Animal Translocations: What are they and why do we do them?

Reintroduction Biology: Integrating Science and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-32

  Seddon, Philip J ^a   Strauss, W Maartin ^b   Innes, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

'ethnotramps'; Animal translocation, motivations; Animal translocations, conservation; Biological control, or biocontrol; Non conservation translocations; South Island, North Island kokako translocation; Terminology, contradictory; Translocation of animals; Translocation spectrum; Wildlife rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886499890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444355833.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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