Sentences with phrase «sumatran tiger habitat»

Video of the scene shows the donkey pushed down a makeshift ramp into the water surrounding the tiger habitat, where it is promptly pounced upon.

They have, for example, carefully mapped every farmer's individual plot of land to ensure that, as other farmers join the group, the farm clusters form wildlife corridors to protect Sumatran tiger habitat.

The new report says that pugmarks fall short as a counting tool because they are drawn from an «unknown fraction» of the 300,000 square kilometers of tiger habitat in India and are difficult to locate in some terrain, including hard or rocky soil as well as mangrove swamps.

To better measure tiger trends, they recommend that India adopt statistically sound sampling methods such as transects and modern camera traps set in prime tiger habitat.

Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, defends the use of pugmarks as «in tune with the local conditions» and says that the technique will be refined as part of a $ 1.1 million project now under way to map all tiger habitats.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

A veteran defender of the forests claims they could in fact be buying timber cut from rare tiger habitat or regions where there is illegal logging, or removed using methods that cause epidemics of malaria.

So last year the couple, who have two cats at home, decided to donate $ 500,000 for a new tiger habitat at Assiniboine Park Zoo.

The tiger habitat at the city's zoo.

Not only are they able to check out the new tiger habitat at the local Winnipeg Zoo on weekends and see the kids from their hometown enjoying it, they're also learning a lot in the process.

With tiger habitat shrinking and increasingly fragmented, conservation efforts are shifting from relocating troublesome tigers to relocating villages.

* Footnote Coincidentally, The Times «In Transit» travel blog just posted about tours of tiger habitat in this region.

July 2010 — Greenpeace International publishes «Pulping the Planet», revealing that major companies, including KFC, Pizza Hut and Tesco, are buying from APP and showing how APP is contributing to the destruction of tiger habitat in Sumatra.

These shady practices resulted in the flooding of villages, massive losses in tax revenue, and the destruction of critical tiger habitat and mangroves.

Times News Network: Will Sunderbans, the world's largest tiger habitat, survive a century later?

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.

To aid in this effort, Wikramanayake and his team conducted a landscape analysis of tiger habitat to determine if a recovery of such magnitude is possible.

Areas of high human influence that overlapped with suitable habitat were not considered tiger habitat.

Not exact matches

Located on the island of Sumatra, Kerinci is an important center for global cinnamon production as well as the home of Indonesia's highest volcano and one of the few remaining pockets of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.

Estimates from paw prints and camera traps put the number at about 1400 tigers (Science, 22 February 2008), a figure that reflects years of habitat loss and poaching.

Endangered Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) have been hit hard by canine distemper, their numbers falling to around 500 individuals in their Siberian habitat.

The spotted cat most closely resembles the leopard physically, although it is of sturdier build and its behavioural and habitat characteristics are closer to those of the tiger.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

In theory, loggerhead turtles should reduce their exposure at the surface in regions of high habitat overlap with tiger sharks.

Reaching their habitat is arduous and dangerous because of the humidity and the heat, and the terrain they favour is often infested with leeches, mosquitoes, snakes, crocodiles, and in Sumatra, tigers.

Pressure from poaching, decimation of their prey base, and habitat fragmentation have diminished the population of Amur tigers (also called Siberian tigers) to fewer than 500.

WCS Russia Program Director Dale Miquelle stated that «Like many large carnivores, tigers face an array of serious threats throughout their range, including poaching (of tigers themselves and of their prey), habitat loss, and conflict with local people.

The Sumatran tiger's habitat has been slashed by logging and settlement to just a quarter of the island, with only eight per cent protected as conservation areas, highlights the report.

Fear of tiger sharks, for instance, helps protect seagrass from being over-grazed, which in turns pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere and provides a habitat for fish and shellfish

The country recently ended logging of cedar trees in the tigers» habitat, which not only directly protected the big cats, it also increased the crop of cedar nuts, which fed and helped to boost the population of wild boars, the tigers» favorite prey.

In the early 1900s, for example, island development shrank the Indonesian forest habitat of Bali tigers (Panthera tigris ssp.

There, habitats for orangutans, elephants and tigers are being destroyed and land - clearing fires, which cloak parts of the region in haze, have become a routine hazard.

DiCaprio said a statement that the world's population of 3,200 tigers was endangered by «habitat destruction and escalating illegal poaching.»

They found that there are now only two habitats large enough to host more than 30 breeding females, an indicator of viable tiger populations over the long term.

With support from WCS and other partners, we conducted patrols in and around the park to remove tiger and prey snare traps and prevent habitat encroachment.»

That additional genetic separation arose when habitat loss cut the western tigers off from their eastern brethren.

Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state - of - the - art techniques for tracking tigers and estimating their populations and habitat health.

So today, on July 29th, let's celebrate the wonder and beauty of tigers and snow leopards and their habitat.

After years of illegal poaching and habitat destruction, an area that was once thriving with Indochinese tigers is now barren.

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

She started her own non-profit organization in 1983, the Roar Foundation, to support The Shambala Preserve, an 80 - acre (32 ha) wildlife habitat which enables her to continue her work in the care and preservation of lions and tigers.

The new habitats will include night houses, climbing perches, and swimming pools for the tigers.

We taught the tigers and giraffes to move (also called shifting or gating) into other locations of their habitat multiple times per day.

The Amur tiger was at one time known as the Siberian tiger until they were driven out of their natural habitats -LSB-...]

«SHARKS» allows you to dive into the depths with tiger sharks, great whites, oceanic whitetips and shortfin makos, all while learning about each species» habitat and the threats they face.

Spotting a tiger in its natural habitat in India is notoriously hard.

If You Chicken Out: Your choice: head over to the Australian Big Brother House (on the park property) and watch caged reality show contestants battle it out; or make a beeline to Tiger Island, Dreamworld's exclusive big cat habitat, which features both Bengal and Sumatran tigers behaving better than the Big Brother contestants.

Soon after reaching, disembark form the train to enjoy jungle safari at Ramthambore National Park which offers highest probability of viewing elusive tigers in their natural habitat from close quarters.

The park is a part of Project Tiger conservation and boasts of a number of tigers in their natural habitat.

When we think of wild animals losing their habitats, we usually envision elephants, rhinos, and tigers in faraway places.