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Wildlife Fertility
Control: Fact & Fancy
The Science and Conservation Center
Billings, Montana
One of the major efforts
of the Science and Conservation Center involves the humane
control of wildlife populations by means of fertility control.
The Science and Conservation Center is the world's only dedicated
facility for the development of wildlife contraceptives and
methods of application. This Center produces and carries out
quality control for a wildlife contraceptive vaccine, distributes
the vaccine and is the repository for all records and data
required by the Food and Drug Administration. Additionally,
the Center and its staff coordinate and in some cases carry
out field-based application of contraception to wildlife populations.
The Center receives many inquiries from around the world regarding
wildlife contraception, a subject that is as complicated and
confusing as it is arcane. These inquiries center about many
different species, diverse problems, and a variety of settings,
and those inquiring have a wide breadth of understanding about
the subject - from very little to quite a lot. To complicate
matters, there is a great deal of controversy regarding this
subject, some based in misunderstanding of facts and some
based in social or economic objections to this approach to
wildlife management. To facilitate the educational process,
The Science and Conservation Center, published a brochure
with the intent of providing a realistic picture of the state
of the art of wildlife fertility control. This portion of
the website presents the material from that brochure, called
Wildlife Fertility Control: Fact & Fancy, restructured
as a website. To be sure, the complexity of the subject greatly
exceeds the possibility of a comprehensive discussion here,
but these pages can acquaint the reader with the basics necessary
to develop a realistic picture, and the bibliography can lead
the interested reader to a wealth of more detailed information.
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