{"id":22817,"date":"2025-05-30T15:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=22817"},"modified":"2025-05-30T15:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:17:03","slug":"back-from-the-brink-for-catalina-island-conservancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/30\/back-from-the-brink-for-catalina-island-conservancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from the Brink for Catalina Island Conservancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/clients\/back-from-the-brink\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back from the Brink: Resurgence of the Catalina Island Fox<\/a> tells the story of one of the greatest conservation successes in United States history.<\/p>\n<p>Once teetering on the brink of extinction, the fox has made a dramatic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>A unique subspecies that can only be found on Catalina Island, it typically weighs only 4 to 6 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1990s, a unique strain of canine distemper introduced from the mainland by a stowaway raccoon rapidly swept over the island, leaving less than 100 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially designated the Catalina Island fox as an endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalina Island Conservancy assembled a team of scientists and conservationists who scrambled to save the animal.<\/p>\n<p>By 2016, there were more foxes living on the island than there had been before the outbreak, and the fox was removed from the endangered list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/clients\/back-from-the-brink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-30-at-1.15.35\u202fPM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22966\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/clients\/back-from-the-brink\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Back from the Brink: Resurgence of the Catalina Island Fox<\/a> tells the story of one of the greatest conservation successes in United States history.<\/p>\n<p><P>Once teetering on the edge of extinction, the Santa Catalina Island Fox has made a dramatic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":22821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia-projects","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22817"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22968,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22817\/revisions\/22968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}