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By 2016, the red wolf population of North Carolina had declined to 45–60 wolves. The largest cause of this decline was gunshot. [67] In June 2018, the USFWS announced a proposal that would limit the wolves' safe range to only Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, where only about 35 wolves remain, thus allowing hunting on private land.
2012: The red wolf population in Alligator River, Pocosin Lakes and the surrounding five-county area reaches an estimated 120 red wolves. 2015: The Fish and Wildlife Service decides to stop ...
On average, a red wolf lives six years, according to the N.C. Zoo. The oldest known red wolf on record died of natural causes last year at Alligator River. She was 14 years old.
The wolf population rose dramatically for a while, reaching a peak of 120 in 2012, before the species declined again, largely due to wolves being shot or hit by cars, officials said.
During that time, the Idaho wolf population had made the most remarkable comeback in the region, with its abundant federal lands and wilderness areas peaking at nearly 900 wolves (almost half of the regional wolf population) in 2009. However, the wolves have increasingly been blamed for livestock and hunting opportunity losses.
Having reached that goal in 1999 with a population of 197, the state adopted the Wisconsin Wolf Management Plan for guidance towards eventual delisting. [10] In 2003, the status of wolves in Wisconsin moved down to threatened rather than endangered. The known population in 2004 was 335 which included 8 on Indian reservations. [11]
After red wolves were reintroduced, the state's wild population grew beyond 100 and remained stable through 2012. Wolf numbers were bolstered by releases of captive-born pups and sterilization of ...
The population increased again by 1980 to about 75,000, with 32,000 being killed in 1979. [26] Wolf populations in northern Inner Mongolia declined during the 1940s, primarily because of poaching of gazelles, the wolf's main prey. [27] In British-ruled India, wolves were heavily persecuted because of their attacks on sheep, goats and children.