To halt the downward spiral of island
fox populations, the Service partnered with the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, and Catalina Island Conservancy to launch a series of recovery actions that included relocating non-native golden eagles from the northern Channel Islands; removing the non-native species that provided prey for the eagles; vaccinating
foxes against canine distemper; and breeding
foxes in captivity and reestablishing them to the
wild.