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Conservation organisations have spent over 1 million pounds sterling trying to preserve the tamarin population in Poco das Antas, Brazil through the reintroduction of zoo animals. The Poco das Antas reserve is 20 square miles and supports 300 wild tamarins. The reintroduction programme began in 1984. The new families are released in areas around the reserve so as not to disturb the indigeneous population. About 30 out of 100 survive but their offsring have fared better. Their tameness make them easy prey to snakes, hawks and illegal traders. Each family has a nest box and is fed once a day for a year.
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London Zoo has a new 20 million pounds sterling strategy for the rest of the 1990's and needs to keep up the number of visitors. A baby panda would be a big attraction but Ming Ming, 14, has had eight artificial inseminations without producing a baby. Mating with Bao Bao in 1992 was so fierce that she needed surgery. Staff monitor her oestrogen levels for oestrus in late February. She may have artificial insemination again, with a laparoscopy.
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Environmental organisation Greenpeace believes strongly in using extensive media coverage to support its campaigns. It has a large archive of still and moving images, and also produces books. It manages to attract a lot of news coverage, and has an extremely efficient public relations department. It has sometimes attracted criticism from people who believe that it manipulates the media.
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