Sentences with phrase «insurance against extinction»
Not exact matches
Instead, the plan is to potentially house several individuals as an insurance policy against extinction until Mexico implements more stringent measures to protect the animal from dying in nets.
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Most importantly, a breeding population of Lord Howe Island stick insects has been established at the Melbourne Zoo thus providing insurance against a second extinction event.
When island fox populations on the northern islands plummeted to the edge of extinction in 1999, Channel Islands National Park and the Nature Conservancy established captive breeding facilities on San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands «as insurance against the loss of foxes from golden eagle predation.»