00:00The rarest wolves on earth. Survivors clinging to vanishing wild spaces.
00:06Others are barely holding on. The rarest wolves on earth are not just animals on a list.
00:12They are survivors living in the last places humans have left for them.
00:18The red wolf may be the most desperate. Once found across the southeastern United States,
00:23it now survives in the wild only in eastern North Carolina, with just a few dozen left.
00:30The Ethiopian wolf lives high in Ethiopia's mountains, hunting rodents and Afro-Alpine grasslands.
00:36Fewer than 500 remain, making it one of the rarest wild conids on earth.
00:42The Mexican gray wolf, or lobo, survives in Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico after nearly being wiped out.
00:50The Himalayan wolf clings to cold, high-altitude landscapes of Central and South Asia.
00:56The Indian wolf survives in grasslands and scrublands where human pressure keeps rising.
01:02The Arabian wolf lives in desert and mountain regions of the Middle East smaller and leaner than northern wolves.
01:08The Iberian wolf survives in Spain and Portugal, shaped by conflict with livestock owners.
01:15The Italian wolf has recovered from near disaster but still depends on connected habitat through the Apennines and Alps.
01:22The Eastern wolf, found around parts of Canada, remains tangled in scientific debate, but its conservation value is real.
01:30The Vancouver Island wolf survives along the Pacific coast, sometimes swimming between islands and feeding from land and sea.
01:38The Alexander Archipelago wolf lives in southeast Alaska's coastal rainforest.
01:44The Mongolian wolf roams steppe and desert-edge habitats under growing pressure.
01:50And the Arctic wolf survives in one of Earth's harshest homes, where ice, distance, and isolation protect it more than
01:57people do.
01:58These wolves do not all look the same.
02:01They do not all hunt the same prey.
02:04They do not all face the same danger.
02:07But everyone carries the same question.
02:11Will humans leave enough wild space for wolves to remain wolves?
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