Sentence examples for conservation breeding from inspiring English sources
The studbook for the Poitevin is based in Niort, and the breed is the subject of a conservation breeding plan, the goal of which is to eventually revive the production of Poitou mules.
Thus the conservation breeding program for this species faces a looming crisis.
When researchers brought him to the museum's conservation breeding center, they expected to find another frog he could mate with and save the species from extinction.
A major international effort to stop it disappearing is centred on a conservation breeding programme at the headquarters of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.
But you need the right habitat with enough food, and reintroducing large animals that endanger people is politically delicate, so conservation breeding programmes not only act as a backup (if wild tigers go extinct they can be replaced by zoo-bred tigers) but also generate support, directly and indirectly, for wild programmes.
While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
He also founded the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation in Qatar, a private centre for conservation and breeding endangered species, which focuses on rare bird species, particularly the Spix's Macaw.
It is the first leg of his journey to the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat, where he will be part of the international polar bear conservation and breeding program.
There are fewer than 50 aye-ayes in captivity in the entire world, Dye said, calling the loss of four animals a "big blow" to the lemur center's conservation and breeding programs.
The objective of this study is to obtain the first functional genomic resource and candidate molecular markers for future conservation and breeding research.
