These guidelines were drafted by the Re-introduction Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission, and approved by the 41st Meeting of IUCN Council in May 1995. The definition of “re-introduction” is “an attempt to establish a species in an area which was once part of its historical range, but from which it has been extirpated or become extinct”.
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