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Red wolves face tough odds

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RALEIGH – A revised population estimate puts the world’s only wild population of endangered red wolves at their lowest level since the late 1990s amid recent moves to protect the bigger, predatory relatives of dogs from hunters’ misdirected bullets. Once common in the Southeast, the red wolf had been considered extinct in the wild as of 1980 for reasons including …

Groups Petition for Emergency Action to Save Southeast Alaska Wolves

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  Environmental groups on Thursday asked three state and federal agencies to take decisive action to save what they say are the rapidly dwindling population of Alexander Archipelago wolves in the Prince of Wales Island area in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Photo courtesy ADF&G The six organizations that submitted the letters to agencies are Cascadia Wildlands, the Center for Biological …