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SWILD, for INFOX in the Integrated Fox Project
Claudia Kistler, Sandra Gloor, Therese Hotz, Daniel Hegglin, Fabio Bontadina
Editing: Kathi Märki, Britta Tschanz
Translation in English : Helen Landolt, Liestal


Illustrations
Foxes (lino cuts): 6th class 1997/98, Friesenberg School, Zurich, supervised by Ernst Maichle and Monika Spinnler, 1st prize in the drawing competition “Foxes in Town” (“Füchse in der Stadt”), 1997.
Booklet cover (foxes): Regular Heer, Zürich
Illustration for FAQ 11, 19: Sandra Gloor, SWILD

Web Design and Programming
Lilo Meier, Zurich, www.lilolab.ch

History
November 2012: Addendum to online "Guide to Urban Foxes" with information on distemper and mange
June 2011: Online guide in English, French, Italian.
20. Feb. 2009: Online guide in german, www.fuchsratgeber.ch and www.stadtfüchse.ch
2000: Guide published as broschure for several Swiss cantons
1999: Guide published as broschure for the City of Zurich
1995: Short version of the guide for the City of Zurich

Integrated Fox Project
With the rise in urban foxes on the European continent in 1990s various institutes in Switzerland decided to collaborate in an interdisciplinary research project, the Integrated Fox Project IFP. Through close interdisciplinary collabor-ation IFP aimed to find answers to basic questions or issues in applied contexts in research on urban foxes. The Integrated Fox Project is coordinated by the SWILD team and encompasses collaboration on specific project issues with the following institutes:
Grün Stadt Zürich (Zurich Municipal Parks and Gardens)
Institute of Parasitology of the University of Zurich
Swiss Rabies Centre, University of Bern
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Zoological Institute of the University of Zurich
Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich

Communication on urban foxes: INFOX
For its INFOX communication module the Integrated Fox Project was awarded the Prix Media (Media Prize) by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (now SCNAT) and won the Henry Ford European Conservation Award Switzerland.

Guide
The guide, “Foxes in our towns – Living with a wild animal”, first appeared in print in 1999. In later years it was published as a brochure in collaboration with the following municipalities and cantons: City of Zurich and cantons BE, GE, JU, SH, VD, VS, ZH.

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Fox Management in Urban Areas
In the project sector “Fox Management in Urban Areas” an online version of the guide was sponsored by the following institutes:
Zurich Municipal Parks and Gardens (Grün Stadt Zürich)
Fisheries and Hunting Office of Canton Zurich
Federal Office for the Environment

Fox Management in Urban Areas, advisory board
Grün Stadt Zürich (Christian Stauffer, Wildhüter Bruno Zweifel)
Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Zürcher Tierschutz (Bernhard Trachsel, Sandra Gloor)
Schweizer Tierschutz (Peter Schlup)
Fischerei- und Jagdverwaltung des Kantons Zürich (Urs Philipp, Jürg Zinggeler)
Jagd und Wildtiere, Kanton Bern (Wildhüter Daniel Trachsel)
JagdZürich (Präsident Martin Möhr)
SWILD (Daniel Hegglin, Kuno von Wattenwyl, Sandra Gloor, Fabio Bontadina)

Copyright
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