"Can Red Wolves Be Saved Again?"

"Their fate is mired in politics, bickering, scientific disputes and a legal challenge"

"ALLIGATOR RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, N.C. — This sprawling mix of swamp and forest is the only place in the world where red wolves live in the wild, and on a breezy afternoon Ron Sutherland set out to find one.

He drove an SUV slowly on lumpy dirt roads for nearly four hours, scanning spindly trees, murky canals, green thickets and muck. Two other sharp-eyed conservationists helping to search from the back seat also saw nothing.

A second fruitless search the next morning left little doubt: The red wolf, which went extinct in the wild before the federal government managed to revive the species, is disappearing again, maybe forever."

Darryl Fears reports for the Washington Post February 5, 2018 with photos by Salwan Georges.