Wild red wolf population could soon be wiped out

The only wild population of endangered red wolves is unsustainable and could be wiped out within a decade after dwindling to a few dozen, government officials said in a report Tuesday. This is what the United States does to their animals. #ExtinctionIsForever and thanks to Fish and Wildlife for failure to protect endangered and critically endangered species. Shameful we pay these agencies and corrupt politicians!

There have been more than 80 dying from gunshot wounds over an approximately 25-year period ending in 2013. There are hunters that get their rocks off by killing coyotes and then these morons claim “I thought I shot a coyote” Well they shouldn’t be hunting coyotes either!

Red wolves wre once common across the Southeast, the red wolf had been considered extinct in the wild as of 1980. Releases of captive-bred wolves started in 1987. Releasing new wolves from captivity has come to a halt. Gunshot mortality has shredded the red wolf population. Inbreeding is also a concern and common to small endangered populations. The high number of wolves killed by humans exacerbates problems of inbreeding, which lowers the wolves’ fitness by decreasing reproductive rates and increasing susceptibility to environmental change and disease. Hybridisation may happen when shrinking numbers allow coyotes to colonize territories of wolves killed by humans, and when a red wolf cannot locate a red wolf mate it will accept a coyote and produce hybrids. The other problem— over development in wild areas that belong to Red wolves. At last count, there were only about 40 wolves let in the wild.

For about three decades recovery was managed by biologists on the ground, in the recovery areas and they grew the program into a success and the Red wolf began to recover. In 2013, regional administrators for the USFWS stripped the program from the recovery biologists and caving to pressure from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commision and some landowners opposed the program. Adaptive management strategies were abandoned as well as poaching enforcement. Landowners were even allowed to shoot wolves and some Red wolves were being removed from private property. About 75 wolves were gone in about 2 years. They are now critically endangered

To make matters worse, USFWS wants to gut the wild recovery effort altogether. Shrinking the wild Red wolves territory by about 90%, confining one wolf pack to one very small recovery area and then sending all the other Red wolves off to zoos.  Biologists were very disturbed by this and called out USFWS to take them to court.

Protect the Wolves™ must also take them to court and has the tools no one else has and the attorneys to do so. We just need your help to be able to do this with your donations we can fight these crooked agencies and these wolf-killing states.

In this June 13, 2017 file photo, the parents of this 7-week old red wolf pup keep an eye on their offspring at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C. Federal wildlife officials say the only wild population of endangered red wolves is unsustainable and could be wiped out within years. The prediction comes in a five-year review of the status of the species released Tuesday, April 24, 2018, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The report says only about 40 wolves remain in the wild in North Carolina, down from a peak of about 120 a decade ago. Another 230 wolves live in captivity.

 https://www.denverpost.com/2018/04/24/red-wolf-extinction/