Dozens of official reports, plans and national strategies, and promises of technical help, have failed to overcome a vicious circle: most herders are poor, have too few animals, and cannot afford the improvements in breeding, pasture management and shearing needed to raise fibre quality and yield.
With Black Caviar's form seemingly better than ever despite her age, her connections have hinted that a return to Royal Ascot, scene of her narrowest-ever victory, may be on the cards later this summer before a rendezvous with Frankel in the breeding shed in what would surely be considered the racing world's own royal wedding.
It would be far more cost-effective to support local farmers in their breeding and evaluation of selected varieties already in community seed banks.
Daley and Rebecca will take part in a breeding programme to provide an important safety net to populations in the wild.
It had been hoped the female would take part in a breeding programme with several other coatis recently imported.
Those that cannot be sold and cannot be returned to the open moor because of the potential for in-breeding are slaughtered.
He has a date in the breeding shed as early as next week with the 2011 Horse of the Year, Havre de Grace.
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"I don't think we have ever had as intensive and difficult to put out fires this late in the breeding season, " she said.
"The beauty of the satellites is that you can count all the colonies around the Antarctic coastline at one go in one breeding season, " said Mr. Fretwell.
Albino individuals of adult frogs, toads and newts are considered to be very rare and cases of multiple albinistic individuals in a breeding population are even rarer.
The consortium of scientists from the Durham and Newcastle universities, and the UK government's Central Science Laboratory plan to identify these defence genes, enabling them to be used in wheat breeding programmes.
Prince Philip is said to be a fan of the sturdy breed with two of his animals, a gift from the Shah of Iran, having a fundamental place in the breeding programme.
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Like many other great young racehorses who have had short careers, I'll Have Another is likely to be a greater success for its owners in the breeding shed than it would have been on the track.
The problem is so rampant in central Kenya, where breeders have made in-roads into breeding rhinos in captivity on private reserves, that during the monthly full moon cycle, when poachers are not reliant on torches or headlamps for light, the rhinos need to be protected 24 hours a day.
The Chiterns Conservation Board said the area now had the highest breeding density of red kites in England and added there could be more than 600 breeding pairs in the area.
In 2008, birdwatchers' hopes of snowy owls breeding in the UK for first time in more than 30 years were raised when the bird was joined by a female.
And even here in this captive breeding program, an invasive insect has meant that in the past two years, only one baby tortoise, named Genesis, has hatched successfully.
According to Aqua Bounty, the engineered salmon are all female, sterile, and raised in physically contained facilities, so the chance of the fish breeding in the wild is negligible.
Bitterns recolonised the UK in 1911, when they were found breeding again in the Norfolk Broads, but were pushed towards extinction again in this country in the 1990s.
The great green macaw is also struggling in the wild in central America, with fewer than 25 breeding pairs in Costa Rica, and only about 40 birds in Ecuador.
The lesser black-backed gull and the herring gull are protected species in the EU. There are 6, 500 breeding pairs in the whole of Flanders, according to Eric Stienen, an expert in colony birds at the Flemish Institute for Nature and Forests.
That means that the ice plays a major role in their overall breeding success.
However, some animal welfare organisations, including Advocate for Animals, have "strongly criticised" the zoo's plans to start breeding in captivity.
But some wildlife officials said the ban came too late - after the southern Asia natives had begun breeding in the Everglades.
Last year's count introduced a few new species to North America, including the exotic purple swamphen, an escapee now breeding in the Florida Everglades.
They also backed establishing protected areas in the main breeding grounds.
But every year, a lucky few get the chance to feed, bathe and exercise the endangered animals at the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, China.
They're the result of unethical breeding in an inhumane industry.
In traditional plant breeding, some inbred maize plants destined to be crossed with others have their male, pollen-producing tassels cut off to prevent self-fertilisation (maize is a horticultural hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female sex organs).
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