Captive breeding

Conservation breeding is the breeding of endangered species with the aim of this to save it from extinction.

The conservation breeding is coordinated through various regional programs:

  • Europe (including the Middle East): European conservation breeding programs EEP (European Zoos has EAZA)
  • America: Species Survival Plan (SSP American Zoo and Aquarium Association AZA)
  • Oceania: Australasian Species Management Program ASMP ( Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria ARAZPA )
  • Africa: African Preservation Program APP (African Association of Zoological Gardens and Aquaria PAAZAB )
  • Japan: conservation breeding activities of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums JAZA
  • South Asia: conservation breeding programs of the South Asian Zoo Association for Regional Cooperation SAZARC
  • Southeast Asia: conservation breeding activities of the South East Asian Zoo Association SEAZA

An international umbrella function performs the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums WAZA, which belong to 22 regional or national zoo and aquarium associations and 213 individual zoos and aquariums in 46 countries as institutional members.

Species that would be extinct without conservation breeding programs Zoological Gardens, include: bison, Przewalski's horses, Mhorrgazellen, California condors and Arabian Oryx.

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