Species decline: A perspective on extinction, recovery, and propagation

1 January 1983

journal article
Published by Wiley in Zoo Biology

Vol. 2 (3) , 165-178
https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.1430020303

Abstract

This keynote address was presented at the Conference on the Conservation of Endangered Species in Zoological Parks and Aquariums on April 18, 1982 at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. It outlines 1) future trends in the world's environment, resources, and population; 2) factors affecting species decline; 3) reasons for preserving life forms; and 4) techniques, with emphasis on captive propagation, used to assist in species recovery.

Keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES
CAPTIVE PROPAGATION
PROPAGATION
CAPTIVE BREEDING
RECOVERY

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

An Expanded Approach to the Problem of Disappearing Species
Science, 1976