Opinion: If you conserve it, extinct species can come back

A den of swift foxes, a species once extirpated (locally extinct) in Canada, was recently discovered on a Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) conservation site in southeast Alberta.
The discovery of this den is proof that the work that conservation organizations like NCC is doing to secure and steward privately owned land is helping species at risk — in this case, providing a home for a rare and reintroduced species.
The return of swift foxes to Canada is one of the most successful species