Captive Breeding and Gene Banks

Today, our planet is in a state of crisis and many of its natural resources have been destroyed by human activities. One of the principle aims of conservation biology is to promote concrete management programs to limit any further increase in the number of extinct and threatened species and ecosystems. Different approaches may be followed to maintain the world’s biodiversity: the in situ approach and the ex situ approach. The former takes into account the preservation of natural resources in the wild, while the latter consists of removal of samples of endangered species and of their genes from their origin sites for conservation elsewhere under institutional protection.