Wonderful news! I support this effort and I would ask any folks who are able to, to donate to the cause. Bringing an extinct (in the wild) species back to a growing population is a worthy cause if ever I heard of one.
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That's amazing! Hoping the babies survive!It happened! Babies hatched!
From what I gather it sounds more like they've only recently started allowing the captive pairs to hatch and raise their own eggs. Often in captive breeding programs where there are very few of the species left and every offspring is critical to keep the species alive, people will raise the young themselves to prevent any accidental deaths (like an inexperienced parent crushing an egg, not feeding the babies enough, etc.) That doesn't mean that the parents aren't able to raise their own young, just that the people running the program want to ensure the survival of every chick.I'm just worried a bit about how they will raise the chicks because from what I read, it looks like, there are just few pairs in captivity which raise chicks without human help?! Or maybe I misunderstand something?