The two strategies outlined above may not be ideal conservation solutions as separate methods, but perhaps make work in conjunction with one another. A short-term strategy such as supplementary food items and the re-introduction of rabbit species may be used while the process of protecting an area is being completed. The short-term approach would allow the survival of the species hopefully for a duration that would provide a reasonable amount of time for the protected areas to come into practice. Once the protected area was set up, natural processes could continue with minimal human interaction.
Overall, main barriers to success is always going to be government, general public, hunters, and the cost. It is important with any conservation strategy …show more content…
In order to apply any conservation strategy, not just the ones mentioned previously, an enormous amount of funding is necessary to even begin work on such a project. The efforts and resources that went into saving the California Condor cost approximately $1 million per year, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Services. This particular species entered captivity in 1982 and the project was on going in 2010 (Austin et al., 2002). With simple calculations, one species cost approximately $18 million dollars to conserve and then increase its population size. Theoretically, if the same strategies were applied to not only the Iberian Lynx, but also its prey and every other critically endangered species out there, there simply would not be that many resources or funds to support it. Individuals around the world would have to sacrifice their current ways of living in order to save the 17,000 vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered species (a projected number according to the …show more content…
This will aid in at least maintaining the current population of the lynx, while protected areas are developed, breeding programs are set up, and observations are taken in order to ensure a population increase for this species is a possibility. Similar to the success stories of the Whooping Crane and the California Condor, whom species populations dwindled down to under thirty individuals, with the help of capitivity, breeding programs and management of threats to the best of the supporters abilities, these species’ populations grew immensely (Austin et al.,
Overall, main barriers to success is always going to be government, general public, hunters, and the cost. It is important with any conservation strategy …show more content…
In order to apply any conservation strategy, not just the ones mentioned previously, an enormous amount of funding is necessary to even begin work on such a project. The efforts and resources that went into saving the California Condor cost approximately $1 million per year, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Services. This particular species entered captivity in 1982 and the project was on going in 2010 (Austin et al., 2002). With simple calculations, one species cost approximately $18 million dollars to conserve and then increase its population size. Theoretically, if the same strategies were applied to not only the Iberian Lynx, but also its prey and every other critically endangered species out there, there simply would not be that many resources or funds to support it. Individuals around the world would have to sacrifice their current ways of living in order to save the 17,000 vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered species (a projected number according to the …show more content…
This will aid in at least maintaining the current population of the lynx, while protected areas are developed, breeding programs are set up, and observations are taken in order to ensure a population increase for this species is a possibility. Similar to the success stories of the Whooping Crane and the California Condor, whom species populations dwindled down to under thirty individuals, with the help of capitivity, breeding programs and management of threats to the best of the supporters abilities, these species’ populations grew immensely (Austin et al.,