We read with interest the review, ���Fertility control in wildlife: humans as models,���
published earlier this year in Contraception [
[1]
]. However, we were disappointed to see that the authors were unaware of much of the
research and application involving wildlife contraception that is underway. In fact,
a coordinated program for contraception in captive wildlife has been in existence
in North American zoos since the mid-1970s. The AZA Wildlife Contraception Center
at the Saint Louis Zoo, supported by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, provides
information and recommendations on contraceptive use through its Web page (www.stlzoo.org/contraception) and maintains an extensive database with approximately 20,000 records of contraceptive
use, supplemented by annual surveys of all contraceptive methods used in zoos in the
United States as well as in Europe and Australia. The center also coordinates research
into promising new methods, monitors methods in application and helps make products
available to zoos through commercial partnerships. These products include a synthetic
progestin in implant or oral formulations and GnRH agonists as preformed or injectible
implants. In 2005, the Johns Hopkins University Press published an edited volume,
Wildlife Contraception: Issues, Methods and Application, which was a collaborative effort of the center's staff and advisory board members.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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References
- Fertility control in wildlife: humans as a model.Contraception. 2006; 73: 6-22
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Published online: May 11, 2007
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© 2007 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
