A little more than 200 red wolves live in captivity, but fewer than 20 exist in the wild — all in a rural five-county section of northeastern North Carolina. But their numbers continue to fall ...

Map by Jose Barrios, USFWS. From 2002 to 2014, the wild red wolf population consistently numbered over 100 animals. But starting in 2012, the population began to decline due to actions taken by the ...

This took place not in the remote backcountry of the Rocky Mountains, but in the flat and swampy terrain of eastern North Carolina, where the Service decided to release red wolves into the Alligator ...

“Muppet’s tragic death brings North Carolina’s beleaguered red wolves one step closer to extinction,” said Will Harlen, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The world’s most ...

RALEIGH, N.C.— Five endangered red wolf pups have died after their father was killed by a vehicle in their last remaining refuge in eastern North Carolina, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed ...

The center also contributed one of the first Red Wolves to be reintroduced into the wild in North Carolina. Some of the Gulf Coast canids are expected to come to the EWC in around three years ...

The U.S Fish & Wildlife Service website states says red wolves are still alive, with some roaming eastern North Carolina, and others in captive breeding facilities throughout the United States.

The population peaked in North Carolina in 2006 at around 130, but has since declined to between 25 and 35 individuals. Red wolves grow up to 26 inches tall, and adults measure about four feet in ...