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Conservation Value of Non-Native Banteng in Northern Australia

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posted on 2023-05-16, 20:02 authored by Bradshaw, CJA, Isagi, Y, Kaneko, S, David BowmanDavid Bowman, Brook, BW
The global species extinction crisis has provided the impetus for elaborate translocation, captive breeding, and cloning programs, but more extreme actions may be necessary. We used mitochondrial DNA, Y-chromosome, and nuclear lactoferrin-encoding gene sequencing to identify a wild population of a pure-strain endangered bovid (Bos javanicus) introduced into northern Australia over 150 years ago. This places the Australian population in a different conservation category relative to its domesticated conspecific in Indonesia (i. e., Bali cattle) that has varying degrees of introgression from other domesticated Bos spp. The success of this endangered non-native species demonstrates that although risky, the deliberate introduction of threatened exotic species into non-native habitat may provide, under some circumstances, a biologically feasible option for conserving large herbivores otherwise imperiled in their native range. ©2006 Society for Conservation Biology.

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Publication title

Conservation Biology

Volume

20

Issue

4

Pagination

1306-1311

ISSN

0888-8892

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing

Place of publication

Victoria

Repository Status

  • Restricted

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Social impacts of climate change and variability

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