’ wild nature, visitors can still see a separate family of wolves at the BioPark zoo. Officials say this milestone turns years of vision into a functioning recovery effort for one of North America’s most endangered mammals.
The $4 million project site was funded by the city’s 1/8th cent gross receipts tax for BioPark improvements.
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