{"id":753100,"date":"2018-05-04T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753100"},"modified":"2018-05-04T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:09:19","slug":"us-government-wild-red-wolf-population-could-soon-be-wiped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753100","title":{"rendered":"US Government: Wild red wolf population could soon be wiped out"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>These wild wolves could vanish in as little as a decade.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JONATHAN DREW:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The only wild population of endangered red wolves is unsustainable and could be wiped out within a decade after dwindling to a few dozen, government officials said in a report. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service review of the species\u2019 status estimates that only about 40 wolves remain in the wild in eastern North Carolina, down from a peak of about 120 a decade ago. \u201cThe population cannot recover from their losses and overcome mortality resulting in a steadily declining population,\u201d the review states, predicting these wild wolves could vanish in as little as a decade&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Conservationists contend the wild decline is due to neglect by federal officials who have halted releases of captive-born wolves and other efforts to bolster their numbers, such as sterilizing coyotes that compete for territory. Last month, conservation groups asked a federal judge to order those efforts to resume, saying it\u2019s not too late to save the wild wolves&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/04\/24\/red-wolf-extinction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bH-cu0rEpBY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JONATHAN DREW: &#8216;The only wild population of endangered red wolves is unsustainable and could be wiped out within a decade after dwindling to a few dozen, government officials said in a report. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service review of the species\u2019 status estimates that only about 40 wolves remain in the wild in eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17,25],"tags":[30,32,35],"class_list":["post-753100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-welfare","tag-exploitation","tag-free-living","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753102,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753100\/revisions\/753102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}