/ Foxes Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en /climate/news/saving-our-wild-creatures As the Endangered Species Act celebrates 50 years, a UC feature story highlights ºÙºÙÊÓƵ efforts to protect animals like Channel Island foxes and white abalone. April 19, 2023 - 1:16pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/saving-our-wild-creatures /news/scientists-find-widespread-ear-tumors-%E2%80%94-and-promising-solution-%E2%80%94-endangered-catalina-island <p>Until recently, endangered foxes on California’s Catalina Island were suffering from one of the highest prevalences of tumors ever documented in a wildlife population, ºÙºÙÊÓƵ scientists have found. But treatment of ear mites appears to be helping the wild animals recover.</p> <p>Roughly half of adult foxes examined between 2001 and 2008 had tumors in their ears, with about two-thirds of those malignant, according to a ºÙºÙÊÓƵ study published this month in the journal PLOS ONE.</p> December 07, 2015 - 11:10am IET WebDev /news/scientists-find-widespread-ear-tumors-%E2%80%94-and-promising-solution-%E2%80%94-endangered-catalina-island