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Captive Breeding
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North America > Captive Breeding Captive Rearing The Crane Conservation Department (CCD) at ICF utilizes advanced avicultural practices to produce and maintain captive-bred cranes that are suitable for reintroduction, breeding, research, and education projects. For a more in-depth look at these techniques please see the book Cranes: Their Biology, Husbandry, and Conservation. CCD also contributes to international crane conservation projects in an advisory capacity and often provides training for colleagues from other countries with captive breeding facilities. The majority of CCD's efforts and resources are currently applied to the conservation of Whooping Crane populations in North America through reintroduction of captive-bred birds. This important project will provide a clear indication of whether or not captive breeding for reintroduction is an effective approach to bolstering and re-establishing wild free-living populations of cranes. |