Kashmir's endangered red deer faces extinction without a captive breeding programme that will start this summer in the scenic Himalayan region, Indian wildlife officials said Friday.
... room as the Mallorcan midwife toads, was responsible for spreading the infection to them.
The captive breeding and reintroduction program for the Mallorcan midwife toad has been highly successful ...
... of fish are on the brink of disappearing forever. To attempt to mitigate the dire situation, captive breeding, the controlled breeding of organisms in protected environments, is regularly initiated.
... reached Majorca through a reintroduction programme for threatened amphibians bred in captivity in England, and which were 'apparently' healthy. Four populations are currently affected on the island, ...
... -billed vultures
left in the wild, according to the RSPB.
Conservationists say successfully breeding one of the birds in
captivity is a "huge boost" to efforts to prevent it becoming
extinct in the ...
... on infected hosts and cause less damage.
The study also calls into question the wisdom of captive breeding of monarchs for intentional release at events such as weddings. Captive rearing conditions ...
Australian officials say they are having success with a captive breeding program aimed at saving an endangered native bird, the regent honeyeater.
... experts have released 25,000 endangered baby turtles into the sea in the past two months as part of a state-run captivity breeding programme, an environmental official said Friday.
... , as well as five other orders of birds, and is widely considered to be the greatest threat to captive breeding of birds in this family, the researchers said.
The disorder often leads to the birds' ...
... , was discovered in Wyoming. The 18 remaining ferrets were removed from the wild to establish a captive breeding and recovery program in Wyoming. The National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in ...
Captive breeding colonies of a critically endangered vulture, whose numbers in the wild have dwindled from tens of millions to a few thousand, are too small to protect the species from extinction, a ...
... lizards that prevents successful captive populations from being established. One example is the captive breeding programme of the rare Oman dab lizard (Uromastyx thomasi) a joint project between ...
... populations of land iguanas were relocated from one island habitat to another, or were subject to captive breeding and reintroduction programs. Combined with the eradication of invasive species at ...
... leaving us essentially in a fisheries catch-22.
Fraser concludes that not only do more data on the effects of captive breeding on the genetic diversity of fishes need to be collected, but also that ...
... of how long individuals maintain memories of familiar kin and non-kin is important for the design of captive-breeding programs and for the release of endangered species into the wild," she said. The ...
