A fox from San Nicolas Island, part of the Channel Islands, will have a new home on the mainland after she was recently treated at the Santa Barbara Zoo for a broken leg. The injured fox was ...

Each fall, a dedicated crew of experienced biologists travels to San Nicolas Island — part of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) — to conduct the annual population survey of the State Threatened San ...

THE GOLDEN STATE... is home to so many beautiful and fascinating fauna, from the condors that soar over the Big Sur surf to the bears that trundle through the higher points of the Sierra Nevada. These ...

Island foxes, one of the only carnivores endemic to California, have been distinguished from foxes on the mainland by 16,000 years of evolution — ever since they colonized the modern-day Channel ...

The island fox (Urocyon littoralis) is a small fox species that is endemic to six of the eight Channel Islands of California. Image by Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US - Island fox, ...

A small fox that lives on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California is thriving after near extinction. The island fox - found nowhere else on Earth - was listed as endangered in 2004 ...

The Catalina Island Conservancy has officially launched a new program aimed at educating the island’s residents and visitors alike about wildfire danger and prevention — with help from a new mascot ...