Sentences with phrase «species recovery programs»

«What we've done here with the black - footed ferret is an excellent example of how sperm preservation can benefit species recovery programs.»

The most notable is the endangered Proserpine rock - wallaby, found naturally on Gloucester Island and introduced as part of a species recovery program to Hayman Island.

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He oversees conservation and recovery programs for endangered and threatened marine mammal and sea turtle species in New England and the...

With just a few founders to rebuild an entire species, early managers of the black - footed ferret recovery program knew that genetic diversity would be lost.

The study also showed that the hunting program led to the recovery of native species and discouraged the spread of invasive and exotic species, said Lindsay Jenkins.

After DDT was banned in 1972 and the Endangered Species Act was passed the following year, bald eagle recovery programs were launched across the nation by state and federal wildlife agencies, conservation organizations, and universities.

Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, points out that recovery programs for critically endangered species such as the condor and whooping crane are valuable testing grounds.

Virtually everyone agrees that successful recovery programs must be grounded in an understanding of why a species is in trouble in the first place.

The recovery program for the California condor faced many challenges, but fortunately the species has reproduced extraordinarily well in captivity, facilitating reintroduction efforts.

Not when the research was funded by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program.

Owing to the species» dramatic decline, a recovery program was developed and instituted in 2007 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service.