Sentences with phrase «endangered island fox»

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.

He cited the endangered island fox found in Channel Islands National Park off the southern California coast, whose DNA (from blood samples) will likely be one of the first additions to the collection.

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 efforts.

For example, monitoring data shows that deer mouse densities on San Miguel Island are strongly limited by the endangered island fox (Urocyon littoralis littoralis), whereas on Santa Barbara Island, where there are no foxes, mouse densities are much more variable.

You can play an important role in helping the endangered island fox.

During the December «From Shore to Sea» lecture National Park Service Wildlife Biologist, Tim Coonan, discussed the latest efforts to save the endangered island fox following a severe, over 90 % decline in the population caused by golden eagle predation.

Recovery of bald eagles on the northern Channel Islands was seen as critical to recovery of the endangered island fox, since nesting bald eagles might dissuade dispersing golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) from establishing breeding territories on the islands (Coonan et al. 2010).

Because nesting bald eagles can deter golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) from breeding, the recovery of bald eagles on the northern Channel Islands has also helped enable recovery of the endangered island fox.

Pathogen exposure in endangered island fox (Urocyon littoralis) populations: Implications for conservation management.

To examine mechanisms for the origins of island endemism, we present a phylogeographic analysis of whole mitochondrial genomes from the endangered island fox (Urocyon littoralis), endemic to California's Channel Islands, and mainland gray foxes (U. cinereoargenteus).

Skunks on Santa Cruz Island may be nearing or even exceeding carrying capacity, and the future of the population and its effects on the endangered island fox remain unclear.

This leaves local seabirds — which are threatened due to pollution and diminished coastal fish populations — and the already - endangered island fox.