Conservation groups allege US has failed to protect endangered red wolf
by Oliver Milman in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#TWYA)
US Fish and Wildlife Service has allowed one of world's rarest wolves to be killed, as an estimated 50 to 75 are left in North Carolina wilderness, lawsuit alleges
The US government has failed to properly protect the red wolf, one of the world's rarest wolves, by allowing a member of the species' small wild population to be killed, conservationists have claimed.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has been taken to court by a coalition of environmental groups that argues it has not properly protected the endangered red wolf, with estimates of just 50 to 75 of the animals left in the wild in North Carolina.
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