It was a model for the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone,” she said in an interview with Spectrum News 1. “This was one of the most successful predator reintroductions in U.S. “This was a longstanding and highly successful practice the Fish and Wildlife Service has used every year for 27 years and then stopped,” said Sierra Weaver, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center. There could be up to another dozen red wolves in the area that are not being tracked by conservationists. Now there are seven known red wolves left in the wild, all in eastern North Carolina. People in the area were allowed to hunt the red wolves. Fish and Wildlife Service stopped releasing the endangered wolves around the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. The wild population grew to more than 100, and they were having pups on their own. Red wolves were essentially extinct in the wild until a federal program began releasing a couple of captive wolves each year in eastern North Carolina more than three decades ago.
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