Red wolf: the struggle to save one of the rarest animals on Earth
by Oliver Milman in Alligator River national wildlife from Environment | The Guardian on (#4AHSJ)
Conservation groups say Trump administration plan that would scale the wolves' protected area and allow people to shoot the species on private land will snuff out the species
Attempting to locate one of the rarest animals on the planet, US government scientist Joe Madison pointed an antiquated VHF tracking antenna at a tangle of thick vegetation and twiddled some dials on the receiver. A red wolf, judging by the beeps, was in the vicinity but well-hidden.
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