Conservation spotlight: a butterfly ranch takes flight in Costa Rica
Article Abstract:
The butterfly ranching program in Costa Rica is an economic incentive program for the protection of wild butterflies and their rainforest habitat. The program involves teaching butterfly ranching, attracting tourists, and giving the tourism and export money to the people of Barra del Colorado. The whole community is involved in the program, including children and older residents. Residents plant nectar and host plants, so that butterflies are drawn from the adjacent rainforests. The live butterfly house attracts tourists, and extra pupae are sold to zoos and aquariums, to increase export profits.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1996
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Conservation spotlight: the Attwater's prairie chicken
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The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center and other conservation organizations jointly support the regeneration program for the Attwater's prairie chicken through captive breeding and habitat protection. Deterioration of the chicken population is due to the cumulative effect of poaching, and habitat loss due to overgrazing and industrial expansion. The recovery program begins in the breeding season with the hatching of eggs collected from the wild. The program plans to restore a genetically viable population of at least 5000 individuals in different states.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1996
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Conservation spotlight: piping plovers plucked from perilous predicament
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The recovery plan at the Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens and the Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens is aimed at saving the piping plovers from extinction. The plan has been developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Taxon Advisory Group of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association. Animal husbandry and management of this species in captivity are also included in the recovery plan. The focus of the plan is on revealing the importance of zoos and aquariums in conservation programs.
Publication Name: Endangered Species Update
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1081-3705
Year: 1996
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