Sentences with phrase «vulnerable wild populations»

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Shedd Aquarium, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago Zoological Society's Brookfield Zoo and the 226 other member organizations of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), have launched a new effort focused on saving the world's most vulnerable species from extinction and restoring them to healthy populations in the wild.

Early herds were vulnerable to disease, droughts and storms, disasters that would have forced pastoralists to replenish herds from wild populations better adapted to harsh local conditions.

Wild populations are considered vulnerable, and in 2014 the species was placed on the Endangered list by the IUCN.