{"id":155006,"date":"2020-10-22T20:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/?p=155006"},"modified":"2020-10-22T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:32:18","slug":"red-wolf-recovery-milestone-33-years-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/red-wolf-recovery-milestone-33-years-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wolf Recovery Milestone \u2013 33 Years Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red Wolf Lava (F2134)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thirty-three years ago, a new chapter in wildlife conservation began with a wild homecoming unlike anything seen before. The first captive-bred red wolves were released to the wild!<\/p>\n

In 1980, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) declared red wolves extinct in the wild. A few survived only in captivity, their wildness caged.<\/p>\n

On September 14, 1987, USFWS took a giant leap forward in endangered species conservation by releasing red wolves in North Carolina\u2019s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge as part of a federal reintroduction program under the Endangered Species Act.<\/p>\n

Over the last three decades, efforts continued to restore these keystone predators to their rightful places in our landscapes, in our hearts, and in our culture.<\/p>\n

As a participant in the Red Wolf Species Survival Plan, the\u00a0Wolf Conservation Center<\/a>\u00a0has been a part of this effort for the past 16 years in giving the rare species a second chance by preventing extinction through captive breeding and supporting the reintroduction project by caring for the wolves for reintroduction.<\/p>\n

The red wolf reintroduction was among the first instances of a species, considered extinct in the wild, being re-established from a captive population. In many ways, the red wolf program was the pilot program, serving as a model for subsequent canid reintroductions, particularly those of the Mexican gray wolf to the American Southwest and the gray wolf to the Yellowstone region.<\/p>\n

In recognition of the anniversary, the Wolf Conservation Center invites you to celebrate Red Wolf Week!<\/p>\n

Help us raise awareness for endangered red wolves; their importance and plight, and the efforts to recover a species on the brink of extinction. All week long the WCC will share interesting red wolf facts, ways to take action, host special events, giveaways and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Red Wolf Lava (F2134) Thirty-three years ago, a new chapter in wildlife conservation began with a wild homecoming unlike anything seen before. The first captive-bred red wolves were released to the wild! In 1980, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) declared red wolves extinct in the wild. A few survived only in captivity, their wildness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,14],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-155006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-news","category-wolf","category-wolfdoguk","tag-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165538,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155006\/revisions\/165538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfdog.co.uk\/den\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}