Cross Breeds

breeding endangered animals and putting them back in the wild?

is there such thing as careers in breeding endangered wild animals and bringing them back to the wild for conservation etc.. is there any zoos that do this?

Public Comments

1. The Los Angeles Zoo does this for the California condor. Enjoy.
2. There are many Zoos/Aquariums doing this. Ex: Cinti./L.A. breeding Sumatran rhinos and sending them back to Malaysia. Please check the below links and you will find more info. http://www.aza.org/ http://www.rhinos-irf.org/srs/ Good Luck!
3. There are some zoos that do assist in the captive breeding of animals to be reintroduced back into the wild, but for the most part I think that zoo do more education and fundraising for projects than the breeding. However, zoos close a project may do more of the breeding for the project than zoos on a different continent. I think most of the breeding careers are going to be with, or close to, a [project, program, group, sanctuary, etc] that is involved with the conservation of the species. I'm not sure of all the zoos or projects that have captive breeding & reintroduction programs. There are a lot out there. Here are a few links http://www.aza.org/ConScience/ConScienceSSPFact/index.html http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species/about_ssc/index.cfm http://cms.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species/working_together/specialist_groups/directory_specialist_groups/index.cfm http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species/our_solutions/programmes/index.cfm http://www.sandiegozoo.com/kids/readaboutit_help_wildlife.html http://cres.sandiegozoo.org/index.html http://www.sazoo-aq.org/conservation/index.html http://www.lpzoo.com/conservation/Population_Biology/reintroduction/fox.htm http://www.perthzoo.wa.gov.au/Conservation--Research/Projects-in-the-Wild http://www.cloudedleopard.org/default.aspx?link=thai_conservation http://www.massey.ac.nz/~darmstro/au_projects.htm http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/default.cfm http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/EndangeredSpecies/CapBreedPops/default.cfm http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dallan/nre220/outline23.htm
4. That IS what most zoos do. San Diego zoo and the Los Angeles zoo are rather famous for this. Check out this site below for more info: http://cres.sandiegozoo.org/