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Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2024
Reagan held on to the birds for a few years, then sent Captain to the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park, Mo., in 1988, and Carol went to the National Zoo in D.C.
Captain became part of a critical conservation breeding program, fathering about six healthy eaglets that were released into the wild.
—Sydney Page, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
Health officials in Puerto Rico are urging people to use insect repellent and eliminate possible mosquito breeding sites by preventing water from accumulating.
—Rafy Rivera, CNN, 28 Mar. 2024
The use of rat poisons is halted in the city’s parks during nesting season, from February through August, or when a breeding pair of birds of prey is present in or near a park or park area, according to a Parks Department spokesman.
—Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2024
Talk about speed: Our scientists are already decreasing plant breeding cycles from five years down to merely four months with precision breeding.
—Bill Anderson, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024
Preventing them from breeding is important, Izon said, for the safety of us and our neighbors.
—Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 16 Mar. 2024
The project, named A Hop of Hope, is typical of Citizen Zoo’s approach, which invites supporters to get their hands dirty in captive breeding programs, translocating species and reintroducing them to restored sites.
—Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
Devlin believes the best chance to have a breeding population naturally return to the U.S. is to maintain connectivity between populations throughout the jaguars’ range, especially between Sonora and the Southwest.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
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14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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