Editing Fox (section)

===''Pseudalopex fulvipes''===
[[Darwin's fox]] was considered [[critically endangered]] because of their small known population of 250 mature individuals as well as their restricted distribution.<ref name=Jimenez2006>{{cite journal|last1=Jiménez|first1=J. E.|title=Ecology of a coastal population of the critically endangered Darwin's fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) on Chiloé Island, southern Chile|year=2006|journal=Journal of Zoology|volume=271|issue=1|pages=63–77|doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00218.x}}</ref> However, the [[IUCN]] have since downgraded the conservation status from crictically endangered in their 2004 and 2008 assessments to [[endangered]] in the 2016 assessment, following findings of a wider distribution than previously reported.<ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn | author =Silva-Rodríguez, E. | author2 =Farias, A. | author3 =Moreira-Arce, D. | author4 =Cabello, J. | author5 =Hidalgo-Hermoso, E. | author6 =Lucherini, M. | author7 =Jiménez, J. | name-list-style =amp | title =''Lycalopex fulvipes'' | volume =2016 | page =e.T41586A85370871 | year =2016 }}</ref> On the [[Chile]]an mainland, the population is limited to [[Nahuelbuta National Park]] and the surrounding [[Valdivian temperate rain forest|Valdivian rainforest]].<ref name=Jimenez2006/> Similarly on [[Chiloé Island]], their population is limited to the forests that extend from the southernmost to the northwesternmost part of the island.<ref name=Jimenez2006/> Though the Nahuelbuta National Park is protected, 90% of the species live on Chiloé Island.<ref name=iucn41586>{{cite iucn|author= Jiménez, J.E.|author2= Lucherini, M.|author3= Novaro, A.J.|name-list-style= amp |year= 2008|url= https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41586/0|title= ''Pseudalopex fulvipes''|access-date= 30 September 2014}}</ref>

A major issue the species faces is their dwindling, limited habitat due to the cutting and burning of the unprotected forests.<ref name=Jimenez2006/> Because of deforestation, the Darwin's fox habitat is shrinking, allowing for their competitor's ([[South American gray fox|chilla fox]]) preferred habitat of open space, to increase; the Darwin's fox, subsequently, is being outcompeted.<ref name=Yahnke1996>{{cite journal|last1=Yahnke|first1=Christopher J.|last2=Johnson|first2=Warren E.|last3=Geffen|first3=Eli|last4=Smith|first4=Deborah|last5=Hertel|first5=Fritz|last6=Roy|first6=Michael S.|last7=Bonacic|first7=Cristian F.|last8=Fuller|first8=Todd K.|last9=Van Valkenburgh|first9=Blaire|last10=Wayne|first10=Robert K.|year=1996|title=Darwin's Fox: A Distinct Endangered Species in a Vanishing Habitat|journal=Conservation Biology|volume=10|issue=2|pages=366–375|doi=10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10020366.x|bibcode=1996ConBi..10..366Y }}<!--|access-date=30 September 2014--></ref> Another problem they face is their inability to fight off diseases transmitted by the increasing number of pet dogs.<ref name=Jimenez2006/> To conserve these animals, researchers suggest the need for the forests that link the Nahuelbuta National Park to the coast of Chile and in turn Chiloé Island and its forests, to be protected.<ref name=Yahnke1996/> They also suggest that other forests around Chile be examined to determine whether Darwin's foxes have previously existed there or can live there in the future, should the need to reintroduce the species to those areas arise.<ref name=Yahnke1996/> And finally, the researchers advise for the creation of a captive breeding program, in Chile, because of the limited number of mature individuals in the wild.<ref name=Yahnke1996/>