Conservation Breeding in the Age of Mass Extinction: Ethics, Reproduction, and Emerging Biotechnologies
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecology and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 79
Special Issue Editor
Interests: herpetology; assisted reproductive technologies; endocrinology; cryobiology; biobanking; evolutionary ecology; sustainable management; conservation breeding programs; biodiversity; space colonisation
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Dear Colleagues,
We discuss the age of mass extinction, the ethics and evolution of biodiversity conservation, and its current state and future potential, along with contemporary social, cultural, and geopolitical influences. Mass extinction has subjected ecosystems around the world to anthropogenic destruction or modification. The effects on species survival are unprecedented, disastrous, and accelerating. Some threatened species are managed through field activities. However, critically endangered species need to be managed using all available options for their survival, including providing ethical clarity, fostering the networking of participants in conservation breeding programs, and the development and application of emerging biotechnologies supported by wildlife biobanks. Environmental Intergenerational Justice provides an ethical foundation for biodiversity conservation, including habitat protection, conservation breeding programs, and their integration with reproduction and advanced biotechnologies to reliably and efficiently maintain genetic diversity. Species and ecosystem management can also benefit from species restoration using biomaterials stored in biobanks or from de-extinction using sub-fossil DNA. Wildlife biotechnologies have developed in tandem with other techniques for the benefit of humanity.
Dr. Robert K. Browne
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity conservation
- genetic engineering
- conservation breeding
- reproduction biotechnologies
- wildlife biobanking
- climate change
- terraforming
- mass extinction
- species perpetuation
- deextinction
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