Sentence examples for breeding projects from inspiring English sources
A California lawmaker is hoping to shut down SeaWorld's controversial whale breeding projects for good.
It is primarily a conservation body, running captive breeding projects for rare and endangered species, which it reintroduces to the wild.
The news comes as a new bill in California would shut down SeaWorld's killer whale breeding projects and others like it if passed.
But zoos themselves do not have much control over habitat loss, and their breeding projects may help insure that there will be a supply of endangered animals to release if habitat-restoration groups are successful.
The recovery programme has been working with captive breeding projects in four zoos and in-situ conservation since the disease hit and next steps include plans for semi-wild enclosures where they can test the ability of captive-bred frogs to fight the disease in carefully controlled conditions.
Recently, several Japanese rice breeding projects have attempted to develop cultivars with such properties to support industrial uses.
After Cornell's early successes, in 1981 another captive breeding project got under way, at the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota.
Monsanto, which has controversially promoted genetically modified crops and taken small farmers to court to protect its seed patents, stated that it will release data from a multi-year, multi-site corn breeding project into the public sphere, to enhance efforts at forecasting crop production under changing water and climate conditions.
China's "super" rice breeding project has developed many F1 hybrid varieties using a combination of the ideotype approach and intersubspecific heterosis.
In early 2011, the Virgin Islands dwarf sphaero gained international attention when Sir Richard Branson announced plans to introduce lemurs endangered primates from Madagascar to Moskito Island as part of a captive breeding project for conservation purposes.
Animals that were selected as founders for the captive breeding project had been caught in the wild and tested for the absence of pathogens prior to introduction into the captive breeding program.
