Show Endangered Red Wolves You’re on Their Team

We are about to lose a species. The number of red wolves in the wild has dwindled to fewer than 20 as red wolf recovery and reintroduction efforts have all but been abandoned over the past several years. Red wolves are the most endangered wolf on earth. The red wolf is a smaller, more slender cousin of the gray wolf with a reddish color that once thrived throughout the southeastern U.S.

Lethal population-control measures all but wiped out the species by the 1970s, and today, North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is home to the only wild population of red wolves on earth.

Please urge Secretary Haaland to commit to recovering a self-sustaining and expanding population of red wolves in the wild.

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Interior Secretary

Deb

Haaland

Department of Interior

Dear Secretary Haaland,

Thank you for stepping up to lead the Department of Interior, including the important work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to save endangered species.

I am writing you because the world is on the verge of losing another species of wildlife from the wild, the red wolf. Once abundant throughout the southeastern U.S., we have driven them into one corner of North Carolina where only a few remain.

Recovering red wolves may be one of your most difficult wildlife conservation challenges, but also one of the most important, and rewarding if successful. As recently as a decade ago, the Fish and Wildlife Service had successfully increased the population in the wild to 130 through innovative, effective strategies before it backed away from red wolf recovery. With fresh leadership, a renewed commitment, robust funding, and more partners and supporters, we believe the Fish and Wildlife Service can not only repeat but exceed its past successes, and eventually restore red wolves beyond northeast North Carolina.

This will require:
•	Strong leadership from you, and from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaders in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta
•	Greater efforts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to resolve threats to red wolves as well as the concerns of private landowners
•	As threats and concerns are addressed, more, and more consistent, releases of red wolves into the wild, from a robust captive breeding program

Please take whatever actions are necessary and within your power to save this species from extinction in the wild!

Sincerely,
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