Via the Animal Welfare Institute:
Albemarle Peninsula, N.C.—Private landowners in the five counties of North Carolina where red wolves roam signed a petition, sent to U.S Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe, expressing their support for keeping endangered red wolves on their land.
The Service has identified local landowner support in the five-county area—Beaufort, Dare, Tyrrell, Hyde, and Washington counties—as a key component in its consideration of whether to continue the red wolf recovery program in North Carolina. In the past two years, the Service eliminated the recovery coordinator for the program, stopped reintroducing red wolves into the recovery area until it completes a review of the program, stopped sterilizing and removing coyotes (which hybridize with red wolves), and issued permits to landowners to kill individual red wolves. Read the full press release from the Animal Welfare Institute…
2 comments on “More than 80 North Carolina Landowners Express Support for Recovery of Endangered Red Wolves”
I here the Red Wolves are part coyote with a little bit of gray wolf left in them.
Red wolves are a distinct species. There is more information about the history of red wolves on the Wolf Conservation Center’s website: https://nywolf.org/red-wolves/red-wolf-history
And specific information on the history involving the scientific conclusion that red wolves are a unique species is available on the USFWS Red Wolf page: https://nctc.fws.gov/Pubs4/endangered_red_wolves.pdf