{"id":27238,"date":"2021-02-16T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/?p=27238"},"modified":"2021-02-17T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T14:19:30","slug":"usfws-transfers-two-red-wolf-to-recovery-area-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/2021\/02\/usfws-transfers-two-red-wolf-to-recovery-area-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"USFWS Transfers Two Red Wolves to Recovery Area in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>North Carolina just got a little bit wilder! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released two male red wolves onto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Alligator-River-National-Wildlife-Refuge-109212989097114\/?__cft__[0]=AZXSBPSADKzfqshlYThWQbORKFMQSu-E1wr75tpESnVfCd5oLBUfUKoPCZU1ilqO82SQy8KEkuBZCBUE-SKIWiq2pvHGR2m8xamWDQvI50SINtOHk5FUjo29MEu29aXTnL5_kUxpmz4nfRyetxslvYtH_40CGh5_rvkr5EkHU4bSpwh-srRufTqah5w5OHO9eA00bsk35wQfCMVQHEIT6h23qh8Hs7po0hcZxJInzkSJDQ&amp;__tn__=kK-R\">Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge<\/a> in eastern N.C.! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fredwolfrecoveryprogram%2Fvideos%2F1000616563680151%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this season, USFWS moved the red wolf boys from the St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge &#8211; an island propagation site off the coast of Florida &#8211; to Alligator River to spend over a month in acclimation pens with non-breeding resident red wolf females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond providing potential red wolf breeding opportunities in the wild, this effort boosts the known population of wild red wolves from eight to ten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no active breeding pairs or pups born in 2019 or 2020, this translocation is an essential first step for recovering their imperiled species, with additional steps to follow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle, of the Eastern District of North Carolina, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernenvironment.org\/uploads\/words_docs\/PI_Order.1.22.21.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a>&nbsp;in a case brought by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southernenvironment.org\/news-and-press\/news-feed\/a-win-for-wild-red-wolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Southern Environmental Law Center<\/a> (SELC) that the USFWS must develop an emergency captive-to-wild red wolf release plan by March 1 of this year to prevent extinction of red wolves in the near-term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wild is calling! Stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina just got a little bit wilder! Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released two male red wolves onto Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in eastern N.C.!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":27239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27244,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27238\/revisions\/27244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nywolf.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}