Zoos can be breeding programs for some animals that are either endangered or extinct. They could help improve the population of that species and hopefully grow to one day be able to get off the endangered or threatened list. Many zoos in California are rehabilitating animals and helping them back in the wild, but all over the states if they are not zoos then they are programs and restoration programs that help endangered animals. For other animals that could be labs, scientists and doctors researching and breeding a certain species to not only try and improve the population but learn from that species. For example what makes it so important, how it benefits and helps its habitat that then will help improve and  keep the ecosystems around it healthy, producing more and more of that species as well as where that species breeds and where it’s home is. For the Southwestern Willow Flycatchers it is important for them to produce more offspring because due to the last count to see how many of them are in the world, it showed a shocking number. There are only around 2,500 to 3,000 Southwestern Willow Flycatchers in the world (Barksdale, 2016). Due to that fact and the amount of research that is poured into the Southwestern Willow Flycatchers, their main focus is to mate more and have more babies as well as keeping their habitat healthy and clean. Even though there aren’t many areas and programs that help the repopulation of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher. There are some US Wildlife park protections for the Southwestern Willow FLycatcher but not many known breeding programs. As more and more research is being done, more information on the Southwestern Willow Flycatchers will be able to be found and will help to repopulate their species. More and more Southwestern Willow Flycatchers will appear in the United States helping not only their species but their ecosystems as well.