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Captive breeding
The propagation or preservation of animals outside their natural habitat, involving control by humans of the animals chosen to constitute a population and of mating choices within that population. (source: WCMC) Toledo Blade,..."It may be the first captive breeding ever," says Tim Herman, the herpetology keeper who watches over the salamanders. But that's not anything he can say International bid to save Devils - 22 Oct 2007 BBC News,Newborn Devils are the size of a grain of rice, and the ones born in Queensland were the first babies to be produced under the captive breeding programme. Condor Protection Bill Prepares to Fly - 22 Oct 2007 Daily Nexus,Of those, 70 are wild condors while the remaining birds are involved in captive breeding recovery efforts. Several organizations favored Nava’s legislation, China's caged bears in long battle for freedom - 22 Oct 2007 ABC Online,..."Captive breeding is regarded as making an indirect contribution to [the bears'] status by some experts," he said. Wildlife policy expert Peter Li says the Captive breeding to preserve species - Oct 13, 2007 The Statesman,Two categories of zoos have been identified for the captive breeding programme. The "coordinating" zoo will be breeding the animal but off display. Captive breeding 'weakens' beasts - Oct 4, 2007 BBC News,Writing in the journal Science, they say the use of captive breeding needs careful re-consideration. For some animals, such as amphibians, captive breeding Downside to Breeding Fish in Captivity Shows Up Early - Oct 8, 2007 New York Times,While the goal of most of these captive breeding efforts is to produce fish for harvesting, in recent years more programs have been developed with the idea Does Captive Breeding of Endangered Species Work? - Oct 8, 2007 Plenty Magazine,News about new captive-breeding programs crosses my desk almost every day. The goal of each program is similar: take an endangered species out of the wild, Mysore Zoo gets female giraffe for captive breeding - Oct 9, 2007 NewKerala.com,...two-year-old female giraffe from Lucknow zoo, the Mysore Zoo authorities' long drawn out search for one to continue captive breeding has been fulfilled. Can't rely on captive breeding to save species - Oct 2, 2007 Straight Goods,It doesn't help that, while captive breeding is being conducted, the natural habitat of the captive species continues to be destroyed, or otherwise made Genetic Effects of Captive Breeding Cause a Rapid, Cumulative ... - Oct 4, 2007 Science Magazine (subscription)Captive breeding is used to supplement populations of many species that are declining in the wild. The suitability of and long-term species survival from Derrick Jensen: Captive breeding of owls "obscene" - Sep 24, 2007 Infoshop News..."I'm not unalterably opposed to every captive breeding program," Jensen explained by phone from Northern California. "That said, it is obscene to take Live Nude Animals - Oct 17, 2007 Only Magazine,ONLY: What do you think about BC’s new spotted owl captive breeding program? Jensen: My position on captive breeding, as I say in the book, Lots of Spots at Orana - Oct 18, 2007 fourcorners.co.nz,The international captive breeding programme is crucial to ensure the future survival of Cheetah, classified by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable Zoo has a lot to howl about - Oct 11, 2007 TheNewsTribune.com (subscription),At the time, Point Defiance volunteered its breeding facilities simply because it had the space and wanted to help, said captive breeding program Krist: The last of the captives - Oct 11, 2007 Ventura County Star,They are the last crop of kits produced by a captive-breeding program that helped save the species from extinction, and for the most part they do not seem Cattle owner finds passion to protect rare croc - Sep 25, 2007 ABC Online,There are calls in the Northern Territory to establish a captive breeding program for a rare miniature crocodile. Bullo River Station 500 kilometres Safeguarding a species - Sep 28, 2007 Sacramento Bee,Captive-breeding programs have their critics. Intervention creates a weaker species, they claim, which often faces the same old threats when returned to the Parrots flown interstate in breeding bid - Oct 9, 2007 NEWS.com.au,MORE than 40 orange-bellied parrots have been flown from Victoria to Tasmania's west in a bid to revive the endangered species. The captive-bred parrots Celebrating NC’s red wolves - Oct 18, 2007 FayObserver.com,The US Fish and Wildlife Service captured the last 17 genetically pure individuals for captive breeding, and the red wolf was declared extinct in the wild The Week's Best Late-Night Laughs - Sep 23, 2007 Edmonton Sun,Earlier today, the governor of California was placed in a captive breeding program. Critics and insiders are saying that bin Laden's new video is only a sad Two More Hawaiian Birds on Brink of Extinction - Oct 15, 2007 Environment News Service..."The strongest available measures such as captive-breeding, fencing out and removal of invasive species, and listing under the Endangered Species Act, Critically Endangered Pygmy Hog Upgraded as a Unique Evolutionary Line - Oct 18, 2007 Wildlife Extra,...