Conservation efforts have brought back the Santa Cruz Island fox from the brink of extinction from 100 in 2000 to more than 1,300 today. Nestled among California's Channel Islands you'll find ...

An island fox is groomed by its mate near a national park campsite on Santa Cruz island. The foxes’ diet includes insects, worms, mice, even ticks. Photograph by Melissa Groo, National Geographic ...

Today Tim Coonan, a wildlife biologist, estimates that there are at least 1,300 foxes on Santa Cruz Island, up from a mere 55 in l999. At about the same time biologists on Catalina discovered the fox ...

Island fox Chuck Graham. It wasn’t long ago when the Channel Islands National Park was nearly void of the tiny, endemic island fox, the largest land predator on the windswept northern chain. At the ...

2002-05-22 04:00:00 PDT Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands-- In the 20,000 years of its secluded residence here, the Channel Island fox never acquired the habit of looking up -- which helps ...

12:00 a.m. June 14, 2019: Santa Cruz Island kayaks: In the June 9 Travel section, an articleabout Santa Cruz Island said that Channel Island Adventure Co. rentskayaks.

Ten Santa Cruz Island fox pups have been released into the wild, the last of a group reared in captivity as part of an effort to restore the endangered species.

Today there are about 1,300 foxes on Santa Cruz Island, 500 on San Miguel Island, and 600 on Santa Rosa Island, with each population having a 90 percent annual survival rate. "It's a strange thing ...

The San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Island fox populations improve after recovery efforts. No paywalls. No subscriptions. Noozhawk is free for everyone!

Historically, Santa Cruz Island had once been home to about 1,500 island foxes, with 1,000 on Santa Rosa and 400 on San Miguel Islands, but the eagles drastically reduced those numbers.

In the early 1990s, the fox began to disappear from Santa Cruz Island at an alarming rate. Biologists concluded that golden eagles, attracted by the easy prey of piglets, had colonized the island ...