Conservation spotlight: Wyoming toad

Article Abstract:

The factors causing a decline in the population of the Wyoming Toad may be increasing predation, climatic changes, use of insecticides, lack of genetic variation and loss of natural habitat. The Wyoming Toad is an endangered animal which is found only in the Laramie Basin. To enhance its captive population numbers, husbandry issues such as simulation of climate, diet, and red leg bacterial infection of the toads were considered. This allowed the release of the toads back into the wild. The release sites with head start tanks will be monitored to observe their reestablishment in the wild.

Laramie, Wyoming

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Conservation spotlight: giant panda

Article Abstract:

The Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) held a Management Planning Workshop for protecting giant pandas in Chengdu, China from Dec 10-13, 1996. CSBG is a non-governmental agency affiliated with IUCN-World Conservation Union's Species Survival Commission. The workshop sought to develop scientific programs that will sustain healthy and growing populations of giant pandas in China. It also generated new information on pandas such as only one captive-born male and six captive-born females have reproduced so far.

China, Endangered species, Giant panda

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The Wyoming toad

Article Abstract:

The endangered Wyoming toad is found on the prairie of Wyoming's Laramie Basin but its decline is a cause for concern. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, together with The Nature Conservancy, has acquired the toad habitat at Mortenson Lake where a breeding program is in place as a means of repopulating five other locations with around 100 Wyoming toads at each site. Survival of reintroduced animals is normally low, but the use of a child's wading pool as a 'head-start tank, is proving promising.

Research, United States. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wyoming, Prairies, Laramie County, Wyoming

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