Wildlife preserve

GK54-Salvum — The Federation’s wildlife preserve planet Salvum

A wildlife preserve, wildlife refuge or game preserve was a sanctuary for plant and animal life. Unlike with a zoo, large quantities of animals were able to roam together privately in vast habitats. On non-Federation worlds, some preserves were used as arenas for hunting the animals.

It took months or could even take years for the Federation Council to review a petition filed to classify a world as a wildlife refuge. (VAN - Declassified novel: The Ruins of Noble Men)

History Edit

T'ralor Preserve on Vulcan sustained more than 100 nearly extinct plants and animals. (Last Unicorn RPG module: The Way of Kolinahr: The Vulcans)

In 1974, Gary Seven had Roberta Lincoln transport caged laboratory animals from Chrysalis including a tiger to the Sariska Nature Preserve in Rajasthan. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)

As a child, Pavel Chekov saw a large draft horse at the preserve in Moscow. (TOS novel: Windows on a Lost World)

Salvum was an intra-Federation game preserve, supporting diverse controlled environments for a variety of species such as Aridian sandworms and Plutonian snow-beavers. In 2267, thieves stole all of the male Gharian wedding birds from Salvum. James T. Kirk, Spock and Montgomery Scott went undercover to the non-aligned asteroid Grotus to recover the missing birds, which were being used for cockfighting. (TOS comic: "Sport of Knaves")

USS Enterprise Ensign Carl Remington grew up on Verinus IV, a wildlife preserve planet. In his first landing party mission, with quick thinking he saved Kirk from a large catlike creature which had misinterpreted Kirk’s actions as threatening to her cub and charged him. Kirk described the experience to Sarek in 2267. (TOS novel: The Vulcan Academy Murders)

The Preserve on Morassia supported bogforest, canyon and marine ecologies, each with a broad variety of life. Animal care was maintained by the Watchers. In 2365, Admiral Reddreck described it as "the latest wonder of the galaxy". (TNG video game: A Final Unity)

A wildlife preserve was located near Starfleet Academy. Prior to 2371, Harry Kim once saw infant chimpanzees there with Libby Webber. (VOY novel: The Black Shore) Nog once smelled lemon oil or goat at an animal preserve on Earth, perhaps the one near the Academy. (DS9 novel: Avatar, Book Two)

The Reserve on Andor was on a large, sacred, remote island. It had white-silica sand beaches, red sandstone cliffs, and deserts with peaks and canyons. (DS9 - Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel: Andor: Paradigm)

In the far future, Collectors kept herds of dinosaurs in the Collector Preserve. (DTI eBook: The Collectors)