Feds: Remove 3 California foxes from endangered species list

Federal wildlife officials recommended Friday that three fox subspecies native to California's Channel Islands be removed from the endangered species, saying their populations have made an historic recovery.

The foxes on islands lying just off the state's southern coast were once on the brink of extinction.
"We've been able to stop impairment and recover a species," said Russell Galipeau, superintendent of Channel Islands National Park, which encompasses five of the archipelago's eight islands.


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