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128138
Wed, 06/16/2010 - 13:34
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Al Ain Wildlife Park to increase genetic diversity of world's captive sand cat population
Abu Dhabi, June 16, 2010 (WAM)- The Al Ain Wildlife Park '&' Resort (AWPR) is increasing the genetic diversity of the world's captive Sand cat population by using an assistive reproduction technique called In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) to breed Sand cats from collections in the United States to those at AWPR.
This marks another important step forward in the Al Ain Wildlife Park '&' Resort's program to conserve threatened cat species and other arid land carnivores such as the Arabian leopard.
Over the past nine months AWPR, in partnership with University of Illinois and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, has reported several successes with Project Sand Cat. In January 2010 AWPR announced, the first-ever sand cat kittens were born as a result of IVF-ET procedures. In May 2010 AWPR exhibited a one-of-a-kind Sand cat mother kitten pair in its wildlife park. – Emirates News Agency, WAM
This marks another important step forward in the Al Ain Wildlife Park '&' Resort's program to conserve threatened cat species and other arid land carnivores such as the Arabian leopard.
Over the past nine months AWPR, in partnership with University of Illinois and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, has reported several successes with Project Sand Cat. In January 2010 AWPR announced, the first-ever sand cat kittens were born as a result of IVF-ET procedures. In May 2010 AWPR exhibited a one-of-a-kind Sand cat mother kitten pair in its wildlife park. – Emirates News Agency, WAM
