Endangered Amargosa Voles Begin to Repopulate Desert Habitat

Katherine E Kerlin — September 06, 2022 - 2:38pm

�°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis wildlife cameras revealed pups born to endangered Amargosa voles that were reintroduced to a Shoshone marsh. This indicates the voles are beginning to repopulate their native habitat after restoration efforts.

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

IET WebDev — April 10, 2015 - 10:45am

Less than a year after the �°��ϲ��Ļ��Ϣ Davis 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.

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Endangered Amargosa Voles Begin to Repopulate Desert Habitat

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