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International Fund for Houbara Conservation Integrated Genetic Management Programme
Multi-decade conservation program using pedigrees and genetic management to maintain diversity across captive breeding, supplementation, and reintroduction populations.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Abu Dhabi-led international breeding and release network across the species' range
- Project type
- long-term conservation breeding and genetics program
- Research domain
- conservation genetics, breeding, and population management
- Years
- 1982–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- IFHC continues its breeding and release program, and a 2023 Khalifa University partnership explicitly expanded genetics/genomics research and technical capacity.
- Status evidence date
- 2023-09-07
- Scale
- Official/IUCN reporting documents hundreds of thousands of chicks produced and birds released; by 2021 cumulative figures exceeded 629,000 chicks and 487,000 releases.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- International Fund for Houbara Conservation
- Partner organizations
- Khalifa University · range-state conservation and breeding centers
- Organism / population
- Asian and North African houbara bustards
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- pedigrees
- genetic diversity data
- genomics
- breeding records
- release and tracking data
Data access
Programmatic/institutional; no unified open genomic dataset identified.
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Large, durable conservation-breeding program with explicit genetic management and a current genomics partnership.
Editorial note
The 1982 start is the conservation-breeding lineage, not the start of modern sequencing. Genomic datasets and sample counts are not publicly consolidated.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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