The Norwegian tv (NRK) filmed scientists from Th Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) who work on a breeding program for arctic foxes which is an endangered species in Norway and Sweden. The result was broadcasted in October 2009 within the program Ut i naturen. There you can see the foxes at the breeding station in Sætrefjell station, where they kept 5 fox pairs in huge fences and monitor the inner site of their dens by a screen, even on  internet.
When the pups grew adult, they were radio-collared, tagged and released up in the mountains.
The film can be seen here note it is in Norwegian but the foxes "speak" a universal language 

The Arctic Fox Centre wishes you all a happy new year and welcome to our exhibition and guided tours next summer. 
We are grateful for all the support and collaboration last year, both financially and physically - special thanks to the volunteers in the field research, photographers and film makers.
The new year is full of exciting projects, building up the exhibition, meeting the foxes and opening the house for everyone on the 13th of June !!

The Arctic Fox Centre sends you all the best wishes for Merry Christmas
and a happy new year

We are grateful for the support and goodwill during this year and
hope to see you all at our exhibition in Sudavik, and guided fox tours, next summer

The Arctic Fox Centre and Westfjords Natural History Institute have signed a contract on the project Westfjords Botanic Gardens. The Natural History Institute has already established a botanic garden in Bolungarvik of Westfjords but now the plan is to disperse the gardens in a wider context and the next step is to develop a botanic garden with plants of Westfjords around the beautiful old house where The Arctic Fox Centre is located in Sudavik. 
We hope that the garden with the collection of plants from Westfjords will become a delight attraction for people who wish to increase their knowledge on the Icelandic flora and fauna by visiting the Arctic Fox Centre in Sudavik.

The Westfjords Cultural Committee fund granted The Arctic Fox Center, as well as 36 other cultural projects in Westfjords, yesterday, the 4th of Desember. We received 600 thousand IKR for the exhibition of the historical and traditional foxhunting and foxhunters in Iceland. This support is wery important for us while building up the exhibition in the old and historical house Eyrardalur in Sudavik. We are grateful to the Cultural Committee to choose to support our project and make us better capable of developing the exhibition in accordance to our plans.

The Arctic Fox Center gratefully received a support from The National Heritage Fund yesterday. We received 600.000 IKR for the fox hunting part of the exhibition that we will open in Eyrardalur, Sudavik next summer. What could be more National Heritage than the story of the battle between the man and the only native four-legged carnivore in Iceland?

We visited the future house of the Arctic Fox Center today (1. December). There has been some activity lately and we met Magnus, the chief of the rebuilding project and Bjarni, who takes care of the electrical installation. There were also Friðfinnur, who takes care of the heat system, with his colleagues. 
The house is slowly developing into the state were we can take over and start constructing the exhibition. Besides that, we will fit up a small and cosy café on the first floor, decorated by old furniture and crockery to fit the style of this old and historical house. On the top floor (cock loft) we will house an excellent theater monologue and other special events.
We took some photos on the visit, as you see the house is still far from ready but we are optimistic that they will make it ready for us before soon...

The Arctic fox Centre is now undertaking a strategic planning process, where board members engage in the work of identifying the core elements of the business, its mission and objectives, as well as conducting a SWOT analysis, where strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are identified. This work is being led by the West fjords Business Development Company (atvest).

We believe that this is important for us at this point since the plan we are currently using was made in September 2007. So far, the centre has been on the planning stage. Now, the first summer of the exhibition is ahead and thus it is important for us to reconsider and strengthen our strategies.

Kjartan Sigurdsson, a photographer and tourist guide, sent us photos of arctic fox pups at a den in the highlands of Iceland. 
The pups are all of the white color morph, indicating that the parents were probably also white (but we can never be sure since the white is recessive and the blue can carry white genes).
It is amazing how tame these pups were, and people were approaching them quite close to the den for photographing. There were no news of the parents but most likely the mother was not far away, watching and waiting for the people to leave so she could nurse the pups. More photos can be seen here on our web gallery, just click on "Photos" here on the left.
Kjartans webpage is www.photo.is

The Arctic Fox Centre is participating to the Icelandic Biological Conference 2009 - Friday 6th and Saturday 7th of November.
Our contribution is a poster with the results of the first summer of our study, regarding tourist effects on the arctic foxes in Hornstrandir Nature Reserve. This study was conducted in collaboration with University of Iceland, Research Centre of The Westfjords. We have presented these results before, on an Arctic Fox Conference, held in Sweden in February 2009.

This conference is the largest held from the beginning and the majority of all biologists of Iceland are participating more or less. We have a great variety of fields and lots of interesting seminars in three buildings of the University Campus.
You can find more information on the conference web page