Government offers plan to release more endangered red wolves

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Government wildlife officials say they have released two more critically endangered red wolves into the wild in North Carolina.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a court filing Monday that it brought two male wolves from a Florida wildlife refuge.
The agency paired them with wild female wolves from North Carolina and let them loose in February.
One of the male wolves was later killed by a car.
The service also plans to release another captive-bred pair this summer. A judge had ordered them to come up with the plan for more releases. Wolf conservation groups responded that the government needs to move faster.
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