Agriculture: The science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products.

Alleviate: To make (something, such as pain or suffering) more bearable.

Alpha Pair: Where one male and one female fulfill this role together, they are sometimes referred to as the alpha pair.

Amenities: Something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment.

Archaic: Having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses.

Biological Diversity:  The variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are a part.

Biome: A major ecological community type.

Breeding:  The action or process of bearing or generating.

Brood Size: The young of an animal or a family of young.

Canid: Any of a family (Canidae) of carnivorous animals that includes wolves, jackals, foxes, coyote, and the domestic dog.

Captivity: The condition of being imprisoned or confined.

Climate: The average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation.

Coalition: An alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states.

Confined: Limited to a particular location.

Conservation: Careful preservation and protection of something.

Disarray: A lack of order or sequence.

Disjunct: Marked by the separation of or from usually contiguous parts or individuals.

Domesticated: Adapted over time (as by selective breeding) from a wild or natural state to life in close association with and to the benefit of humans. 

Ecological Role: All species provide some kind of function to an ecosystem. 

Ecosystem: The complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.

Enclosure: An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.

Endangered: Seriously at risk of extinction. 

Extinct: No longer existing. 

Facilities: Something (such as a hospital) that is built, installed, or established to serve a particular purpose. 

Food Chain: An arrangement of the organisms of an ecological community according to the order of predation in which each uses the next usually lower member as a food source. 

Genetic: Relating to or determined by the origin, development, or causal antecedents of something. 

Gestation Period: The carrying of young in the uterus. 

Habitat:  The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.  

HIPPCO: An acronym for the greatest threats to marine biodiversity. Habitat Loss and degradation, Invasive Species, Population Growth, Pollution, Climate Change, Overfishing.

Hybridization: Happens when atomic orbitals mix to form new atomic orbitals. 

Keystone Species: A species of plant or animal that produces a major impact (as by predation) on its ecosystem and is considered essential to maintaining optimum ecosystem function or structure. 

LiveStock: Animals kept or raised for use or pleasure. 

Nurturing: The sum of the environmental factors influencing the behavior and traits expressed by an organism. 

Nuisance Species:  A species that is not native to a specific location, and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment. 

Nutria: A large semiaquatic rodent resembling a beaver, native to South America. It is kept in captivity for its fur and has become naturalized in many other areas.

Reproduction: The process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring and which fundamentally consists of the segregation of a portion of the parental body by a sexual or an asexual process and its subsequent growth and differentiation into a new individual. 

Persecution: The condition of being persecuted, harassed, or annoyed. 

Poaching: Poaching has been defined as the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals

Population: The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region. 

Predator: An organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms. 

Preservation: The activity or process of keeping something valued alive, intact, or free from damage or decay. 

Prey: An animal taken by a predator as food. 

Restoration: A bringing back to a former position or condition. 

Refuges: A naturally occurring sanctuary, such as an island, that provides protection for species from hunting, predation or competition, it is a protected area, a geographic territory within which wildlife is protected. 

Reserves: An area of land managed to conserve wildlife habitat.

Speciation: The process of biological species formation. 

Species Richness: The number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region. 

Stakeholder: One who is involved in or affected by a course of action. 

Sustainable: Relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged. 

Territories: A geographic area belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority. 

Trophic Levels: One of the hierarchical strata of a food web characterized by organisms which are the same number of steps removed from the primary producers.