### Question
Can you define what wildlife means?


### Answer
**Wildlife** is defined as the following in *16 U.S.C. § 669a*:

> any species of wild, free-ranging fauna including fish, and also fauna in captive breeding programs the object of which is to reintroduce individuals of a depleted indigenous species into previously occupied range

#### Citation:
  - *16 U.S.C. § 669a*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 5B-WILDLIFE RESTORATION**

