Sentences with phrase «captive breeding efforts»

However successful captive breeding efforts saved the toad from total oblivion.

And the poisoning of vultures in Asia that threatened to wipe out the three scavenging bird species of the Indian subcontinent has been checked through a combination of replacement drugs in livestock and captive breeding efforts, says ornithologist Nancy Clum of WCS.

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The ability of the species to breed in captivity, based on information gathered from zoo breeding records and captive breeding programmes, was also of interest because easy - to - breed species would be of lower priority when determining where to focus antitrading efforts.

Efforts to reintroduce the bee have been thwarted by failures in captive breeding and by «bee jet lag» — the inability of long - haul bees to adapt to the sudden hemisphere shift.

This may provide one clue as to why efforts to reintroduce red - crowned cranes from captive breeding programs have been largely unsuccessful.

Herculean conservation efforts — carving out nature reserves, establishing captive breeding programs, pumping water into swamps in dry years — have done little to shore up the tortoise's future in the wild, which is why Mitchell and her colleagues have turned to assisted colonization.

Pressure on those wild populations has since dropped, thanks to efforts to increase captive clownfish breeding.

Vidal and CIRVA's scientists also feared that discussion of captive breeding would undermine efforts to extend a temporary ban on gillnetting in the vaquita's range which the government imposed in 2015.

Captive - bred axolotls are frequently used in biological research, both to learn from the animal's remarkable ability to regenerate body parts and to help inform conservation efforts.

In the cover story of this month's BioScience journal, leading tiger experts warn that if tigers are to survive, governments must stop all trade in tiger products from wild and captive - bred sources, as well as ramp up efforts...