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Evaluating how management policies affect red wolf mortality and disappearance
April 2, 2024
Poaching is the major cause of death for large carnivores in several regions, contributing to their global endangerment. The traditional hypothesis used in wildlife management (killing for tolerance) suggests reducing protections for a species will decrease poaching. However, recent studies … read more
Posted in Regional Wolves, Southeast-Red Wolves | Tagged Canis rufus, endangered species, large carnivore, poaching, policy signal, survival analysis

Space Use and Habitat Selection by Resident and Transient Red Wolves (Canis rufus)
April 2, 2024
Recovery of large carnivores remains a challenge because complex spatial dynamics that facilitate population persistence are poorly understood. In particular, recovery of the critically endangered red wolf (Canis rufus) has been challenging because of its vulnerability to extinction via human-caused … read more
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Red Wolf (Canis rufus) Recovery: A Review with Suggestions for Future Research
April 2, 2024
Once widespread in the Eastern United States, early 20th century predator-control programs reduced red wolves to a remnant population by the 1970s. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Red Wolf Recovery Program, restored red wolves to northeastern North … read more
Posted in Regional Wolves, Southeast-Red Wolves | Tagged Canis latrans, Canis rufus, conservation, coyote, demographics, hybridization, inbreeding, red wolf

Reviving Ghost Alleles: Genetically admixed coyotes along the American Gulf Coast are critical for saving the endangered red wolf
August 31, 2022
The last known red wolves were captured in southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas in 1980 to establish a captive breeding population. Before their extirpation, gene flow with coyotes resulted in the persistence of endangered red wolf genetic variation in local … read more
Posted in News, Regional Wolves, Southeast-Red Wolves | Tagged American Gulf Coast, coyotes, endangered, genetic, Red Wolves

Evaluating how management policies affect red wolf mortality and disappearance
May 31, 2022
Poaching is the major cause of death for large carnivores in several regions, contributing to their global endangerment. The traditional hypothesis used in wildlife management (killing for tolerance) suggests reducing protections for a species will decrease poaching. However, recent studies … read more
Posted in News, Regional Wolves, Southeast-Red Wolves | Tagged Canis rufus, endangered species, large carnivore, poaching, policy signal, survival analysis

Rediscovery of Red Wolf Ghost Alleles in a Canid Population Along the American Gulf Coast
December 29, 2018
Though red wolves were declared extinct in the wild by 1980, a team of biologists has found their DNA in a group of canines living on Galveston Island off the coast of Texas. DOWNLOAD PDF
Posted in News, Regional Wolves, Southeast-Red Wolves | Tagged alleles, along, canid, ghost, population, rediscovery