Success Stories

Since 2007, CPSG has facilitated a series of workshops for the red panda throughout its range and across the in situ - ex situ spectrum.

The Situation
The red panda lives in temperate forests of Nepal ...

Eastern barred bandicoots are small marsupials native to Australia and Tasmania. Though the Tasmanian subspecies is faring well, the Australian populations of bandicoots have dwindled due to predatory ...

The Central American river turtle is an aquatic species found in lakes and deep rivers of the Atlantic lowlands of southeastern Mexico, Belize, and northern Guatemala. Genetic and archaeological ...

The greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus urophasianus) is one of the top priority species of conservation concern in Canada. Dependent upon sagebrush habitat for food and shelter, this ...

The takahë is the largest living member of the rail family. It is flightless and occurs only in New Zealand. Two different species existed historically: one on the South Island, Porphyrio hochstetteri ...

It is a bit of a mystery how free-roaming horses came to live on Assateague Island, since they don’t naturally belong there. 

Local legend says that the horses survived a harrowing shipwreck in the ...

In the 1960s, the future didn’t look bright for golden lion tamarins. 

The first field surveys of the species revealed that they were in serious trouble: only an estimated 200 of these small, fiery ...

For Hungarian meadow vipers—nicknamed “aristocrats” by the zoologist who first described them—human encroachment into their habitat has been both a blessing and a curse.

Conflict between warring ...

Tasmanian devils have a bad reputation. 

These scrappy carnivorous marsupials are short-tempered and tend to lash out at fellow devils who encroach on their mate or meal. They are insatiable, feeding ...

Conservation efforts for the American burying beetle were off to a rocky start. Measuring just 1.5 inches long, these endangered carrion beetles had unearthed a lot of strife among the ...

Yambaru was under siege. 

The forested, mountainous northern region of the island of Okinawa, Japan, is home to several species found only on the island, including Okinawa rails. The rails’ dramatic ...

When Hurricane Fabian bore down on Bermuda in 2003, 120-mile per-hour winds ripped across the islands, taking the lives of four people and causing $300 million in damage. The Bermuda Botanical Garden ...

Tree kangaroos descended from ground-dwelling marsupials, but they evolved to inhabit the treetops of the cloud forest in Papua New Guinea by growing long, saber-like claws to cling to branches. For ...

In 1996, a group of scientists stepped into a small, nearly inaccessible gorge at the base of a waterfall on the Kihansi River in Tanzania. They found it teeming with tiny yellow toads whose robust ...

Wattled cranes’ innate behavior makes conserving them quite a puzzle. They mate for life, have long gestation and fledging periods, and rear only one egg at a time. If a second egg is produced, the ...