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Is it fair to release captive-bred animals to reintroduce a species if people in the release area are determined to prevent the animals from repopulating their previous habitat? Conservation as practiced now has no regard for the suffering of individual animals, and this needs to change if an increasingly concerned public is to support conservation efforts. The red wolves who have survived past pogroms hybridized with coyotes and the ones in the wild who survive now will continue to hybridize with coyotes if they are allowed to do so. This is the way of nature, with genetic mingling a major engine of evolution. Reintroduction of red wolves may–at least at this time–require too high a price for the animals themselves.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/07/08/red-wolf-and-mexican-wolf?cmpid=tpweekly-eml-2016-07-09-multi

Two Endangered Wolf Species Get Separate and Unequal TreatmentThe federal government is bowing to North Carolina’s demands to stop releasing red wolves while defying New Mexico on Mexican gray wolves.