The goal was to capture two males and two females, since a captive breeding program for the animals is being contemplated.
In 2003, the director of research at Chiquita told a British journalist, "We supported a breeding program for forty years, but it wasn't able to develop an alternative to Cavendish.
The station is also home to a captive breeding program for the critically endangered ploughshare tortoise (Astrochelys yniphora), the rarest tortoise in the world, with less than 500 remaining in the wild.
Howard Phipps, Jr., the president of the society, gave his report for the year and talked about New York zoos and a breeding program for endangered species run in St .CatherineOs Island, Georgia.
The 55-pound cub, named Leo, was handed over yesterday to the World Conservation Union to become part of its captive breeding program for snow leopards at the Bronx Zoo and is scheduled to board a flight for New York today.
More Like the Wild Few big cats have lived as closely with humans as cheetahs, which are thought to have been kept as pets by royalty as far back as 3000 B.C. Yet researchers are still trying to master the dynamics of their mating, said Adrienne Crosier, director of the cheetah breeding program for the Smithsonian's National Zoo.
NEW ORLEANS — The Audubon Nature Institute and San Diego Zoo Global were expected on Tuesday to announce the development of a breeding program for rare and endangered species on 1,000 acres south of this city, bringing herds of antelope, okapi and Masai giraffe to graze on the banks of the Mississippi River.
Her work -- which included setting up a cooperative breeding program for tamarins among zoos worldwide and making minute observations of decades of pandas' social, sexual and gastronomic lives -- helped expand the function of the modern zoo from mere exhibition to concerted, scientifically informed conservation.
The foundation has a captive breeding program for mangrove finches that has recently produced offspring.
Thus the conservation breeding program for this species faces a looming crisis.
Therefore, it is recommended that a breeding program for the Zhejiang population be established.
