"Birth Of Six Endangered Red Wolves Has Their Advocates Howling For Joy"

"As recently as 2021, red wolves were “a ghost of a species,” one environmentalist said. Then the Biden administration took notice."

"Six critically endangered red wolves were introduced into the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in coastal North Carolina.

But unlike other wolves, no one brought these new canines to the Outer Banks area as part of a federal program to recover a dying species. For the first time in four years, these red wolves were born there.

The discovery of the litter tightly huddled in an earthen den marks a significant turnaround for a red wolf rescue program that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service all but abandoned a few years ago."

Darryl Fears reports for the Washington Post April 22, 2022.