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Endangered Amargosa Voles Need More Than a Rainy Day

Katherine E Kerlin — June 05, 2017 - 1:57pm

Despite the welcome rains in California this year, the fate of endangered Amargosa voles that depend on rare marshes in the Mojave Desert remains dire, with only about 500 animals remaining in the wild and most of their habitat degraded or dying. Yet techniques to modify vole habitat could create sustainable patches for them to live.

Captive-bred Amargosa voles preparing to head back to the wild

IET WebDev — April 10, 2015 - 10:45am

Less than a year after the ��С�� School of Veterinary Medicine began a captive breeding program, more than two dozen Amargosa voles are preparing to rejoin their cousins in the wild. They are the first captive-bred group to be released and offer hope of rebuilding the population of one of the most endangered mammals in North America.

Loss of habitat, drought and climate change brought this subspecies of the California vole to near extinction, leaving only a few hundred clinging to existence in rare marshes of the Mojave Desert.

Scientists work to save endangered desert mammal

IET WebDev — October 23, 2014 - 9:04am

Amargosa voles, small rodents that inhabit rare marshes of the Mojave Desert, have faced dire circumstances in recent years. Loss of habitat, extreme drought and climate change brought this subspecies of the California vole to near extinction, leaving only a few hundred clinging to existence. It is now one of the most critically endangered mammals in North America. But the vole's luck may be changing with the birth of the first pups from a new captive breeding program at the ��С�� School of Veterinary Medicine.

Endangered White Abalone Find Matchmaker in ��С�� Breeding Program

IET WebDev — July 24, 2013 - 1:00pm

In research that incorporates food, sex and danger, scientists at the ��С��, Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory recently achieved the first successful captive spawning of the endangered white abalone in nearly a decade. The work may be the white abalone’s last chance at avoiding extinction.

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Endangered Amargosa Voles Need More Than a Rainy Day

Captive-bred Amargosa voles preparing to head back to the wild

Scientists work to save endangered desert mammal

Endangered White Abalone Find Matchmaker in ��С��������������� Breeding Program

Endangered White Abalone Find Matchmaker in ��С�� Breeding Program