Nevertheless, the red wolf remains in dire need of the protections guaranteed to listed species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Recent detrimental actions by the US Fish and Wildlife Service ...

and the abandonment of the Red Wolf Recovery Program by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Designated as an endangered species in 1967, the red wolf was declared extinct in the wild in 1980. In ...

In 1987, the USFWS gave the red wolf a second chance at survival in the wild, releasing several captive bred wolves into North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge as part of a ...

Red wolves are among the most endangered carnivores in the world. Once spread across the U.S. Southeast, these clever and highly adaptive predators suffered a similar fate to that of their gray wolf ...

In a tiny pocket of North Carolina can be found the red wolf (Canis rufus), and it’s one of the most endangered wolf species ...