Kauaʻi record · KCA-INT-0041
Conservation breeding, captive propagation & translocation
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About Conservation breeding, captive propagation & translocation
Prevent extinction and create/reinforce populations when wild threats exceed immediate tolerance
Names and classification
- Record type
- intervention
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Recorded state
- Available, active, proposed or context-dependent
Conservation interventions
- Action definition
- Prevent extinction and create/reinforce populations when wild threats exceed immediate tolerance
- Mechanism of action
- Captive management or head-starting, genetic stewardship, disease control and carefully planned release/translocation
- Prerequisites
- Species recovery plan; genetics; husbandry/veterinary capacity; secure release habitat and threat control
- Implementation context
- Critically imperiled taxa such as Kauaʻi forest birds or other species where authorized
- Expected outcomes
- Avoided extinction, preserved genetic lineages and eventual secure wild populations
- Monitoring design
- Captive survival/reproduction; genetic representation; release survival; wild breeding
- Unintended consequences
- Captivity adaptation, disease, genetic bottlenecks and release failure; does not substitute for habitat threat control
- Implementation limits
- Implementation status, cost and efficacy must be tied to a dated place/program record.
Sources and further reading
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