Sentences with phrase «when island fox»
When island fox populations on the northern islands plummeted to the edge of extinction in 1999, Channel Islands National Park and the Nature Conservancy established captive breeding facilities on San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands «as insurance against the loss of foxes from golden eagle predation.»
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When feral pigs were introduced to the islands, they attracted golden eagles that preyed on both pigs and foxes.
Extinction rates on such islands ranged from 15 % to 30 %, but when cats, foxes, or dingoes were present, the rates plummeted to just over 10 % — not much higher than on islands without any introduced predators, the scientists reported at the meeting and online this month in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography.
When gangs of foxes started wading across the water to gobble them up, the townsfolk hit upon the clever idea of posting (equally cute) sheepdogs on the island to guard the flock.
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These devoted people help maintain the health of island foxes and move quickly when disease threatens this endangered population.
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.
Unlike the generalist island fox, barn owls are more specialized predators and do not switch to other prey species when their their primary prey (mice) decline.
Captive breeding continued for the Santa Rosa Island fox (Urocyon littoralis santarosae) until 2008 when all foxes were returned to the wild.The annual survival rate climbed to 90 % in 2007 - 2009, but the incidental arrival of three juvenile golden eagles in spring 2010 caused survival to dip in that year.
The Santa Catalina Island fox became endangered when an outbreak of disease, believed to be canine distemper, killed over 85 % of the population in just a few years.
When we open the mail and find a letter like this, we take heart that island foxes and the natural world have a future.
While it is not surprising that island foxes expand territory size when there is less population density, the need for resources does not appear to be the driving force.
The success of conservationists to restore balance to the Channel Island ecosystems, once again thriving with dwarf foxes, serves as a living monument to what is possible when we work in harmony with nature — fragil as it may be, but at the same time, so incredibly resilient.