Swift Fox Reintroduction
| Cochrane Ecological Institute's Swift Fox Reintroduction
programs began in 1972 under the direction of Beryl and Miles Smeeton. Since that time
0ver 800 Swift fox were reintroduced to the Canadian Prairie. This has resulted in the
Species being downlisted by the Canadian Government from Extirpated to Endangered. In 1998 the CEI was invited by the Blackfeet Tribal Fish and Wildlife Department, Browning, Montana to join in a partnership to start the first swift fox re-introduction in the USA on the Blackfeet Tribal Lands. Defenders of Wildlife also became partners in this project and the first swift foxes were released on Blackfeet land in the fall of 1998. This swift fox reintroduction program has provided unique opportunities for interested volunteers, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students. We could not undertake any of the projects we do without the consistant financial support of many concerned individuals as well as charitable foundations such as the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal of Canada, Southworth Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife, International Wildlife Coalition, World Society for the Protection of Animals, Shared Earth Foundation and others. |