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Tenino, WA and Bridger, MT - Wolf Haven International is pleased to be part of an historic release of endangered red wolves into the wild. F2216 from Wolf Haven became one of the the first captive born adult wolves released into the wild in 23 years. Red wolves are solely native to the United States, historically the southeastern part. Over the past 14 years, however, the population in the wild dwindled to fewer than 10 red wolves.
The four year-old female was born at the sanctuary into a litter of eight pups, and was one a multi-generational family group of 14 red wolves at Wolf Haven. On April 24, F2216 was flown commercially on Alaska Airlines and transferred from Washington State to North Carolina, where she was released into an acclimation pen there. F2216 is currently living in the wild at Pocossin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, in North Carolina.
Wolf Haven also participates in the Mexican Wolf Species Survival Plan program. Nine litters of Mexican wolves have been born at Wolf Haven and three family groups released into the wild in the U.S. and Mexico.
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