Defenders Defines: Reintroduction

This YouTube video was produced by Defenders Of Wildlife.

What does it mean exactly when a species or animal is reintroduced? What does it look like for an animal to be reintroduced back into the wild? Let us define it for you!

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Reintroduction is simply a conservation tool. This is when wildlife biologists take animals from one area and put them into another for the purposes of recovering the species overall. Maybe this is historical habitat that they’re no longer found in due to elimination or other natural disasters. Maybe it’s new habitat that’s suitable for them today

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Babies at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo

This YouTube video was produced by the Calgary Zoo.

Here comes the boom – the baby boom!

Zoo babies are stealing the spotlight this summer at your zoo. Already this year, we’ve welcomed a near-threatened southern bald ibis chick, three tiny spur-winged lapwing chicks, two lively North American river otter pups, two threatened wood bison calves, three critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemur pups, and most recently, a vulnerable Humboldt penguin chick along with a second near-threatened southern bald ibis chick.

But there’s more to come! In addition to awaiting the birth of an endangered Malayan tapir, we’re eagerly celebrating

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