Review of \u3ci\u3e Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle to Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding\u3c/i\u3e by Jan DeBlieu

In the early 1970s, when I watched Frances Hamerstrom\u27s initial attempts to achieve captive breeding of golden eagles, and later to induce red-tailed Hawks to complete most of their life cycle in captivity, I thought the practice to be only a novelty and biological sideline. I had no idea that the captive breeding and re-release of wild species into their natural environments would become such an accepted and important technique. Indeed this book documents many such attempts and some notable successes