Only 14 red wolves survived the 1970s. Half a century later, this endangered species is slowly returning to the wild

There are places in eastern North Carolina where hearing a red wolf remains an unusual event. The species has spent decades ...

Red Wolves Reach a Major Milestone in North Carolina

North Carolina's red wolves have teetered on the edge of total extinction for decades, and 2026 brought a breeding season ...
Michigan Technological University

Michigan Tech Geneticist Partners with Citizen Scientists, Biotech Company and Public Partners to Save America's Red Wolves

Conservation geneticist Kristin Brzeski has engaged a broad network of grassroots support in her efforts to restore the red wolf population in the American South. Brzeski conducts her research in ...
Associated Press

A North Carolina wildlife crossing will save people. Can it save the last wild red wolves too?

ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. (AP) — Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last June ...