Life at Norway’s remote arctic fox breeding station – in pictures

As part of the state-sponsored programme to restore arctic fox populations, Norway has been feeding the animals for nearly 20 years, helping boost numbers from as few as 40 in Norway, Finland, and Sweden, to about 550 across Scandinavia today. Without these conservation measures, the arctic fox would surely have become extinct in Norway,' said Bjorn Rangbru, a senior adviser on threatened species with the country's environment agency