«This accomplishment means we can collect and preserve milt (seminal fluid containing sperm) from
wild populations without removing hellbenders from their environment.
Not exact matches
A recent review concluded that the
wild population would disappear
without the detox programme (The Auk, DOI: 10.1525 / auk.2010.127.4.969).
Without firm data on the scale of international trade in individual species, scientists can only guess at its impact on
wild populations.
In the case of the Sumatran rhino, however, some conservationists worry that
without a long - term strategy for reversing the environmental pressures that are killing them off, captive breeding alone can never restore the
wild population.
Eventually there will be no need for the chimeras and surrogate parents, once the captive
population has reached a size that individuals can be removed for
wild release
without endangering the continuance of the flock we will have reached our goal of a viable captive
population.
Eventually there will be no need for the chimeras and surrogate parents, once the captive
population has reached a size that individuals can be removed for
wild release
without endangering the continuance of the flock we will have reached our goal of a viable captive
population.
The challenge: figuring out how to produce enough of the finicky tunnel - nesting bees
without depleting
wild populations.
Plans are also underway to develop a captive breeding
population, as an «insurance policy» against the loss of the species in the
wild, and this may also aid further studies into the species» biology and its venom,
without the need to capture
wild individuals.
To feed a growing
population without paving more of
wild nature for agricultural land, Ronald and Adamchak argue that all paths towards yield improvements should be considered and pursued.