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 ...

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 ...

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Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last June, when red wolf breeding male No. 2444 was struck and killed on U.S. 64 near Manns Harbor, North Carolina. His death likely meant five ...

Motorists are literally driving the United States' only unique wolf species back toward the brink of extinction in the wild.

Meanwhile, red wolf populations have plummeted by 81% in the past decade ... of Transportation and North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has identified key locations along Highway 64 where ...

Ranger, who is 2.5 years old, comes from the National Zoo as part of their Species Survival Plan aimed at preserving this critically endangered species.

For decades, conservationists have pushed for changes to U.S. 64, a busy two-lane highway to the popular Outer Banks that runs straight through the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge – one of ...