Findings of
the Island Fox Conservation Working Group, June 25 - 27, 2003.
Additional information about the strategies developed and implemented to reverse this situation may be found at
Island Fox Conservation.
The two actions had been planned and funded separately from island fox recovery, but the value of those planned actions to
island fox conservation was recognized when the complicated relationship among foxes, pigs, and eagles became apparent.
Island Fox Ambassadors are individuals, classes, groups, grades, or whole schools where the students have taken a special interest in
island fox conservation and have participated in some way to help save endangered island foxes.
The most positive note of all is that
the Island Fox Conservation Recovery Group continues to meet.
The annual meeting of
the Island Fox Conservation Working Group reported that the general status of the six subspecies of Channel Island foxes is GOOD.
Will they raise funds for some aspect of
island fox conservation?
An affiliated group of management agencies, landowners, academics, and non-profits concerned with the conservation of the island fox has convened since 1999 to exchange information regarding the status and trend of the six island fox subspecies, and to work cooperatively on
island fox conservations issues in such areas as captive breeding, wild population management, veterinary issues, and educational / outreach.
Not exact matches
The flying
foxes on Pemba
Island in the Indian Ocean were reduced to just a few individuals in the 1980s, but the population recovered to more than 20,000 over the course of 20 years of
conservation efforts.
The ZooKeys article describes the first study of the behavior, diet, and
conservation status of this flying
fox, finding that the Mortlock
Islands support a small population of 900 to 1200 bats scattered across a land surface of only 12 km2 (4.6 square miles).
«The
Island Fox recovery is an incredible success story about the power of partnerships,» US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a press release, «and the ability of collaborative
conservation to correct course for a species on the brink of extinction.»
Friends of the
Island Fox provides presentations to schools and community groups in order to create public awareness about the endangered island fox and to raise funds to support island fox related education, research, and conservation ef
Island Fox provides presentations to schools and community groups in order to create public awareness about the endangered island fox and to raise funds to support island fox related education, research, and conservation effor
Fox provides presentations to schools and community groups in order to create public awareness about the endangered
island fox and to raise funds to support island fox related education, research, and conservation ef
island fox and to raise funds to support island fox related education, research, and conservation effor
fox and to raise funds to support
island fox related education, research, and conservation ef
island fox related education, research, and conservation effor
fox related education, research, and
conservation efforts.
Clearly,
island fox evolutionary history has been intertwined with humans across the entire timespan of Native American, Euro - American ranching, and modern
conservation management eras.
Pathogen exposure in endangered
island fox (Urocyon littoralis) populations: Implications for
conservation management.
With the continuation of such determined
conservation efforts, hopefully the
island fox will one day serve as an example of how critically endangered species can be pulled back from the brink of extinction.
Resource exploitation by
island foxes: implications for
conservation.
Prepared by the
Conservation Biology Institute and The Nature Conservancy for the Recovery Coordination Group of the
Island Fox Integrated Recovery Team.
The ecology and
conservation of the
island fox (Urocyon littoralis).