Red Wolf - Status and Trends

IUCN Status:

• 1960’s - 1994: Endangered
• 1996 - 2003: Critically Endangered (Criteria: D) (IUCN 2003a)
• 2004: Critically Endangered (Criteria: D) (Population Trend: Increasing) (IUCN 2004)

Countries Where the Red Wolf Is Currently Found:

2004: Occurs in re-introduced populations in the USA. May occur in Canada. (IUCN 2004)

Population Estimates:

[Note: Figures given are for wild populations only. After 1990, all populations are re-introduced.]

WORLD (USA)

• First half of the 1900’s: Perhaps numbering in the hundreds of thousands
• 1973: 100
• 1980 - 1987: 0
• 1990: 8
• 1993: 46 - 60
• 2002: At least 100
• 2004: Less than 150