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unusual facts about wildlife conservation



Lough Swilly

These reclaimed lands are now regarded as one of Ireland's premier wetlands for wildlife conservation and birdwatching, supporting over 4,000 Whooper Swans and thousands of Greenland white front, Barnacle, Greylagg and Brent geese.

Tiger penis soup

In 1996, the Wildlife Conservation Society, an organization that focuses upon wildlife conservation, ran an international advertising campaign stating that claims of sexual potency being enhanced from consuming tiger penis soup are fraudulent.


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Herbert Whitley

2003 - August 14 - Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust purchased Newquay Zoo to operate as part of the charitable trust with Paignton Zoo and Living Coasts.

Jeremy Mallinson

He was also awarded the Wildlife Conservation Award from the Zoological Society of San Diego upon retirement in 2002.

Lewin's Rail

A subspecies of Lewin's Rail, listed as Lewin's Water Rail (Rallus pectoralis clelandi), is on Western Australia's Wildlife Conservation (Specially Protected Fauna) Notice 2008 Schedule 2 — Fauna presumed to be extinct under the WA Wildlife Conservation Act 1950.

North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

This tenet draws from the writings of Aldo Leopold, who in the 1930s called for a wildlife conservation movement facilitated by trained wildlife biologists that made decisions based on facts, professional experience, and commitment to shared underlying principles, rather than strictly interests of hunting, stocking, or culling of predators.

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

George Schaller, director of Wildlife Conservation International, said this was “a marvelous book, unique, intelligent, attuned to cultures and filled with stimulating ideas.”

R. S. R. Fitter

Richard Fitter was also one of the leading figures in the international wildlife conservation movement, and for many years the Honorary Secretary of the Fauna Preservation Society (now Fauna and Flora International).

Robert E Fuller

Born in 1972, Fuller moved to Great Givendale, where his father, Richard Fuller, an author and wildlife enthusiast, earned notability for wildlife conservation after winning the Silver Lapwing award for farm conservation.

Turtle Conservancy

The Behler Chelonian Center is a seven acre, AZA-Certified zoological facility founded in 2004, upon the request of John L. Behler (1943-2006), the international turtle conservationist and then Curator of Herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, to provide a home for Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) established chelonian assurance colony.

Udawalawe Elephant Transit Home

In order to support these orphaned elephants, the Department of Wildlife Conservation set up the Elephant Transit Home within Udawalawe National Park with help from the Born Free Foundation.

WCN

Wildlife Conservation Network, a non-profit wildlife conservation organization.

Wildlife Preservation Canada

It was founded in 1985 by Gerald Durrell as a sister organization of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust (now Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust), and was initially known as the Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada.