The introduction of nonnative pigs, deer and elk to the islands provided additional prey for the invading golden eagles, and livestock reduced fox habitat. Island foxes have also been very vulnerable ...

The first island fox census estimated 450 foxes ... scientists worked on every level: relocating golden eagles, eliminating ranch animals, restoring habitat, and capturing most of the remaining ...

Island foxes, one of the only carnivores endemic ... in modern times they've been threatened by golden-eagle predation, diseases introduced by domestic dogs, diminished food supply, and habitat loss ...

For years, as part of the same effort, they’ve been trying to get golden eagles to leave ... also are suspected in the death of 20 island foxes, which scientists are desperately trying to ...

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and Photographer Chuck Graham tell a visual story of the remarkable recovery.

Just 12 years ago, researchers feared that the California Island fox, a species about the size of a cat inhabiting a group of islands off the Southern California coast, was toast. Nonnative ...

And golden eagles, as it turned out, had a distinct taste for the Channel Island fox, a gentle species whose ancestors probably floated over during the Pleistocene era aboard rafts of debris from ...

The tale of the island’s golden-crowned flying foxes, which used to swoop across ... that some Boracay bat species had transferred their habitat to the nearby roosting site at Barangay Guia ...

Despite efforts to remove the golden eagles that prey on them, fox populations are dwindling so quickly on Santa Cruz Island that scientists probably will have to start a captive breeding program ...