"It is about time." Endangered red wolves get critical lifeline against shocking threat: 'The only effective way at reducing ...

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 ...

ALBERMARLE, N.C.— For the first time in four years, a litter of pups has been born into eastern North Carolina’s struggling population of wild red wolves. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Red Wolf ...

The North Carolina Department of Transportation submitted the grant application in partnership with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ...

red wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said in the release. The reserve, which is not open to the public, is home to 17 red wolves, according to the zoo. The four ...

A new furry friend has joined the vast assortment of animals at Miller Park Zoo in an effort to help with conservation of a ...

In September, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially reported ... “Brutal” was how Joe Madison, the federal agency’s red wolf recovery program manager in North Carolina, described ...

“With only nine wolves known to remain in the wild, the red wolf desperately needed this good news ... That good news is a settlement agreement between the environmental group and the U.S. Fish and ...

International Wolf Center, there are two “widely recognized species of wolves in the world, the red and the gray.” Pictured is the American grey wolf (Canis lupus lycaon). ©Jearu/Shutterstock.com ...

The $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation will fund wildlife crossings to protect Eastern NC’s red wolves.

The red wolves used to dominate North America before European settlers came in, and when the rehabilitation program started back in the 1980s, the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge had more ...

which concludes that red wolves are a legitimate wolf species (Canis rufus) separate from grey wolves and coyotes. In June 2018, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed allowing North Carolina ...