EXAMPLES OF RESTORING BALANCE
Attempts to counterbalance population losses often center on breeding programs. In some situations, all members of a small, extremely endangered population are captured and held in protective custody (captive breeding) until careful management can help their numbers to increase to the point where of them can be released back into the wild.
There were, and still are, loud, nasty debates over the reintroduction of wolves into areas through which they historically had roamed for thousands of years, e.g.,