The death of another elephant calf at Zurich Zoo has renewed criticism of captive elephant breeding programmes. Animal ...

South Florida water managers approved a breeding program for an endangered Everglades sparrow that for decades has fluttered at the center of the debate over how to move water into parched marshes to ...

Wide-eyed and bewildered, a tiny, house cat-sized island fox was reluctant to flee from its cage for the first time into the wilds of windswept Santa Rosa Island. The captive-bred predator remained ...

Genetic management in captive breeding programmes aims to conserve or restore genetic diversity while minimising the risks of inbreeding and adaptation to captivity. Programmes routinely begin with a ...

Why are zoos, aquariums, and labs sometimes the key to saving critically endangered wildlife? In dire straits, creating healthy captive populations is the best course to save these species in the wild ...

It is estimated that 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction as a result of human activity. For species not critically threatened, the preferred management action is to ...

Time is running out for the great Indian bustard. In the wild, fewer than 150 of these critically endangered ostrich-like birds survive, mostly in India’s Rajasthan state. But a captive-breeding ...

Programs have been put in place to reduce the extinction risk of some of Australia’s most endangered species. Captive breeding is emerging as a controversial but crucial stopgap for a growing number ...

Breeding animals in captivity and releasing these individuals into the wild is an important conservation tool. It is typically used to increase numbers and, sometimes, the genetic diversity, of rare ...

Shardul, a 10-year-old male red panda, has arrived at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Queensland. His move highlights how ...

Australia’s wildlife was hit hard by the 2019-20 Black Summer megafires. Amongst the casualties were our iconic tree-dwelling koalas, with an estimated 5000 dead in New South Wales alone. They are now ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Indonesia has reported the birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros in a captive-breeding program targeted to save the critically endangered species from ...