Video: In California: Release of Channel Island Fox M67

Our friends, Keri and Michael, are deeply involved with Friends on the Island Fox and took this video of a Channel Island Fox being released back into the wild yesterday. Full details are in their post below. I am so glad to have been involved in the creation of the Friends web site so that they can continue to share successes such as this with the world.

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In the past few weeks, 31 island foxes from the Santa Rosa Island breeding facility have been returned to the wild.

November 7, 2008 - as Pat Meyer and Friends of the Island Fox, Inc. board members and members of the press looked on, National Park Service biologist Tim Coonan opened the door to freedom for M67. The little 6 year-old male fox was born in the captive breeding facility and over the years had been paired with several females. Now, he sat gazing at the wide open expanse around him.

After a quick look over his shoulder, the little island fox bounded off through the low bushes. As he disappeared over a small hill, we heard the hardy beep, beep, beep of the signal from his radio tracking collar. This historic little fox has returned to the wild wearing a radio collar funded by donations to Friends of the Island Fox.