It's not often that we can celebrate the holiday with some good news, rather than the usual plea to just do something - anything - to stem the tide of extinction. This year, however, we do have good news. Great news, actually. One of the first major changes to take place at USFWS under the Biden Administration was the restarting of the red wolf introduction program, which had been left to pretty much fizzle out in the wild. Wolves were released back into Alligator River in an attempt to reserve the drastic decline of the species, the reintroduced population of which had numbered over 100 previously.
Those recent releases have born fruit - hairy, squiggly, adorable fruit. For the first time in four years, a litter of red wolf puppies - six of them! - has been born in the wild. May many more come to follow as the species reclaims its foothold in the American southeast!
Photo Credit: Red Wolf Recovery Facebook Page
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