Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand as climate change and habitat loss disrupt food chains and lead to starvation

Funny that Al-Jazeera is covering this. I briefly worked at a media firm that were hired to promote this project. They made several stop-motion animated short films covering the subject. To be clear, I didn't work directly on this project - my job was basically to make the media firm look good by writing ad copy about their works, including this promotional campaign - but it's still cool to that something I was (in a very minor way) involved in has shown up on Tildes, covered by an Arabic news channel of all things.

This:

(...) others have questioned whether it makes sense to support animals in landscapes that can no longer sustain them.

Seems not to have been a concern at all. From all the information I was given to work with, nobody voiced any concern that keeping these populations "artificially alive" was in any way negative. To be clear, this project has increased the population tenfold, from around 50 to 550 individuals. If nobody had done this, the arctic fox would almost certainly be locally extinct. I guess it's an open question whether a species that would have gone extinct except for human feeding stations is worth preserving in this way.