Endangered Fox Deserves Habitat Protection, Conservationists Say

The US Fish and Wildlife Service should designate a critical habitat for the Sierra Nevada Red Fox under the Endangered Species Act, two conservation groups told a federal court.

The agency’s decision not to, despite the fox’s endangered listing, “deprived this critically imperiled population of important habitat protections,” Defenders of Wildlife said in its complaint filed Monday with the US District Court for the Eastern District of California.

The Center for Biological Diversity also filed a suit in December in the same court over the same species of fox.

The population is estimated to be as low as 18 to ...