Wildlife Conservation

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e their efforts, out of the four hundred found, only seventeen were “pure”. The conservationists divided up these remaining wolves between zoos to ensure that one disaster would not kill them all off.
The Red Wolves in Point Defiance refused to breed at first. It took them a year to adapt to being in captivity and become comfortable with their surroundings. When they finally began to mate, a deadly disease broke out called Parvo and killed many of the new pups. Despite the disease, by the 1980’s they had successfully bred and were now at a total number of seventy-five wolves, which was considerably high considering their starting number.
The conservationists began looking around for places to set the animals free. The first chosen site was an area of one hundred forty-one thousand acres in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refugee in North Carolina. The refuge was not fenced in at the ends so it was possible for the occasional wolf to wander outside of the boundaries. Because of this, they had to get the permission from s...