Returned to the Galápagos in 1977 after approximately four decades in California, Diego joined a captive breeding program that would transform the future of the Española giant tortoise. He went on to ...

Wild Forest musk deer (FMD) has been declining due to continuing poaching and habitat loss. Although captive breeding has increased population numbers, maintaining genetic diversity in these farmed ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A male Sumatran tiger has arrived at a captive-breeding program in Tacoma, Washington state, where it’s hoped more of the critically endangered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The sole remaining population of Javan rhinos, around 70 individuals, persists in a single national park in Indonesia. A new paper argues that ...

Two polar bears at the Saint Louis Zoo recommended for future breeding share a biological relationship, according to ...

Hawaii’s state bird fell to fewer than 30 in the wild by 1950. Captive breeding and releases helped lift a 2022 estimate to 3,862, including 2,430 on Kauai.

To keep Everglades restoration on track, the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday approved a captive breeding program for endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrows which nest in marle ...