Sentences with phrase «as elephant populations»

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As the human population grows and farmers invade the forests with slash - and - burn methods to find fertile soil to raise cotton and corn, they run into a big problem: hungry elephants who love to raid their fields and gobble down the crops.

They plan to apply the new model to species such as nonhuman primates and African elephants, for which a great deal of population data exists.

Such figures cause conservationists alarm, as the study shows over 54 percent is a level of poaching that elephant birth rates are unable to overcome and will lead to population decline.

«It's a complex situation for elephants across Africa, with some populations — such as in Botswana — still increasing.

The team used the intensive study of the Samburu elephants as a Rosetta stone to translate less detailed information from 45 elephant populations across Africa to estimate natural mortality and illegal killing rates to model population trends for the species.

They are largely losing to ivory poachers, as attested by the latest available data on Africa's two species of elephant, both threatened: savanna elephant populations fell 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, and those of forest elephants plummeted by 62 percent between 2002 and 2011.

As a result, about 10 percent of Africa's elephant population is killed every year, about 30,000 elephants a year.

Tom Milliken, leader of the elephant and rhino program for the international wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC, said Namibia had 1,750 black rhino as of the end of 2012 and the population has been steadily increasing under good management and protection.

Or it could be used as part of a series of forensic techniques to separate ivory obtained during legal culls — necessary to control some elephant large populations — from illegal poaching, says Elias Sideras - Haddad of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who proposed a similar dating technique in 2001.

According to a 2013 study by the University of Washington, the annual number of African elephants being slaughtered to supply the illegal ivory trade is estimated to be as high as 50,000, or roughly one sixth of the continent's remaining elephant population.

The treatment of Asian elephants is a huge issue of animal welfare: and, as the forests of Asia diminish and the human population grows (India anticipates 1.6 billion people by 2050 AD) the working animals could well outnumber the rest.

Animals as large as elephants have been moved from one national park to another in South Africa in order to manage the growing populations there, he says.

As a result, more than 15,000 elephants are estimated to have been recruited into the population in 2006 and, if current rates of increase continue, the number of elephants born in these populations between 2005 and 2010 will be larger than the currently estimated total number of elephants in Central and West Africa combined.

The result: As many as 38 percent of the elephants in some modern populations have no tusks [source: BBC NewsAs many as 38 percent of the elephants in some modern populations have no tusks [source: BBC Newsas 38 percent of the elephants in some modern populations have no tusks [source: BBC News].

Bovine tuberculosis has been implicated in driving population declines in a number of endangered species such as elephants and African lions.

You'll also find the largest free - roaming population of black rhino and desert elephant, as well as 25 % of the world's cheetah in Namibia.

The elephant seals of the Falklands were heavily exploited as a source of high - quality oil in the 18th century: the population was very reduced by the beginning of this century, when sealing was concentrated on South Georgia.

As stated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species, the northern elephant seal has recovered from near extinction and population growth and is expected to continue over the coming decades.

«Rhino in South Africa alone are being poached at the rate of one every 18 hours and some estimates suggest that as many as 35 000 elephants were slaughtered last year from an overall population of between 350 000 and 400 000,» said Fiona Jeffery, chairperson of World Travel Market.

Does your dream adventure consist of witnessing the magnificent herds of wildebeest stampeding through the Serengeti, are you in search of rare encounters with Africa's largest elephant population in Chobe, or catching remarkable glimpses of wild gorillas as you trek through their natural habitats in Rwanda?

Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

The reserve is incredibly important though because it is home to a large population of elephants and other endangered species and serves as the headquarters for the organization Save the Elephants and its many conservation elephants and other endangered species and serves as the headquarters for the organization Save the Elephants and its many conservation Elephants and its many conservation programs.

In reply to retired physicist's comment, «Week after week, I read comments that invoke population control as the «elephant in the room».

In Kenya the problem as particularly acute among the elephant and rhino populations who are prized for their ivory tusks and horns.

Poaching and trafficking of iconic species such as elephants and rhinos are recognized to be at crisis levels, devastating populations worldwide.

The 7,800 square kilometre (3,011 square mile) Virunga national park, established in 1925, is the oldest in Africa, and is home to around one - third of the world's population of rare mountain gorillas, as well as elephants, hippopotamus, buffalo and antelope.