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The illegal wildlife trade is the illegal trading of plants and wildlife. This illegal trading is worth an estimate of 7-23 billion [30] and an annual trade of around 100 million plants and animals. [31] In 2021 it was found that this trade has caused a 60% decline in species abundance, and 80% for endangered species. [31]
Philosophers have attached intrinsic value to different aspects of nature, whether this is individual organisms (biocentrism) or ecological wholes such as species or ecosystems (ecoholism). [ 9 ] More utilitarian schools of conservation have an anthropocentric outlook and seek a proper valuation of local and global impacts of human activity ...
Captive breeding is the process of breeding rare or endangered species in human controlled environments with restricted settings, such as wildlife reserves, zoos, and other conservation facilities. Captive breeding is meant to save species from extinction and so stabilise the population of the species that it will not disappear. [43]
The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List deemed that giraffes (considered a single species) were threatened with extinction in 2016. As a result, advocacy groups began to ...
The zoo coordinates breeding programs for some endangered species as part of the Species Survival Plan, such as thick-billed parrots [20] and red pandas. [21] [22] In 2011, the WCS announced that the Central Park Zoo was the first North American zoo to hatch ducklings of critically endangered scaly-sided mergansers.
A registered charity, the BBC Wildlife Fund, was established to direct funds raised by the programmes to conservation charities in the field to help save the featured animals, and other species, from extinction. Saving Planet Earth enabled the Fund to raise £1 million on the night, a total which had almost doubled by the end of 2010. [1]
Svalbard Global Seed Bank, an ex situ conservation. Ex situ conservation (lit. ' off-site conservation ') is the process of protecting an endangered species, variety, or breed of plant or animal outside its natural habitat.
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