Known as “America’s wolf,” red wolves are the only species of wolf that lives in the United States—and nowhere else.

A 2018 study found red wolf genes in wild canines on a Texas island, decades after the species was declared extinct in the ...

A family of seven endangered red wolves was flown from North Carolina to Westchester County as part of a breeding and ...

For decades, zoos and wildlife facilities have worked to bring the red wolf back from the brink of extinction. Today, nearly all remaining red wolves live in human care, making careful management of ...

Chapel Hill, NC—Following a successful legal battle, conservation groups hope the recent release of nine highly endangered red wolves into the wild is the first of many steps by the US Fish and ...

Chapel Hill, NC—Conservation groups and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced a historic settlement today to recommit to the conservation and recovery of the world’s only wild red wolf ...

Learn more about the ghost wolves of Galveston, coyotes that harbor red wolf DNA. Red wolves were declared extinct in the wild in 1980, according to a study in Science Advances, but the people of ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Conservationists urged a federal judge to reclassify red wolves as 'essential.' Red wolf population declined from 120 in 2012 to 18 ...

A group of 10 critically endangered American red wolves made the journey from New York to North Carolina or vice versa on ...

A red wolf feeds on a frozen deer carcass placed in their habitat as enrichment on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2026, at the Endangered Wolf Center on the grounds of Washington University’s Tyson Research Center ...

Ten endangered red wolves were transported between North Carolina and New York Tuesday as part of a coordinated effort to preserve the critically endangered species. Pilots to the Rescue — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A national conservation group asked a federal judge Wednesday for stronger protections to keep the red wolf population in Eastern ...