Sentences with phrase «animal population across»

Many people are unaware of the extent of the homeless animal population across the nation and the need for spay / neuter.

SAC gives you a place to not only put your information in, but freely view what other organizations have entered, and the more organizations that put their information in, the better our picture is of animal populations across the country.

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The results have implications both for researchers trying to understand the rapid decline in frog populations across the globe and for conservationists looking to save the animals, said Vance Vredenburg, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University and co-author of the study.

For the JCI study, the team applied the radiotracer to monitor olfactory sensory neuron population dynamics in a rodent model, using PET to measure its uptake across the animals» lifespan, including during age - related neurodegeneration.

«While we use amphibians as an example in this article, the negative effects of collecting samples from endangered animal populations is a concern that applies across taxa and around the world.

The study, recently published in the journal Ecology Letters, reveals that contrary to expectation, the massive glaciers that expanded and contracted across the region affected animal populations in different ways at different times.

Then they applied a set of mathematical models to estimate the movement of nutrients vertically in the oceans and across the land — and how this movement changed with extinctions and declining animal populations.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

«This means that the odds of an individual animal making it across I - 15, surviving to set up a territory, successfully breeding, and then their offspring breeding so the genes are spread throughout the population is harder to have happen naturally than one would expect.»

While isolated colonies of laboratory animals are susceptible to becoming less genetically diverse, Brekke et al.'s findings suggest that diversity is maintained across many different populations.

November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month so we're giving some much - needed spotlight to the aging animal populations in shelters across the country.

With no safe passage across the two nature reserves, existing plant and animal species (with already shrinking populations) would be cut adrift from their kind on the other side of the expressway.

«This is the first time such a broad collection of national and international groups has come together to intensively reduce the population of animals across an island,» said Tara Loller, senior director, strategic campaigns and initiatives, HSUS.

The connection is made to the irrefutable, massive, negative impact puppy mills have on this country's pet population crisis and how our society deals with it — Millions of dogs are born in puppy mills every year, while, in the same period, millions are put to death in animal shelters across the country.

Progressive communities across America are evolving from the antiquated philosophy of controlling the unwanted animal population by euthanasia, shifting toward ensuring the welfare of all animals by educating citizens regarding animal welfare, responsible pet ownership and encouraging rescue opportunities for all adoptable animals.

As part of this project, CFHS conducted a general population survey of Canadians, as well as a multi-stakeholder survey of animal care organizations, receiving data from municipalities, veterinarians, humane societies and SPCAs, rescue organizations, trap - neuter - return groups, spay / neuter groups and other organizations across Canada that help to house or care for unwanted, abandoned, stray and feral cats in Canada.

Launched in 2004, PetSmart Charities» Rescue Waggin» program, which networks more than 60 animal shelters across the country, moves adoptable dogs, like Dawn, from communities with high pet populations and not enough homes to animal shelters, like the Humane Society of Boulder Valley in Boulder, Colo., where adoptable dogs are more in demand.

While the euthanasia of animals is on the decline across the county, the pit bull population continues to grow, leaving more and more of these animals to languish in our shelters or be euthanized without ever knowing the warmth of a home or the love of a family.

Too many pet owners do not have their pets spayed or neutered, and this has resulted in an immense population growth leaving many animals homeless in Kitchener and across Canada.

To directly address the pet population crisis, we work to bring affordable and accessible spay / neuter surgery, vaccination and microchipping services to companion animals in low - income areas across the U.S.

Official records from health departments and animal control agencies across the country show that the number of dog bites have plummeted to historic lows, despite the significant increase in both the human and dog population.

Too many people do not have their pets spayed or neutered, and this has produced an explosive population growth resulting in many homeless animals in Delaware and across the United States.

Animal shelters across the nation are forced to stretch their resources to the brink to accommodate an overwhelming population of homeless and at - risk animals.

Although the precise duration that an animal spent in a particular disease stage could not be determined based on the voluntarily nature of the examinations and the widespread distribution of the study population across several continents, repeated examinations were used to provide a rough estimate of disease progression.

In fact, war in the Congo has directly resulted in crisis level food insecurity (= increased demand for meat from killing forest animals including bonobos), countless numbers of displaced people who pose added burdens on demand for food, rife levels of corruption and mismanagement, immeasurable but vast numbers of weapons and munitions distributed across the country, large - scale break down of traditional taboos that may have locally protected some populations of bonobos, and much, much more.

The animals are all at their lowest population levels across the entire planet entirely because of us.

Gradually changing a climatic parameter until some biological threshold is exceeded for most individuals and populations of a species across its geographic range — for example, increasing ambient temperature past the limit at which an animal can dissipate metabolic heat, as is happening with pikas at higher elevations in several mountain ranges (Grayson, 2005).