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Background
Overview
Crucial for understanding modern conservation strategies, species survival, and the scientific basis for policy decisions in wildlife management. Relevant for Environment & Ecology, and policy implementation challenges.
Wildlife translocation involves the deliberate movement of living organisms from one area to another for conservation purposes, often to establish new populations or augment existing ones. The metapopulation approach is a conservation strategy that views a species as a network of spatially separated populations that interact through dispersal, aiming to reduce extinction risk by distributing populations across multiple habitats.