1. Danielle Hickman

2. Names  Scientific Name: Vulpes lagopus  Common Name: Arctic Fox

3. Where do they live?  Natural Habitat: Tundra

4. Life History Characteristics  Diet: (omnivore) sea birds, fish, other marine life  11inches tall  3 to 20 pounds  Live in burrows  Polar climates  Male and Female mature sexually at 1 year of age.

5. Solitary or Pack?  Solitary

6. Why Endangered?  Overhunting. Why?  Habitat Destruction. Why?  Not endangered worldwide  2 endangered populations: Russia & Fennoscandia (Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Kola Peninsula)

7. Population  Worldwide: several thousand  Russia: around 90 individual foxes  Fennoscandia: around 40 individual foxes

8. Conservation Efforts  Laws put in place to stop hunting  Fur farms

9. Works Cited:  https://worldwildlife.org/species/arctic-fox https://worldwildlife.org/species/arctic-fox  http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/arctic_fox. htm http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/arctic_fox. htm  http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/899/0 http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/899/0

10. Quiz  1) What habitat does the Arctic Fox live in?  2) Solitary or Pack animal?  3) Is overhunting the fox part of why it is endangered?  4) Is the fox endangered worldwide?  5) What kind of housing does the fox have?