Endangered Red Wolves
The Red Wolf on the left is one of a protected breeding pair in the Western North Carolina Nature Center. The wolf on the right sticking his head above dried soy beans, runs free. He is one of approximately 20 Red Wolves remaining in the wild. Once these wolves roamed freely throughout the southeastern United States as one of the apex predators. Today, they are the most endangered wolf species in the world. My photographic guide Jennifer Hadley Photography, pointed the wild animal out to me as we rode through fields in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina. Although I only had a distant glimpse, I was honored and saddened to be one of the few people who ever get to see a Red Wolf in the wild. Today, dedicated preservationists in the USFWS as well as volunteer organizations are working tirelessly to reintroduce Red Wolfpacks to the wild.
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