Swift Fox Reintroduction
Once common in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the swift fox vanished from the Canadian prairies in the 1930s. Learn more about this species.
Wildlife Preservation Canada’s involvement with the swift fox began in the mid-1990s, when we supported the conservation breeding program at Alberta’s Cochrane Ecological Institute, which was part of a reintroduction program that also translocated wild foxes from sites in the U.S. Since then, we have supported periodic field surveys to determine how the wild population in Canada is faring. The surveys, which included both camera-trap monitoring and live trapping, were conducted over a wide range in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana.
Moehrenschlager, A. and C. Moehrenschlager. 2006. Population census of reintroduced swift foxes (Vulpes velox) in Canada and northern Montana 2005/2006. Centre for Conservation Research Report No. 1, Calgary Zoo. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 32 pp.
Moehrenschlager, A. and C. Moehrenschlager. 2001. Census of Swift Fox (Vulpes velox) in Canada and Northern Montana: 2000-2001. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Fish and Wildlife Division, Alberta Species at Risk Report No. 24. Edmonton, Alberta. 21 pp.