Projet CFC

Réintroduction du renard véloce

Statut de l'espèce : En voie de disparition au Canada
Action requise : Post-release monitoring
Lieu : Alberta and Saskatchewan

Espèce

Once common in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the swift fox vanished from the Canadian prairies in the 1930s. Learn more about this species.

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Wildlife Preservation Canada’s involvement with the swift fox began in the mid-1990s, when we supported the l'élevage de conservation program at Alberta’s Cochrane Ecological Institute, which was part of a réintroduction program that also translocated wild foxes from sites in the U.S. Since then, we have supported periodic field surveys to determine how the wild population in Canada is faring. The surveys, which included both camera-trap monitoring and live trapping, were conducted over a wide range in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana.

The Cochrane Ecological Institute swift fox l'élevage de conservation program was headed by Clio Smeeton, a founding member of the Alberta Wildlife Rehabilitation Association and former curator of the Children’s Zoo at the Calgary Zoo. Follow-up studies of the long-term survival rates, habitat requirements, numbers and dispersion of the released foxes and their descendants were carried out by Dr. Axel Moehrenschlager, now head of the Centre for Conservation and Research at the Calgary Zoo, and Cynthia Moehrenschlager , who has led coordination of recovery efforts since 1995.

Thanks to the reintroduction initiative, the national conservation status of the species was downlisted from Disparu localement to En voie de disparition in 1999 and then to Menacée in 2012. After a 60-year absence, swift foxes are once again at home in the wild in Canada.

Moehrenschlager, A. and C. Moehrenschlager.  2006.  Population census of reintroduced swift foxes (Vulpes velox) in Canada and northern Montana 2005/2006.  Centre for Conservation Research Report No. 1, Calgary Zoo.  Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 32 pp.

Moehrenschlager, A. and C. Moehrenschlager.  2001. Census of Swift Fox (Vulpes velox) in Canada and Northern Montana: 2000-2001. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Fish and Wildlife Division, Alberta Species at Risk Report No. 24. Edmonton, Alberta. 21 pp.

Personnel du projet

The Cochrane Ecological Institute swift fox l'élevage de conservation program was headed by Clio Smeeton, a founding member of the Alberta Wildlife Rehabilitation Association and former curator of the Children’s Zoo at the Calgary Zoo. Follow-up studies of the long-term survival rates, habitat requirements, numbers and dispersion of the released foxes and their descendants were carried out by Dr. Axel Moehrenschlager, now head of the Centre for Conservation and Research at the Calgary Zoo, and Cynthia Moehrenschlager , who has led coordination of recovery efforts since 1995.

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