Captive breeding, also known as captive propagation, is the process of keeping plants or animals in controlled environments, such as wildlife reserves...

Louisiana (where specimens were trapped from the last wild population for captive breeding), which likely accounts for the discrepancy in their dietary habits...

endangered species are the target of extensive conservation efforts such as captive breeding and habitat restoration. Human activity is a significant cause in causing...

2003. Yadanabon Zoological Gardens is also currently engaged in a captive-breeding program to attempt to increase the population of this tortoise. Starting...

but they did not metamorphose into frogs. The first fully successful captive breeding was relatively recent: In 2010 it was first bred at Huachipa Zoo in...

offspring Breeding program, a planned breeding of animals or plants Breeding season, the period during each year when a species reproduces Captive breeding, raising...

A golden tiger, sometimes called a golden tabby tiger, is a Bengal tiger with a colour variation caused by a recessive gene. Like white tigers and black...

helpful in captive breeding efforts. Juveniles rely on their parents for 8 months and will stay with the family group until the next breeding season. The...

survive in the wild on Montserrat and its survival now relies on a captive breeding project involving several zoos. The initial decline was linked to hunting...

captive breeding, primarily at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, North Carolina. This center has been influential in keeping, researching and breeding...

cross-breeding different subspecies and thus reducing their conservation value. Captive breeding of lions was halted to eliminate individuals of unknown origin and...

releasing captive bred individuals. The Spanish National Commission for the Protection of Nature endorsed the Iberian Lynx Ex Situ Conservation Breeding Program...

[citation needed] The WildNZ Trust has a tuatara breeding enclosure at Ruawai. One notable captive breeding success story took place in January 2009, when...

world. In order to save the frog from extinction, a self-sustaining captive breeding program was commenced, with Zoos Victoria taking the lead. When the...

Conservation of Nature (IUCN), though the species persists in ex situ, captive breeding populations. The Kihansi spray toad is a small, sexually dimorphic...

hunting ability, high trainability, versatility, and availability via captive breeding. It is effective on most game bird species, from small to large. It...

abroad and then imported. Captive breeding was initiated. The book mentions a captive-bred goshawk and a brood of captive-bred red-tailed hawks. It describes...

additionally, many interesting colour "morphs" exist today, thanks to selective breeding by hobbyists and professionals. Somewhat like chameleons, bearded dragons...

started for the protection and breeding of Indian crocodile species. The Crocodile Bank later developed a captive breeding program for freshwater turtles...

Lake Matsaborimena near Bemanevika in Madagascar in 2006. By 2017, a captive breeding program had produced a population of around 90 individuals. The birds...

period. The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife has implemented captive breeding programmes under the support and guidance of Linda Broome and her colleagues...

last sighting was in 2016. The species is now maintained through a captive breeding program at several conservation organizations under the aegis of the...

14 birds as of early February 2017, are being bred in a captive breeding program. The captive population consists of around 300 birds. Ex situ conservation...

Nocturnal House as ambassadors for the species. Healesville Sanctuary's captive breeding program for Leadbeater's possums recommenced in May 2012 and now comprises...

capture in the wild or captive breeding. United Nations studies show that more than 90% of freshwater aquarium fish are captive–bred, while virtually all...

Trichonephila inaurata, synonym Nephila inaurata, commonly known as the red-legged golden orb-weaver spider or red-legged nephila,[citation needed] is...

free-born orcas, since the captive-born orcas have known no other world and may not be able to adapt to life in the wild. Captive breeding also promises to reduce...

Fund administration and barns for the captive breeding program. The organization's first climate-controlled breeding barn (the Gerald D. and Kathryn Swim...

ecosystem of lower Vietnam. Conservation efforts are concentrated on breeding captive turtles in China and searching for live specimens in the wild. An agreement...

and Nepal. The leopard gecko is a popular pet, and due to extensive captive breeding it is sometimes referred to as the first domesticated species of lizard...