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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Allen G. Breed and Christina Larson

A North Carolina wildlife crossing will save people. Can it save the last wild red wolves too?

Wildlife Crossings - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists.

That fact was brought home last June, when red wolf breeding male No. 2444 was struck and killed on U.S. 64 near Manns Harbor, North Carolina. His death likely meant five pups he'd been providing for died, too.

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