Preserving arctic foxes in Norway is the mission of this rehabilitation program. A few days ago, 14 of them were released into the wild.
Brut nature went to visit the area in Norway.
Brut nature went to visit the area in Norway.
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00:00No, we are in the breeding center for the arctic foxes of Norway.
00:05That is the one of a kind as far as we know in the world.
00:09We have got a lot of foxes back to the nature we have released, more than 400.
00:30Around 2000, it was only a few individuals left in total in Final Scandia, we are talking
00:48about maybe 50 adult individuals.
01:07Then we go to the next enclosure.
01:22Hard snow, a lot of it.
01:26This is the fox food, it's made for the foxes, so they got the right energy level and things
01:33for to produce fur and for the breeding season and making everything that's important for
01:42the fox life.
01:57As you can see, we have an indoor camera, you have the blue or dark one there and you
02:02have the white one.
02:03And we have also some other web cameras that goes on the outside and as you can see on
02:09the screen, we have a lot of wind and snow following until the foxes have read the forecast
02:18and listen to it and stay inside to keep warm and dry.
02:34I have used some days in the last week to collect the foxes and try to take advantage
02:43until when the weather is like so it's possible because when it's windy like this, it's not
02:49possible to trap them because there's no one out.
03:06Now we are going to see the places where we store them temporarily.
03:09This is normally a fox farm that is used for that for a few days.
03:35We are waiting for the veterinarian to have a check on them and check if everything is
03:40okay and with all the papers and things like that before we start the loading and transport.
04:05It's a two day trip.
04:06We are also setting animals out into nature, so we need to be sure that we are giving them
04:11the best start possible.
04:12So we want to make sure they are healthy and what we want to be sure is that we don't take
04:16anything north and put it out in nature with these guys, any sort of contagious disease.
04:22And they look very good to me and what I am doing now is a double check to be sure that
04:27we have the individuals identified correctly because that's also something that we need
04:32to be very careful with when we cross the border that we have all of our foxes identified
04:39and that the paperwork is in order and they look ready to go in my opinion.
04:45So we are done for tonight.
04:47They have gotten their food and their water for the evening so it is just to let them
04:54sleep and we will go in and finish some more paperwork but otherwise we will be up early
05:00in the morning to load them up so they are ready for their trip.
05:21We are loading the trailer with the foxes in these transport boxes.
05:30The foxes are in the window inside these boxes, one for each.
05:39Just doing a final check to make sure they all look ok.
05:50It's going to be some long days of driving the next days.
05:54We have a lot of kilometres to take.
06:00This is Turovian speaking and we are far northeast in Norway to releasing the foxes
06:18and we have 15 degrees below zero and it's almost perfect winter conditions.
06:30I think the foxes are really happy for getting released from the transport the last days.
06:52Goodbye.
07:00We have been releasing in many mountain areas and we have seen that we have managed to re-establish
07:09populations in Togolfjärl, in Finnsa and in other places we have managed to strengthen
07:19the local populations that were very few in numbers.
07:23So the project has been quite successful so far.