Red Wolves

The red wolf is one of the most endangered animals on the planet. That's why environmentalists were ecstatic to find the first litter born in the wild in four years — six pups.

Joe Madison, hands in his pockets, eyes the fresh tracks in the sand with keen interest. “They may have been here since this morning,” he says.The intern…

RALEIGH — The fight over the critically endangered red wolf has returned to court as North Carolina's governor sought immediate help for the dozen or so…

North Carolina’s dwindling population of wild red wolves continues to face the looming threat of extinction. But conservation groups say, they’re not…

A pair of endangered red wolves have been relocated to the Western North Carolina Nature Center in Asheville as part of the Species Survival Plan.Karma, a…

Federal officials plan to reduce the territory of the world's only wild population of red wolves to parts of a single North Carolina county under a…

Federal wildlife officials plan to announce this month a decision on the future of the nearly 30-year old Red Wolf Recovery Program in eastern North…

As 2015 comes to a close, uncertainty remains about the fate of a federal program in North Carolina aimed at protecting the Red Wolf from extinction. The…

Federal wildlife officials say they’ll take more time to study the feasibility of maintaining a Red Wolf recovery program in eastern North Carolina. The…