Microchips or Passive Identification Tags (PIT)
This summer you can help make a big difference for island foxes. With help from kids, friends, baseball fans and even a dog, Friends of the Island Fox has raised $2,500 for 250 microchips for island foxes on the northern islands that are part of Channel Islands National Park.
At the annual meeting of the Integrated Island Fox Recovery Team, FIF learned that 250 microchips are also needed to provide individual identification for young island foxes on Santa Catalina Island.
The biologists on Santa Catalina Island work hard to keep island foxes safe from a variety of threats:
- cars
- domestic dogs and cats
- injury from other island foxes
- fishing equipment
- motorcycles
- raccoons that bring disease from the mainland
- even fire
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| the tiny microchip goes under the skin |
As the number of island foxes on Santa Catalina stabilizes at approximately 1,500 individual animals, more resources are need to monitor their success.
For just $10 you can fund a microchip that will provide an island fox with lifelong identification. Use the PayPal button in the upper right corner to Donate Now.
Be part of the most successful recovery of an endangered species!
