Houbara Bustards
North African
Houbara bustards are an endangered species; numbers of this species have
decreased dramatically in only a few decades; between opening in 1995 and last
year the Emirates Centre for wildlife propagation has produced more than
60,000 of the birds it is located in the Missour in Morocco and is financed by
the AbuDhabi government .Similar have been
established in the UAE , Kazakhstan , China and Turkmenistan .The Centre
in Morocco has ambitious plans for the future to extend the release efforts to
15,000 birds per season; another set of technicians work on matching females and
males, a process that is tightly controlled to ensure the genetic composition of
future stock . All this is to help this species from not becoming extinct. The
scientists also monitor this species using radio and satellite transmitters to
track their movements.
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