Red wolf pups have arrived on public and private lands this year. See how new litters are shaping the species' future.

North Carolina is home to the only wild population of red wolves in the world.

“Following the mandate of the Endangered Species Act, the federal government has gone to great lengths to reintroduce the red wolf into the wild and provide for its recovery,” said Tara Zuardo, ...

The births are a boon to efforts to revive the species, which was once nearly hunted to extinction.

From 1987 through 2014, the USFWS released 134 red wolves into the recovery area. However, after temporarily halting releases from captivity in 2015, the USFWS adopted the position around 2018 that ...

Four litters of red wolf pups have been born in the wild in North Carolina this year, with 12 to 16 pups having survived ...

A major conservation success has arrived in Illinois, as Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington announced it welcomed four red wolf pups on May 12. While the birth of any animal is exciting, this litter ...

One critically endangered species that calls North Carolina home now has five more members. Three male and two female red wolf pups were born this month at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham.

Red wolves are among the most endangered carnivores in the world. Once spread across the U.S. Southeast, these clever and highly adaptive predators suffered a similar fate to that of their gray wolf ...

With only a few hundred red wolves left, Smithsonian scientist Jennifer Nagashima is pioneering new ways to preserve their ...