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 ...
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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 ...