While the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to resume work to recover the red wolf, its decision to label the species as "nonessential" under the Endangered Species Act has spurred a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity.
In the wake of two lawsuits that claimed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to work to boost the wild population of red wolves in North Carolina, the agency has reached a settlement that lays out a process for helping the species avoid extinction.