Tag: captive breeding
617 Texas Horned Lizards Released By Fort Worth Zoo In 2024
The release is part of an efforts with the zoo’s Texas horned lizard conservation program, the texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and other zoo part [...]
50 Juvenile Texas Horned Lizards Released By San Antonio Zoo and Zoo Miami
The Texas horned lizards were approximate 2.5 to 3.5 months old at the time of the release and weighed between 3.4 and 12 grams. [...]
Caldwell Zoo In Texas Announces New Texas Horned Lizard Hatch
These lizards are an important part of the ecosystem and really, a cherished part of Texas lore. [...]
Fort Worth Zoo Announces Hatching of Two Gharial Crocodiles
The zoo is the only North American institution to have produced multiple gharial offspring two different times. [...]
Eastern Indigo Snake Hatchlings Found In Nature Conservancy’s Apalachicola Bluffs and Ravines Preserve
The discovery of two wild-born Eastern indigo snake hatchlings is very encouraging. It indicates we are successfully reestablishing the species where [...]
Australia’s Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon Gets More Conservation Help
The introduction of feral cats and foxes contributed to the decline of Tympanocryptis pinguicolla. [...]
34 Texas Horned Lizards Released By San Antonio Zoo
The San Antonio Zoo announced that it has released 34 Texas horned lizards that were captive bred as part of the zoo’s Center for Conservation and Res [...]
High School Students In Arkansas Hatch Out Four Louisiana Pine Snakes
The four snakes will remain on campus as they are not candidates for release into the wild. [...]
Zoo Atlanta Hatches Critically Endangered Bog Turtle
The bog turtle is listed as a critically endangered species by the IUCN. [...]
Two Galapagos Tortoises Hatch At The UK’s Crocodiles Of The World
Galapagos tortoises are the largest tortoise species in the world and can live more than 120 years. [...]
CA’s Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizard Gets Federal And State Support For Recovery
Local and state agencies with the state of California as well as the federal government have announced a joint conservation effort to recover the blun [...]
27 Captive Bred Aldabra Tortoises Released On Seychelles’ Desroches Island
The Island Conservation Society on the Seychelles Islands announced it has released 27 Aldabra giant tortoises (Geochelone gigantea) on the wild side [...]
Chester Zoo Successfully Hatches Orthriophis moellendorffi Rat Snakes
The Chester Zoo in the United Kingdom last week posted video onto social media of the first Moellendorff's rat snakes (Orthriophis moellendorffi) the [...]
204 Texas Horned Lizards Released Into The Wild
A hatchling Texas horned lizard. Photo by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
The Fort Worth Zoo and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, along [...]
Captive Breeding Program For The Spotted Turtle Launched In Ohio
The spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List, and is under review for protections under the Endangered Species Ac [...]
Once Functionally Extinct Burmese Roofed Turtle Now Number More Than 1,000
The Burmese roofed turtle (Batagur trivittata), a river turtle native to Burma, now known as Myanmar and other rivers in Asia was thought to be extinc [...]
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