The Wild Side supports zoos, research labs, and captive breeding. If the idea of zoos or labs horrifies you, please reconsider. When species eome so endanered that there are too few to sustain a geneticly healthy population in the wild, zoos and laboratories step in with a program to rebuild the populations by breeding in captivity. The goal of captive breeding is not just to build a large enough population, but to ensure that the poulaion is geneticly diverse enough to overcome disease or other disaster. The Wild Side also supports pollinator research, and beneficial insect awareness in general because we can not live without pollinators and insects are the most numerous and successful group of animals on this planet.
Pollinators clearly deserve more press and our help.
They are also an endangered species that is surprisingly easy to help in real life. The WildSide supports primate reintroduction, captive breeding, captive care research, because we are primates ourselves. Whether or not you believe in human evolution yourself, we are still classified in the same order as prosimians Old and New World monkeys, and great apes. We all have eyes that face forward and fuse images for depth perception, opposable thumbs for grasping. We bear our infants at most two at a time because they are born helpless with a need to develop a big brain.