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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Functional extinction

Functional extinction

  • Species extinct in the wild
  • Non-viable wild population of endangered species
  • Animals surviving only in zoos

Incidence

The last sighting of a Guam kingfisher in the wild was in 1988. All living Guam kingfishers are descended from just 29 captive individuals taken from the wild in the 1980s to U.S. zoos to create a breeding program to save the species from extinction.

Broader

Holocene extinction
Unpresentable

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(G) Very specific problems
Biological classification
N/A
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
D7NID
240292
Last update
Apr 15, 2022