Whooping Crane Recovery Plan
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Whooping Crane Recovery Plan
In 1980, a Whooping Crane Recovery Plan was drafted to chart a course for saving Whooping Cranes from extinction. The plan was created by the Whooping Crane Recovery Team, a group of crane biologists and officials from the United States and Canada. If the recovery plan is successful, the species could be downlisted from endangered to threatened status by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Recovery Plan goals are to:
1. Maintain a minimum of 40 breeding pairs in the Aransas - Wood Buffalo flock.
2. Establish two additional separate, self-sustaining wild populations of Whooping Cranes, with a minimum of 25 breeding pairs each.
The first reintroduction effort aimed at satisfying the goals of the Recovery Plan began in 1993 in central Florida. Up to 20 chicks are released in central Florida each year to begin a new population of non-migratory Whooping Cranes.
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