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Edits/additions for Species Translocation article:

Introduction translocation has also been widely used for biological control. (in the first paragraph under Three types)

Reintroduction of native species can increase the stability of an ecological community and increasing the level of ecosystem function. (in the second paragraph under Three types)

The concept of rewilding ecosystems with extinct or long extinct species or an ecologically similar species has started to gain more attention recently. (addition to the Trends paragraph)

Translocation Success
Species translocation can vary greatly across taxa. For instance, bird and mammal translocations have a high success rate, while amphibian and reptile translocations have a low success rate. Successful translocations are characterized by moving a large number of individuals, using a wild population as the source of the translocated individuals, and removing the problems which caused their decline within the area they are being translocated. The translocation of 254 black bears to the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas resulted in more than 2,500 individuals 11 years later and has been seen as one of the most successful translocations in order Carnivora. Another example of successful translocation is the gray wolf translocation in Yellowstone National Park.

I'll start by discussing your edits to the "Species Translocation" article. As I was reading the article before your edits, it felt like the specific paragraphs in the "Three Types" subcategory were missing a main theme statement. It seems like they define the type of species translocation and then start by going into various examples or leave out examples entirely. That's why I like your first statement on introduction translocation been used for biological control, which is linked. I would suggest giving a basic definition of biological control and tying that in to what's been stated in the article already. I would also establish this theme early on in this particular paragraph which can be supported by the subsequent statements. In the second edit, this statement seems like a strong supporting theme statement to species re-introduction which can have examples associated with it. I would suggest any solid examples that you could find would greatly add support to this paragraph, because the article introduces reasons why re-introduction is important and why populations have gone extinct in certain habitats, so you could provide cases where there have been significant attempts (whether good or bad) of species re-introduction. You might also consider "linking" the terms "ecological community," etc. The third edit concerning "rewilding" is a statement that should come at the end of the paragraph (albeit a small one). The section opens up with translocations from the 1973-1989, and then leaves it with that information. There have been so many changes in policy and attention to species translocation in recent years which you addressed, so I would suggest any information on the number of translocations from the past decade would be good supporting data to this section, to draw comparisons between the last 30-40 years. For your additional section on "Translocation Success," I believe this subsection should be added to the main article because there already exists the "Reasons for Failure" subsection. In terms of placement of this subsection, you could either put it before the "Reasons for Failure" section, or afterward (your personal preference). Personally, I would put it before the "Reasons for Failure" and after the "Western Shield" section, because the "Western Shield" translocation does have success associated with it, and you could build off those statements with your success story examples in North America. I would only add maybe a little more clarification and information on the gray wolf translocation as to why that was necessary (without going into the hard details because you linked to another article). Overall, I feel like these edits and additions will give more strength and clarity to this article.