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What do pigs, mosquitoes, and golden eagles have to do with restoring the population of endangered island foxes? @NPRskunkbear looks at the big picture in the Channel Islands off the coast of California.
youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka…
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Happy to have been featured in this piece by @NPRskunkbear. Just the kind of feel-good conservation story to start off our #SundayMorning. 🦊
Learn more about the foxes (and their crazy road from the brink of extinction to recovery) in our latest episode: youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka…
Island foxes (like this little guy) are all descended from just a few individuals who first colonized their islands (what biologists call a population bottleneck). So - they have EXTREMELY low genetic diversity.
So they're perfectly happy running around a little island with a bunch of foxes that are more or less identical twins!
Learn more about the foxes (and their crazy road from the brink of extinction to recovery) in our latest episode: youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka…
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I think this little fox is my calico cat's cousin. Watching how it has been saved from extinction will make you day. Truly. @NPR
The adorable island fox is only found on an island chain off CA. There's a theory that they filled a cat-like role for the native Chumash people - begging for scraps around camp and keeping mice away.
Learn about the fight to save this species: youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka…
How to save the 🦊?
💸💸💸,🏃♀️🏃♂️🏃♀️🏃♂️💪,🕓, @CHISNPS, @nature_org
1⃣ eradicate 🐖🐖🐖
2⃣ chase down golden eagles in a 🚁, catch with a 🥅
3⃣ relocate goldens to other side of 🏔️🏔️🏔️
4⃣ raise new🥚🐣🦅
5⃣ restore native 🌿
6⃣ 🦊❤️🦊-->🍼🦊
🦊📈!
A Series Of Unfortunate Events:
🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧 use DDT(🥃) to stop malaria🦟 in WWII
🥃pollutes 🌊->🐟->🦅->☠️🥚!
On the Channel Islands, golden eagles replace 🦅,
attracted by feral 🐖🐖🐖 that 👨🌾 brought in 1853
The golden's side dish: a rare 🦊
🦊 population 📉
youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka…
A Series Of Unfortunate Events:
🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧 use DDT(🥃) to stop malaria🦟 in WWII
🥃pollutes 🌊->🐟->🦅->☠️🥚!
On the Channel Islands, golden eagles replace 🦅,
attracted by feral 🐖🐖🐖 that 👨🌾 brought in 1853
The golden's side dish: a rare 🦊
🦊 population 📉
youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka…
The adorable island fox is only found on an island chain off CA. There's a theory that they filled a cat-like role for the native Chumash people - begging for scraps around camp and keeping mice away.
Learn about the fight to save this species: youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka…
When the world’s population of Channel Island foxes plummeted to near extinction in the ‘90s no one knew why. Bringing them back meant unraveling a mystery that started with WWII (NEW EPISODE: youtube.com/watch?v=2AVRSGka… )
Here's the story of a true comeback kit! It jumped off the endangered species list just 12 years after it... youtu.be/2AVRSGkartg?a
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What a dramatic and terrible image.
Smoke from the California #wildfires is seen making its way over the Pacific Ocean in this #GOESEast loop from Monday, Nov. 12. More imagery: go.usa.gov/xPfDc