Sentence examples for began captive from inspiring English sources

In 1970, when Dr. Cade began captive breeding of falcons in a huge barn Cornell built for the purpose, there were no wild pairs of breeding peregrines east of the Rockies and a pathetic few with failing nests to the west.

Trouble arose when guards began molesting captive Christian women at their first camp at Bantwal, although able-bodied captives were able to resist the guards.

Durrell initially received two pairs of choughs from Paradise Park in Cornwall and began a captive breeding programme.

The International Crane Foundation, a conservation organisation located in Baraboo, Wisconsin, began a captive breeding programme with three pairs of wild brolga captured in Australia in 1972.

The US developed its own definition of torture and began transporting captives to ghost prisons and a little-known military base in Cuba.

Things turned around for eagles in New York when DDT was banned and the state Department of Environmental Conservation began releasing captive-raised bald eagles in the late 1970's.

Despite the species' persistent lack of reproductive success, in the early 1980s, some conservation organizations began a captive-breeding program for the Sumatran rhinoceros.

Isis has reportedly begun beheading captives after taking over the majority of a large Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.

Working with environmental groups in China, Dr. Thorbjarnarson and his colleagues have begun reintroducing captive-bred alligators back into several choice sites.

In the early 1840s he began raiding, taking captives as slaves to the Portuguese at Delagoa Bay.

Inayatullah is the eighth prisoner to have died at the detention center since the United States began sending foreign captives with suspected links to Al Qaeda or the Taliban to the American naval base in Guantánamo Bay in January 2002.