Now you have the opportunity to help this beautiful species flourish in the Wild! Once a great American icon, the Red Wolf is a majestic and powerful symbol of strength and beauty. For Native Americans, the red wolf is associated with courage, loyalty and success at hunting. Many stories and legends revolve around the wolf and it is a…
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Jeff Mittelstadt, a 1999 Davidson graduate, is the founder and president of WildSides, an award-winning nature documentary and educational program that provides common ground for the issues of human-wildlife conflicts. His projects include nature documentaries and other resources that highlight the various voices behind different wildlife conservation programs. WildSides has preformed extensive projects to shed light on…
March 17, 2016
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The North Carolina state Wildlife Resources Commission has asked the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services to remove the entire population of red wolves that resides within it’s borders. Thus, causing the red wolf species to become extinct in the wild… again. A Species Survival Plan (SSP) has been developed with the hopes of successfully reintroducing red wolves back…
February 25, 2016
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Found exclusively in eastern regions of North Carolina, the newly introduced red wolf (Canis rufus) is quite a hot topic. In the early part of the 20th century, the red wolf was dangerously close to extinction as a result of “intensive predator control programs and the degradation and alteration of the species’ habitat” (U.S. Fish and…
