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 finding is a key conservation victory—as those seeking to strip Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections from red wolves have long argued that the animal is a coyote subspecies or a gray ...

RALEIGH, N.C.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to classify the world’s last wild population of red wolves as ...

Like other wolves, these animals were hunted and persecuted ... which concludes that red wolves are a legitimate wolf species (Canis rufus) separate from grey wolves and coyotes.