Could poachers jeopardize red wolf reintroduction?
An active minority of poachers could be driving red wolves back toward extirpation even though most North Carolinians support the conservation and reintroduction ...
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USFWS and partners recover wandering red wolf
A red wolf swam away from an island wildlife refuge in Florida in April and turned up several miles away on the mainland three days later. The four-year-old male ...
Federal court orders release of captive red wolves into the wild
A federal district court has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to resume releasing captive red wolves from a captive breeding population into the wild. In ...
Hybrids — and maybe a full red wolf — found in former range
Red wolves (Canis rufus) were thought to be extinct in the wild, outside of a reintroduced population in North Carolina. But a pair of recent studies have found ...
Court says USFWS violated law in red wolf management
A federal district court has ruled the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated both the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act in its ...
JWM: Red wolf reintroduction on path toward extinction
Current efforts to recover the red wolf (Canis rufus) in North Carolina are bound for failure, a team of researchers concluded, unless releases of captive wolves ...
JWM study: Gunshot mortalities threaten NC red wolves
Due to habitat conversion and predator eradication, North Carolina’s red wolves (Canis rufus) have for decades remained some of the world’s most endangered ...
Court orders injunction on harming, killing red wolves
On Sept. 28, a federal judge ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop authorizing the harassment or killing of endangered red wolves (Canis rufus) without ...
Supposed wolf species may actually be hybrids
American canids are all mixed up, genetically speaking. That’s the conclusion of a new study examining wolf and coyote DNA, and the findings could change ...