(India) and Durham (UK) have analysed mitochondrial DNA in blood samples taken from the founders of Durrell’s captive breeding programme in Assam, Blackpool chosen for Australian first - Oct 17, 2007 Blackpool Gazette,..."Longer term it means that we will have a captive breeding pool for possible reintroductions to the wild in the event of species disappearing from the seas. Endangered foxes released on island off Santa Barbara - Oct 9, 2007 Los Angeles Times,..."This is the final stage of the captive breeding program," Coonan said. "The island foxes themselves are going to recover the population and they will only A successful program to reintroduce foxes to the wild - Oct 12, 2007 Scripps News,Nine other endangered island foxes would join it before the end of the day, marking the end of captive breeding on Santa Cruz and the start of what Addax an important addition to zoo and to the species' existence - Sep 28, 2007 Garden City Telegram,Zoos oversee the captive breeding efforts for addax conservation, and also work internationally to raise awareness and protect the critical habitat needed Mystery lesion makes rescue bid devilishly tricky - Oct 11, 2007 The Age,With over half of Tasmania's devils wiped out and up to 90 per cent gone in the north-east where the cancer first emerged, the captive-breeding program was Among tools for zookeepers: prudent use of contraception - Sep 29, 2007 Billings Gazette,..."These animals wouldn't exist if zoos hadn't done captive breeding to make them available again." Contraception is an important tool used by breeding Deadly Tasmanian Devil cancer spreads - Oct 18, 2007 The Age,..."We already have a captive breeding program but just to keep 10 devils in captivity for a year costs $100000." The cancer, which forms massive facial Disease killing Australia's Tasmanian devil spreads to key refuge - Oct 18, 2007 AFPA Save the Devil programme has been started with a captive breeding programme, but McCallum said Friday it was hopelessly under-funded, calling for 10 The lucky devils: Safe haven for an island icon - Oct 2, 2007 Independent,The size of a grain of rice at birth, they were the first babies produced under the captive breeding programme. While the births were hailed as a rare Lead poisoning imperils condors - Oct 13, 2007 Arizona Republic,Captive breeding programs have brought their numbers to more than 300 in California, Arizona and Baja California. There are now 59 in Arizona, Offspring of hatchery trout are fishy flops: study - Oct 4, 2007 Reuters UK,By Will Dunham In a study published on Thursday with great implications for captive breeding programs, US researchers found that after being set free, Gov. ignores gun lobby, and condors get a lift - Oct 17, 2007 Los Angeles Times,After they had dwindled to 22 in the mid-'80s, public and private groups began a $40-million restoration effort, including captive breeding and chick Melbourne in worldwide fight to save the tiger - Sep 30, 2007 The Age,Melbourne Zoo's five Sumatran tigers, including its three cubs — now almost a year old — are a family crucial to an international captive breeding program Injured tiger cub dies at Brookfield Zoo - Oct 8, 2007 Chicago Tribune,Smith said experts who run captive breeding programs for Amurs said the female cub's shortened tail should not affect her. There are 438 Amur tigers living State govt issues grant for conservation of ghariyals - Oct 7, 2007 Lucknow Newsline,The state Forest department has also asked the Centre for a Rs 1.45-crore grant for the upgrade of the rehabilitation center, famous for captive breeding. A porcupine eating a palm oil fruit in its pen. — Pictures by ... - Oct 6, 2007 New Straits Times,Captive breeding and game farming are being seen as a way to sustain wildlife with high economic potential outside their habitat for future release into the Life's simple pleasures, far from Iraq war - Oct 16, 2007 Los Angeles Times,The 4-year-old Tachi, the product of a captive breeding program, has bonded too much with humans to be released into the wild, so conservancy workers have Brookfield tiger cubs maimed in attack - Oct 3, 2007 Chicago Tribune,Smith said experts who run captive breeding programs for the Amur species survival program assured Brookfield officials that the injured cubs will live long South China Tiger spotted - Oct 15, 2007 Nature.com (subscription),Nearly all the remaining tigers of this species are in captive breeding facilities and experts put the number of wild individuals at around 25 at most (BBC) Number of gharials sinking fast: Report - Oct 2, 2007 Newindpress,To cut a long story short, the Red List report must ring in warning bell for the State whose successful captive breeding programme has gone nowhere. Microchips will track Nandankanan animals - Oct 11, 2007 Newindpress,It is for the first time that an animal park in India will have a captive breeding programme for pangolines. While microchips would be extremely useful for Cranes ready to take flight - Oct 10, 2007 The Capital Times,The International Crane Foundation in Baraboo has a captive breeding center with 35 whooping cranes. One pair of whooping cranes is on display for visitors Southwest Wolves Face Extinction in the Wild - Oct 18, 2007 NewsBlaze,...victories of the 20th Century, these rare wolves were reintroduced to New Mexico and Arizona in 1998, thanks to a captive breeding and recovery program. Wolves have their week in NM - Oct 18, 2007 Cibola County Beacon,In 1976, the Mexican gray wolf was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), and a captive breeding and recovery program was Zookeepers Shoot Dead Escaped Chimpanzee - Sep 29, 2007 Daily GreenThe ungoing debate about captive breeding programs also continues. Some point out that although zoos have clearly had some success in breeding critically Shelly? Dash? Name the turtles - Oct 18, 2007 TheNewsTribune.com (subscription),Because of his origin, he cannot be used in the captive breeding programs nor released into the wild. He is omnivorous. Enter a name: Submit your entry to Endangered fish causes a stir with farmers - Oct 17, 2007 ABC Regional Online,A captive breeding program will run in tandem with this project, which Jane hopes will allow more fish to be returned to habitats around Australia in the Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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