Historically, the red wolves lives throughout most of the eastern United States, from Texas to Pennsylvania (Natural History, 2019). However, when more settlers started coming to America, more land was used for towns, cities, and farms. Being viewed as a pest, the red wolves started getting pushed further away from farms and settlements, and  into a smaller amount of habitat. Now, 99.7% of the original red wolf territory had been lost, and those remaining in the wild are fairly limited to a small area reserved for an experimental population in North Carolina (Defenders of Wildlife, 2019). Each red wolf pack needs somewhere in the range of 100 to 1,000 square miles in order to survive, the equivalent of this is three humans living in a house the size of 4 and a half refrigerators. The remaining space left for the 5 or so wolf packs left is only 2,600 square miles, causing competition between wolves due to the cramped quarters they live in (Wolf FAQ’s, 2019). The acronym HIPPCO represents the greatest threats posed to biodiversity; the H stands for habitat loss and the first P stands for human population growth. This shows how detrimental the loss and invasion of land can be for a species, further proving why the extreme loss of red wolf territory has led to the endangered status they maintain today.