CRESAM aims to contribute, through innovative projects, to the protection of wild animal species threatened with extinction, and to enable the survival of these species in the natural environment.
In particular, CRESAM wishes to adapt to threatened wild species the assisted reproduction techniques successfully used for domestic carnivores, in order to provide concrete solutions to conservation programs, particularly when the density of animals of the same species becomes very low, reducing its genetic variability and its chances of survival and reproduction.
Through its action in the natural environment, CRESAM promotes the conservation and reproduction of individuals in isolated micropopulations, and this in different countries.
CRESAM preferentially conducts its missions with the innovative and bold idea of working directly in the field, on wild animals, thus avoiding their captivity. It is indeed very difficult to reintroduce animals from captivity into the natural environment.
The cheetah is the first species for which CRESAM has decided to apply these techniques.
Finally, CRESAM carries out reproduction audits in zoological parks, providing diagnoses and solutions to the reproduction problems of wild carnivores in captivity.
