Compare ex situ and protected-area conservation by explaining how each protects threatened species, preserves genetic diversity and supports biodiversity recovery in Cambridge A Level Biology questions.
Many zoos around the world are involved in captive breeding programmes for endangered species.
Outline the role of zoos in the conservation of endangered species, other than captive breeding programmes.
Chester Zoo, in the United Kingdom, controls the European captive breeding programme for the eastern black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis michaeli.
Fig. 10.1 shows an eastern black rhinoceros.
Fig. 10.1
In the captive breeding programme for the eastern black rhinoceros, 15.8\% of females breed each year while in the wild 23.7 % of females breed each year.
Suggest reasons why fewer females breed in captivity than in the wild.