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| | American Zoo and Aquarium Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Reintroductions to restock commercially harvestable populations, or to restock populations for recreational hunting and fishing are common, and may provide information useful for reintroductions intended to establish self-sustaining populations (1,12). |
 | | Reintroduction should not be used solely to dispose of animals surplus to a captive population, or to dispose of unplaceable "orphans". |
 | | If reintroduction of unwanted surplus or orphans is politically unavoidable, then every effort should be made to release the animals in areas where they are genotypically appropriate, and to isolate them (at least initially) from wild conspecifics to protect the wild population from disease and disruption, and to protect the reintroduced animals from aggression (1,6,11,12). |
| www.aza.org /AboutAZA/reintroduction (2234 words) |
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