Wildlife Preservation Canada
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Conservation ethic
Conservation is an ethic of resource use, allocation, and protection. Its primary focus is upon maintaining the health of the natural world: its, fisheries, habitats, and biological diversity. Secondary focus is on materials conservation and energy conservation, which are seen as important to...
and captive breeding
Captive breeding
Captive breedingis the process of breeding animals in human controlled environments with restricted settings, such as wildlife reserves, zoos and other conservation facilities; sometimes the process is construed to include release of individual organisms to the wild, when there is sufficient...
issues in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It is headquartered in Guelph
Guelph
Guelph is a city in Ontario, Canada.Guelph may also refer to:* Guelph , consisting of the City of Guelph, Ontario* Guelph , as the above* University of Guelph, in the same city...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
.
It was founded in 1985 by Gerald Durrell
Gerald Durrell
Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell, OBE was a naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter...
as a sister organization of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust (now Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust), and was initially known as the Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada. It was founded on the lines of its other sister organization Wildlife Trust
Wildlife Trust (US)
EcoHealth Alliance, formerly known as Wildlife Trust, is a non-profit, non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City working on conservation ecology and issues in the United States and around the world....
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It also initially shared the Dodo
Dodo
The dodo was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Related to pigeons and doves, it stood about a meter tall, weighing about , living on fruit, and nesting on the ground....
logo with the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, before having the present logo.
The Trust supports young environmentalists with the Canada's New Noah program.
Activities
Wildlife Preservation Canada is actively involved in the protection of critically endangered species around the world, including:- CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
: Burrowing OwlBurrowing OwlThe Burrowing Owl is a tiny but long-legged owl found throughout open landscapes of North and South America. Burrowing Owls can be found in grasslands, rangelands, agricultural areas, deserts, or any other open dry area with low vegetation. They nest and roost in burrows, such as those excavated...
, Eastern Loggerhead ShrikeLoggerhead ShrikeThe Loggerhead Shrike is a passerine bird. It is the only member of the shrike family endemic to North America; the related Northern Shrike occurs north of its range but also in the Palearctic....
, Spiny Softshell TurtleSpiny Softshell TurtleThe Spiny softshell turtle is a species of softshell turtle, one of the largest freshwater turtle species in North America...
, Swift FoxSwift FoxThe swift fox is a small light orange-tan fox around the size of a domestic cat found in the western grasslands of North America, such as Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. It also lives in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada, where it was previously extirpated...
, Vancouver Island MarmotVancouver Island MarmotThe Vancouver Island marmot naturally occurs only in the high mountains of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. This particular marmot species is large compared to some other marmots, and most other rodents... - Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
: Ridgway's HawkRidgway's HawkRidgway's Hawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes the eagles, hawks and Old World vultures... - BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
: Woolly Spider Monkey (Muriqui) - MauritiusMauritiusMauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...
: Mauritius ParakeetMauritius ParakeetThe Mauritius Parakeet , also known as Echo Parakeet, is the sole survivor of the Psittacula species which inhabited the southern Indian ocean islands near Madagascar. Its local name is katover.-Taxonomy:...
(Echo Parakeet), Mauritius FodyMauritius FodyThe Mauritius Fody is a rare species of bird in the weaver family. It is endemic to the island of Mauritius. It is classified by BirdLife International as being endangered. It is also on the United States' Endangered Species List with an endangered status.This bird is 14 centimeters long...
, Mauritius KestrelIndian Ocean kestrelsIsolated on various islands around the Indian Ocean, kestrel populations evolved into different species, like Darwin's finches. Behaviour remains similar to other small species of Falco except on forested Mauritius where kestrels hunt arboreally more like hawks...
, Pink PigeonPink PigeonThe Pink Pigeon, Columba mayeri, is a species of Columbidae endemic to Mauritius, and is now very rare. It was on the brink of extinction in 1991 when only 10 individuals remained, but its numbers have increased due to the efforts of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust since 1977...
The conservation programs usually include in-situ infrastructure development, awareness campaigns and in-situ and ex-situ captive breeding programs.
External links
- Wildlife Preservation Canada - the official site
- Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
- The Wildlife Trust, USA