Red Wolf Preservation

Durham’s Museum of Life and Science has a new red wolf to aid recovery efforts for the endangered species.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also released an updated red wolf recovery plan Friday calling for $328 million in spending over the next 50 years to get the red wolf off the endangered species list.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is poised to release a new recovery plan for the species. Its success will rely heavily on cooperation from private landowners.

Eastern North Carolina is the only place in the world endangered red wolves roam wild. On Wednesday, the U.S. government agreed to settle a lawsuit with conservation groups and commit to releasing more red wolves in the state.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking for the public's help in finding out who shot the wolf and has offered a $5,000 reward for information that leads to a successful prosecution.

The pups will remain behind the scenes as a part of the zoo's red wolf breeding program.

The pups were born to a wolf pair in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge.

Federal wildlife officials overseeing the world’s only wild population of endangered red wolves announced they are abandoning a 2018 plan to limit the animals’ territory and loosen protections for wolves that strayed from that area in eastern North Carolina.

The newest pups bring the total number of red wolves currently in the North Carolina Zoo’s breeding program to 36. Officials say that makes the pack at the North Carolina Zoo the second-largest in the U.S. after another zoo in Washington state.

A judge has ordered the federal government to come up with a plan to release more endangered red wolves from breeding programs to bolster the dwindling…