Animal Habitats

Securing Species Survival
We need to work together to protect natural habitats and prevent their destruction. However, for some species such as the Asiatic lion and the Iranian leopard, there just isn’t enough ‘wild’ left to maintain a viable wild population. Conservation breeding programmes are an insurance policy against extinction in the wild.

To find out more about Conservation breeding follow the navigation to the right.

The ultimate aim of conservation breeding is to support the species recovery in the wild. Of course this is very much dependent upon successful habitat conservation. For a description of the different habitats and ecosystems listed below follow the navigation to the right. The animal information sheets refer to these habitat descriptions.

• Tundra
• Northern coniferous forest (Boreal, Taiga) e.g. Canada and N.Russia.
• Mountains e.g. South American Andes, and Virungas, Rwanda.
• Desert e.g. Sahara, N.Africa
• Tropical rainforest e.g. Congo Basin, C.Africa.
• Tropical grassland (plains) e.g. Masai Mara, E.Africa
• Temperate rainforest e.g. Olympic Peninsular, N.America
• Temperate grassland (Prairies)
• Coasts e.g. Slapton Sands, U.K
• Ocean e.g. Atlantic ocean
• Fresh water e.g. Pantanal, Brazil.
• Mangrove e.g. Langkawi, Malaysia.
• Urban e.g. Bangkok, Thailand.
• Scrub forest (Chapparal) e.g. Cape region, South Africa.
• Tropical dry forest e.g. Western Madagascar.
• Temperate forest e.g. Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia