Zoos with strong local (more or less)strong reintroduction efforts

Daktari JG

Daktari JG

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Was thinking about zoos with just that, strong local reintroduction efforts. I know there are many many others that have strong reintroduction of endangered non local species, but am interested in those who do so with local (more or less species. Off the top 'o me head I have this list:

Hope zoo -Jamaican Iguana
San Diego Zoo -California Condor, yellow legged frog
LA Zoo -California Condor
Oregon Zoo -California Condor
Phoenix Zoo -black footed ferret, chiricahua leopard frog, desert pupfish, narrow headed garter snake, 3 species of springsnail, gila topminnow
Perth Zoo -western swamp tortoise
St Louis Zoo- ozark hellbender
Houston Zoo- Houston toad, Attwaters prairie chicken
San Francisco Zoo- red legged frog
San Antonio Zoo - Texas Blind Salamander, Texas horned lizard

I know there must be others.
 
ZooAve in Costa Rica works with the reintroduction of various species. Off the top of my head I know they are involved in reintroduction efforts of Scarlet Macaw, Yellow-naped Parrot, Central American Squirrel Monkey, Great Curassow, and Geoffroy's Spider Monkey.

International Crane Foundation works (worked?) with Whooping Crane reintroduction.

Saint Louis, The Wilds, and some others work with American Burying Beetle.

Shedd, Brookfield, Lincoln Park, and Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum all cooperate on a reintroduction program for Blanding's Turtle.

Minnesota works with reintroduction of Dakota Skipper and several species of mussels.

Toledo works with breeding (and hopefully eventual reintroduction) of Karner Blues.

Saint Louis Zoo and the Endangered Wolf Center are hoping to start a reintroduction program for Red Wolves in Missouri in the coming years.
 
Calgary zoo: Whooping crane, Greater sage grouse, Burrowing owls, Vancouver Island marmot(only found in Canada and no willing BC zoo to do it), Pacific Fisher, Halfmoon hair streak butterfly, Northern leopard frog and the translocation of these plants
  • Drooping trillium (Trillium flexipes)
  • Green dragon (Arisaema dracontium)
  • Green violet (Hybanthus concolor)
  • American gromwell (Lithospermum latifolium)
  • Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica)
  • Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis)
  • Spotted wintergreen(Chimaphila maculata)
  • Wood poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)
Toronto zoo
Vancouver island marmot, Blanding turtle, Midland painted turtle, Atlantic salmon, Black footed ferret(not native to ontario but native to Canada), Vancouver Island marmot(Same as black footed ferret). I may have missed a few.
 
Roger Williams Park Zoo: New England cottontail and American burying beetle. Also some other local species they are involved with in other ways (i.e., spadefoot toads, native turtles, timber rattlesnakes), but currently I believe those are the only two reintroduction programs.
 
ZooTampa does rehab of Florida manatees. While it is not exactly the same as breeding/releasing, it is just as important, IMO. They also work with indigo snake reintroduction. Further, they have a part in the red wolf efforts. They used to have an off site breeding site for red wolves in the Green Swamp (near Tampa), but I am pretty sure they don't have that any longer. It was a large 3 or so acre pen in the Green Swamp Wildlife Management Area beside the ranger's house.

Central Florida Zoo hosts the Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation which focuses on conservation and reintroduction of indigo snakes and striped newts.

Gatorland works with Florida and Cuba on crocodile conservation of both American and Cuban crocodiles.
 
Colchester Zoo run a breeding and reintroduction programme for the Fisher's estuarine moth, Gortyna borelii lunata, a subspecies almost completely restricted to the Essex coast.

The programme will probably be coming to an end soon, as the aim of establishing the moth at all the newly-created habitat sites along the Essex coast has been achieved.
 
Chester have been involved in reestablishing large heath butterflies (Coenonympha tullia) on several Lancashire wildlife trust reserves.
 
San Diego also does reintroduction with Burrowing Owl and the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike.

Many zoos on the Pacific coast participate in the headstart program for the Western Pond Turtle.
 
Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland often post on their social media about the success they've had in readying beavers to be re-introduced to the wild, mostly in Scotland but some they've kept have also been re-introduced to England.
 
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