Species
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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The Cochrane Ecological Institute swift fox conservation breeding 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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