Two red wolves, Male 1414 and Female 1287, at SSP site Museum Life and Science in Durham, N.C., on Oct. 22, 2013. (B. Bartel/USFWS) ...

Red wolves mate for life, and these pairs usually mate once a year, in February. Pups are usually born in April or May and concealed in well-hidden dens. Diet ...

A red wolf crosses a road on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, Thursday, March 23, 2023, near Manns Harbor, N.C.

The only remaining wild red wolves live in a five-county region in northeastern North Carolina. They are threatened by poaching and, increasingly, by vehicle strikes.

Red wolves once occupied much of the Eastern U.S. but were driven to near extinction by trapping, hunting and habitat loss before they were reintroduced to North Carolina in 1987.

RALEIGH, N.C. — In response to a legal victory by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a new recovery plan for the red wolf, the world’s most endangered ...

A female red wolf is shown in it's habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C. (Gerry Broome/AP) Regarding Stephen Nash’s Nov. 22 Local Opinions essay “Bring red wolves to ...