Zoo Atlanta's panda exhibit has sat empty since 2024. That will soon change as pandas are returning to the zoo!

Wide-eyed and bewildered, a tiny, house cat-sized island fox was reluctant to flee from its cage for the first time into the wilds of windswept Santa Rosa Island. The captive-bred predator remained ...

A known breeding Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) has made its way to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington state, in hopes it will produce more cubs of this critically ...

Genetic management in captive breeding programmes aims to conserve or restore genetic diversity while minimising the risks of inbreeding and adaptation to captivity. Programmes routinely begin with a ...

Vultures are making a comeback in India after a two-decade decline, with over 700 birds bred in captivity and released into ...

A captive-breeding program for Sumatran rhinos should focus on trapping fertile females from the wild, scientists say in a new paper. The study looked at the high prevalence of reproductive diseases ...

Programs have been put in place to reduce the extinction risk of some of Australia’s most endangered species. Captive breeding is emerging as a controversial but crucial stopgap for a growing number ...

Maybe the most endangered bird on the planet is the Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the hand of Stuart Pim, an ornithologist who is studying the birds that number about 2,500 in Everglades National Park ...

With the endangered island fox now thriving again on the Channel Islands, a captive breeding program is no longer needed and the remaining breeding facility, on Santa Rosa Island, will be shut down.