CAPTIVE BREEDING IN ENDANGERED WILDLIFE: A REVIEW

The Economics of Captive Breeding and Endangered Species Conservation

There is growing concern that the traditional "protectionist" approach to conservation is expensive and fails to deliver the desired environmental outcomes. Encouraged by economists, “supply side” policies to conserve endangered species have drawn support. By generating supplies from captive–bred animals, wildlife commodity prices are expected to fall, thereby lowering the incentive to poach sp...

Minimizing genetic adaptation in captive breeding programs: A review

0006-3207/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2009.05.034 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 407 823 4007; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] mail.ucf.edu (E.A. Hoffman). Captive breeding for species of conservation concern is the act of bringing rare or endangered animals into captivity with the hope of rearing sustained captive populations for eventual ...

Captive Breeding of Birds

Captive Breeding of Endangered Yaqui Topminnow and Yaqui Chub for Recovery Purposes

—Yaqui topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis sonoriensis and Yaqui chub Gila purpurea, two federally endangered fishes from the Rio Yaqui basin (Arizona, USA, and Sonora, Mexico), were propagated by various methods. Propagation of Yaqui topminnow was attempted in aquaria and wading pools; the greatest number of offspring was produced in 556-L, plastic wading pools. We added substrate, artificial ...

Optimization Methods for Selecting Founder Populations for Captive Breeding of Endangered Species

Methods from genetics and genomics can be employed to help save endangered species. One potential use is to provide a rational strategy for selecting a population of founders for a captive breeding program. The hope is to capture most of the available genetic diversity that remains in the wild population, to provide a safe haven where representatives of the species can be bred, and eventually t...