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Headstarting

A conservation technique in which young animals, either captive-bred or collected from the wild, are reared in captivity until they attain a larger size prior to release into the wild.

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Wildlife Preservation Canada saves animals on the brink of extinction. Since 1985, we’ve been saving critically endangered species – species whose numbers in the wild are so low that a great deal more than habitat protection is required to recover them.

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