I recently heard from El Anden, the publisher for the Spanish language edition of The Wolf Chronicles (Book One is entitled “El Pacto de los Lobos”) that they are organizing a campaign around the series to help save the Iberian wolf, an endangered subspecies of the gray wolf. Like many populations of wolves, the Iberian wolf was seen for many years as a pest, and bounties were offered for its extermination. I’m still reading up on the Iberian wolf, but I’m really excited about this opportunity. Once I find out more, I’ll be posting information on how people can help this effort.

Meanwhile, back in the US, the Rocky Mountain gray wolf population is still at risk. At least 39 of the Northern Rockies' 1,500 gray wolves have been killed since they lost federal protection on March 28th. Common sense wildlife management has gone out the window as the anti-wolf forces are doing everything they can to reverse the progress wolves have made in the last thirteen years.

A coalition of nonprofit organizations has filed a lawsuit to return the wolves to the endangered species list and to stop the states of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming from killing off huge numbers of the wolves in those states. The Montana government tried to delay the lawsuit so that they could get started killin’ more wolves, but a federal judge put the kibosh on that saying that he was unwilling to risk more deaths.

As goes the wolf, so goes the world. I’ll be keeping close watch on these conservation efforts and posting what I know.