I want to keep them from becoming extinct. To this day, in Alaska, though it is highly illegal according to the Endgangered Species Act, people are riding on snow mobiles and massacring them at random. Ranchers in the great plains states are encroaching on their habitat depriving them of their food supply and killing them if they so much as breath near a cow. I mean, they will kill a momma wolf, put her pups in a sack and beat them to death or drown them. They're numbers are thinning.
However, I want to work for all endangered species, just, you know, wolves occupy a very special place in my heart. They have since I was a kid. As I said in a previous thread, when I first heard "Little Red Riding Hood" I was outraged. I hated that story.
In NC, where I live, people all but completely wiped out the Red Wolf. The only live Red Wolves were in captive sanctuaries. It's just been in the last ten years that they've been reintroduced back into the wild. They're starting to get a foothold.
Another problem is the people that think wolves would make great pets and cross breed them with dogs polluting the lines and creating hybrids. And this is a problem with many endangered species... people taking them as pets... You see it a lot with the Bengal and Siberian Tigers and with lions.
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