Sentences with phrase «island fox recovery»

Island fox recovery efforts on Santa Catalina Island, California, September 2000 — October 2001.

Island fox recovery program: Channel Islands National Park 2011 annual report.

Island fox recovery program: 2010 annual report.

In 1999, Channel Islands National Park began an island fox recovery program that included captive breeding and reintroduction of foxes, removal of resident golden eagles, re-establishment of bald eagles, and removal of non-native ungulates.

That those two ecosystem level actions were implemented in conjunction with island fox recovery actions was fortuitous.

The recovery of bald eagles on the California Channel Islands has played an important role in island fox recovery.

Island fox recovery is still going to be a long journey with many challenges, but... [we] are making, and will continue to make far - reaching achievements in ecological restoration and what is most important to remember is that in a world of troubling times someone, somewhere must provide a ray of hope.»

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.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service will likely release a draft island fox recovery plan in 2012.

Simply relocating the existing golden eagles would not assure island fox recovery.

«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.»

National Park Service staff will share how they protect the park resources at stations on island fox recovery, kelp forest monitoring, shipwreck research, historic preservation, and more.

«The recent island fox recovery was the result of an impressive collaboration of scientists and land managers.

Not exact matches

As on the other islands, the National Park Service has made great efforts to preserve and protect these island resources, including enforcement of marine protected areas, stabilization of cultural sites, rehabilitation of historic buildings, removal of nonnative plants and animals, recovery of island foxes, and reestablishment of bald eagles.

Three fox subspecies native to California's Channel Islands were removed from the list of endangered species on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in what federal officials have called the fastest recovery of any mammal listed under the Endangered Species Act.

The removal of the San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Island fox subspecies from the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife would be an historic success for the multiple partners involved in recovery efforts.

Service Proposes Delisting Three Fox Subspecies on Northern Channel Islands Due to Recovery, Highlighting Historic Endangered Species Act Success

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 theisland 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 theIsland 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.

The most positive note of all is that the Island Fox Conservation Recovery Group continues to meet.

Decline and recovery of the island fox: a case study for population recovery.

Rene Vellanoweth, an archaeologist, believes that inbreeding depression can be managed by mixing the different island fox subspecies populations much as the indigenous peoples did, by moving them from island to island, creating a higher genetic diversity and assisting them in recovery.

The Captive Breeding Program Captive breeding was a necessary - and ultimately successful - recovery action for island foxes, and it also provided an opportunity to study island fox reproductive biology, which was previously unknown.

Population trend and annual survival are currently monitored to ensure that recovery continues and future threats to the park's island fox subspecies are identified.

Current research focusing on terrestrial animals includes several studies on the island fox, one on the role of deer mice in affecting vegetation community recovery, and one on the response of lizards to the removal of rats on Anacapa.

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 alRecovery 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.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 alrecovery 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.islands (Coonan et al. 2010).

Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; draft recovery plan for four subspecies of island fox.

Decline and Recovery of the Island Fox: A Case History for Population Recovery.

Prepared by the Conservation Biology Institute and The Nature Conservancy for the Recovery Coordination Group of the Island Fox Integrated Recovery Team.

Two explanations have been proposed for this striking increase: competitive release due to decline of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis santacruzae) and vegetative recovery due to removal of feral livestock.

The other islands are also seeing huge recoveries, with 500 foxes now on San Miguel Island, and a whopping 1,300 on Santa Cruz Island.

According to the National Park Service, after reaching declines of 95 percent just a decade or so ago, the fox population today has nearly recovered — adding that «population trend and annual survival are currently monitored to ensure that recovery proceeds apace and future threats to the park's island fox subspecies are identified.»