{"id":336981,"date":"2024-03-08T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=336981"},"modified":"2024-03-08T19:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T18:08:35","slug":"phd-student-from-the-wroclaw-university-of-life-sciences-researches-cape-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/phd-student-from-the-wroclaw-university-of-life-sciences-researches-cape-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student from the Wroc\u0142aw University of Life Sciences researches Cape penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pawe\u0142 Borecki from the PhD School at the University of Life Sciences in Wroc\u0142aw is conducting research to protect one of the most endangered penguin species &#8211; Cape penguins. His work opens up new possibilities in the conservation of endangered species through cryopreservation of genetic material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main aim of the research is to develop a method for the cryopreservation of Cape penguin semen to enable the creation of a biobank of genetic resources of critically endangered species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cape penguin population is declining at an alarming rate. At the beginning of the 20th century, some four million individuals could be found off the coast of Africa, where the species originated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;When we started breeding these birds in our zoo, this number was around 50 000, and today it has dropped below 30 000. Given this rapid decline in numbers, without intervention the species could become extinct in the wild in the next 15-20 years&#8221;, says the PhD student.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upwr.edu.pl\/aktualnosci\/na-ratunek-pingwinom-przyladkowym-4285.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/upwr.edu.pl\/aktualnosci\/na-ratunek-pingwinom-przyladkowym-4285.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pawe\u0142 Borecki from the PhD School at the University of Life Sciences in Wroc\u0142aw is conducting research to protect one of the most endangered penguin species &#8211; Cape penguins. His work opens up new possibilities in the conservation of endangered species through cryopreservation of genetic material. The main aim of the research is to develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":336805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336991,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336981\/revisions\/336991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}