Review of terrestrial and freshwater animal reintroduction programmes from an international and Hungarian perspective
Abstract
We endeavoured to collect the international literature of terrestrial and freshwater animal reintroductions as fully as possible and we examined more closely the Hungarian programmes. We gathered into a database bibliographic data of 8 508 sources produced between 1891 and 2015. The amount of literature showed exponential growth and then fluctuation after saturation. We are aware of 27 implemented Hungarian reintroduction programmes. We showed that following the recommendations of the IUCN guidelines increases significantly the potential of a programme to be successful. In an international perspective, the annual costs of the projects span from a negligible amount to 2 million USD. We found a significant taxonomic bias: in the international literature and also amongst the Hungarian programmes invertebrates are present in a lower, birds and mammals in a higher weight compared to their proportion in biodiversity.
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