Some say that keeping wild animals in captivity is cruel. Others believe they promote conservation and give people a link to nature.
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If we brought devils back to the mainland, they could play a similar role to dingoes - keeping foxes and cats under control and potentially boosting the conservation prospects of Australia’s small mammals.
There’s more to reintroducing wildlife than just releasing a few lynx.
In a rare conservation success story, research has shown that numbers of wild large carnivores in the continent have been steadily increasing and a third of the European mainland now has at least one kind…
Today, many zoos promote the protection of biodiversity as a significant part of their mission. As conservation “arks” for endangered species and, increasingly, as leaders in field conservation projects…
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Environmental Social Scientist, Newcastle University
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Professor, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Biology, University of Sussex
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation, University of Salford
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Lecturer In Large Wildlife Ecology, Rhodes University
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Professor of Environmental Ethics and Conservation, Arizona State University
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PhD Candidate in Conservation Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Doctoral Researcher, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Associate Professor (Adj) He/Him, Southern Cross University
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Associate Professor, Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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Wildlife cinematographer and PhD graduate, UNSW
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Research Biologist, Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University
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Manager: DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town