South Florida water managers approved a breeding program for an endangered Everglades sparrow that for decades has fluttered at the center of the debate over how to move water into parched marshes to ...

The death of another elephant calf at Zurich Zoo has renewed criticism of captive elephant breeding programmes. Animal ...

Wide-eyed and bewildered, a tiny, house cat-sized island fox was reluctant to flee from its cage for the first time into the wilds of windswept Santa Rosa Island. The captive-bred predator remained ...

Genetic management in captive breeding programmes aims to conserve or restore genetic diversity while minimising the risks of inbreeding and adaptation to captivity. Programmes routinely begin with a ...

Species extinctions, endangerment and captive breeding / C.D. Magin [and others] -- Effective use of flagship species for conservation of biodiversity: the example of lion tamarins in Brazil / J.M.

Project Great Indian Bustard welcomed three more chicks to its captive breeding programme. The conservation effort is focused ...

Australia’s wildlife was hit hard by the 2019-20 Black Summer megafires. Amongst the casualties were our iconic tree-dwelling koalas, with an estimated 5000 dead in New South Wales alone. They are now ...

Time is running out for the great Indian bustard. In the wild, fewer than 150 of these critically endangered ostrich-like birds survive, mostly in India’s Rajasthan state. But a captive-breeding ...

Programs have been put in place to reduce the extinction risk of some of Australia’s most endangered species. Captive breeding is emerging as a controversial but crucial stopgap for a growing number ...

In October, more than two years after the last caribou in the Maligne Valley of Jasper National Park died or disappeared, Parks Canada announced a tentative plan for a caribou captive breeding program ...

Australia's wildlife was hit hard by the 2019-20 Black Summer megafires. To tackle both issues, our new modelling study backs the approach of biobanking (freezing koala sperm) and tailored assisted ...