{"id":159062,"date":"2023-02-26T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T23:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/extinct-in-the-wild-species-in-conservation-limbo"},"modified":"2023-02-26T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T23:22:57","slug":"extinct-in-the-wild-species-in-conservation-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/extinct-in-the-wild-species-in-conservation-limbo","title":{"rendered":"Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/extinct-in-the-wild-species-in-conservation-limbo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For species classified as \u201cextinct in the wild\u201d, the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown.<\/p>\n<p>Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the same challenges that pushed these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/species\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">species<\/a> to the cusp of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extinction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extinction<\/a> in the first place, including a lack of genetic diversity. But without <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/conservation+efforts\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">conservation efforts<\/a>, experts say, chances of these species surviving would be even smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1950, nearly 100 animal and plant species vanquished from nature by hunting, pollution, deforestation, invasive lifeforms and other drivers of extinction have been put into <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/critical+care\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">critical care<\/a> by scientists and conservationists, according to the findings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For species classified as \u201cextinct in the wild\u201d, the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown. Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the same challenges that pushed these species to the cusp of extinction in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}