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To late for the Samoan dodo? (1 Viewer)

Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson said:
The cause of the decline in numbers of manumea and threats continue to be attributed to natural disasters, hunting, feral cats, rats, loss of forest quality, disease and parasites and climate change.
anything would do well to survive all that!
 
I wonder is captive breeding an option?? - though it appears sourcing birds from the wild appears to be a rapidly reciding option:(
 
anything would do well to survive all that!

Well humans can do something about hunting, feral cats, rats, loss of forest quality, and by changing our behaviours we can lessen the effect of anthropogenic climate change, although we won't be able to stop it. Climate change is happening whether we like it or not; it's the rate of change that we still have an influence on, except for long term changes like ice ages. But it's over these long natural periods that animals and plants can adapt. Unfortunately the rate of climate change caused by humans doesn't give most species the chance to adapt because it happens too quickly.

If disease and/or parasites are caused by human activity, e.g. introduced animals passing on disease, then humans can deal with that too.
 
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I'm not sure if there are any currently in captivity. It would probably be a good option if some could be found as most pigeons seems to do very well, even things like Crowned Pigeons and Nicobars (pers obs, Jurong Bird Park) which are fairly odd pigeons...

cheers, alan
 
The classic Pigeon business plan seems to be "breed like rabbits, die like flies" (that was Carl Jones on Pinks, but I believe it applies with many other species), so if that works with Tooth-billed then by eliminating the second half of that equation in captivity some good could be done. Then we could end up with a Bali Starling situation of a species well represented in collections & barely hanging on in the wild. Hmmph.

James
 
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