Twelve years after being put on the endangered species list, three subspecies of Channel Island fox are no longer considered to be on the verge of extinction, in what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is calling the fastest recovery of a mammal in the 43-year history of the Endangered Species Act. A fourth subspecies that had been listed as endangered has been upgraded to threatened.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/08/11/63443/the-channel-islands-fox-will-be-removed-from-endan/

Coyote attacks in Southern California appear to be on the rise.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/08/11/63515/coyote-attacks-are-increasing-in-southern-californ/