American Red Wolf-Special Adoption

Special American Red Wolf Adoption Package 

Proceeds from this special adoption package will support the North Carolina Zoo's ongoing efforts to save the American Red Wolf from extinction and help restore it to part of its former home in North Carolina.

The American Red Wolf is the world's rarest dog species and its only wild population lives in a five-county area on North Carolina's Albemarle Sound. This wild population currently consists of fewer than 30 individuals, all of whom descended from the last known group of these animals—only 14 had survived. Thanks to the US Fish & Wildlife Service and what has grown to be 50 American zoological institutions, the wolf's population has grown to nearly 300 animals. Our goals are continue to bred and increase the wolf's total population and establish a viable population of wolves in the wild's of North Carolina. After that, we hope to establish a second wild population.

The Adoption Package Includes:

• A "smart" plush Red Wolf that can track the movements of a wild red wolf.*

• A personalized adoption certificate

• A matte framed portrait of a Zoo Red Wolves poising with her four cubs 

• A copy of Freedom's Howl, a story about a pioneer family living and their wolf neighbors
  
  A paw print from a Zoo wolf

• A Red Wolf air tag holder

• An  "I'm Saving the Red Wolf" magnet

• A Red Wolf Fact Sheet and Sticker