SECTION 1: Lost in the Wild

Saved by Captive Breeding and Now Restored

Pedder galaxias (credit: David Jarvis).  World rights cleared and release enclosed.

Pedder galaxias (credit: David Jarvis).

This little Tasmanian freshwater fish, once endemic to the original Lake Pedder area, came very close to extinction. Its decline began in Read More

When I was at the Los Angeles Zoo’s breeding center, staff members showed me a photograph of a California condor who had been released in Baja California in Mexico—a member of the first pair to choose a suitable cave and produce an egg. The only thing different was that this couple had taken over Read More