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Gippoliti, S.; Carpaneto, G.M.
Captive Breeding, Zoos, and Good Sense
1997 Conservation Biology (11): 806-807
A broad series of criticisms was presented by Snyder et al. _(Conservation Biology 10:338-348)_ about the use and abuse of captive breeding as a recovery strategy for endangered species, with special regard to the limits of traditional captive breeding centers. Although some of their arguments are easily condivisible, others seem biased from a U.S. perspective and difficult to extend to other countries. Concern about the ark paradigm, which has been in fashion in the zoo community over the last few years, has been expressed by other authors as the need not to confuse captive breeding for immediate recovery programs (reintroduction int he wild) with captive breeding programs for other purposes (research and exhibit for naturalistic and conservation education). Some of the arguments offered by Snyder et al. (1996), however, are not so univocal.
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