Responses: Restoring Populations and Species

Background Reading

CBFA: 10, 11.2.1, 12, 16.5

Lecture Slides

8. Conservation at Population and Species Scales (class)

Discussion

ESA

ESA Success Stories

Global perspectives

The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesEstablished in 1964, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species.

Global Reintroduction Perspectives: IUCN Book Series

Reintroductions

Repopulating the Galapagos Islands with Giant TortoisesOne of the goals of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative is to re-establish reproductive tortoise populations on islands where humans caused their extinction. Tortoises went extinct on Floreana and Santa Fe Islands in the mid-1800s and on Pinta Island in 2012, with the death of Lonesome George.

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New Hampshire’s ‘bear whisperer’ works with pandas in new documentary - The Boston GlobeBen Kilham’s techniques involve taking captive-born black bear cubs for walks through the woods, where they follow him like a mother bear. It’s hoped the method will work for pandas, too.

The Giant Sea Mammal That Went Extinct in Less Than Three DecadesThe quick disappearance of the 30-foot animal helped to usher in the modern science of human-caused extinctions.

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