Entries by Chad Richardson

Rare Footage of the World’s Only Wild Red Wolves Captured in North Carolina

From Newsweek: A rare red wolf has been caught on a trail-cam in North Carolina’s Alligator River Wildlife Refuge. The wolf is one of the world’s most endangered carnivores, and fewer than 17 adults are thought to exist in the wild today. “People have killed them for generations,” Will Harlan, Southeast director for the Center […]

Two gray wolves captured and collared in Northern California

From the Los Angeles Times: Two members of California’s small but rebounding gray wolf population have been located and given tracking collars, bolstering the state’s conservation efforts, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday. The agency says they located and captured the two wolves on March 17 in Siskiyou County through “intermittent signals” […]

USFWS delays publication of final revised red wolf recovery plan

From The Coastland Times: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced it is delaying the publication of the final revised red wolf recovery plan to ensure it has adequate time to use the results of a forthcoming population viability analysis (PVA) for informing the final revised recovery plan for the red wolf. The original, […]

Wolves back in Belgium after 100 years, sparking controversy

From the BBC: The researcher from the Flemish Institute for Nature and Forest Research (INBO) walks us along a countryside track in Belgium’s eastern province of Limburg. It’s not long before he spots a wolf print that most of us would never notice. The front paw track, lightly pressed into the mud, is probably just […]

Another Wild Wolf Killed in New York, Radio-Isotope Test Confirms

From the Center for Biological Diversity: ALBANY, N.Y.— Conservation groups announced today that testing by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Museum revealed that a wolf killed in upstate New York in 2021 was eating a wild diet and was a wild wolf. Click here for the full story.