Sentences with phrase «bear populations»

Recent estimates suggest a 60 % reduction of the polar bear population by the year 2050.

Between 2010 and 2014, the city's foreign - born population grew by nearly a third.

Understanding this connectivity will help wildlife managers to maintain the corridors needed for healthy bear populations.

The comparable share for the Canadian - born population rose a more modest two percentage points over this period, from 73 per cent to 75 per cent.

And suggestions that polar bear populations worldwide have grown are of uncertain sources and poorly documented.

But it's not just the foreign - born population seeing declines in homeownership in the last few years.

They found that almost all the samples were genetically similar, suggesting the cave bear population was small, isolated and therefore vulnerable.

And yellow shows regions whose polar bear population numbers have been guessed.

If polar bears are endangered by global warming, why have bear populations more than doubled in the last 50 years?

Figure 2: Global polar bear population status assessment even better than this.

While legal immigration has remained steady, growth in the foreign - born population slowed in the 2000s, reflecting a net loss of undocumented immigrants.

On the serious side, the analysis did address a mystery of a more scientific nature regarding the evolution of these local bear populations.

The same is true of polar bear populations as it is of sea ice extent and air, sea and surface temperature.

Polar bear populations in most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) must be booming, as they are elsewhere.

An innocent study of brown bear populations in Bulgaria has found that the country's former communist leader was not one to look a gift bear in the mouth.

(Yes, Romania has one of the largest brown bear populations in Europe, second only to Russia.)

Many animal - rights activists and conservationists oppose bear hunting, arguing that it puts black bear populations in danger.

The Park and Preserve protect over 9,000 years of human history and support the largest protected brown / grizzly bear population on Earth, numbering over 2,000.

So how to explain the increase in the polar bear population from 5,000 in 1950 to 25,000 today, as documented by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service?

Polar bear population estimates for Western Hudson Bay have recently become contentious because one specialist has been making statements that confuse the issue.

There is good information on the foreign born population of every county in the United States (and for that matter, every census tract), which is broken down by age as well.

In a letter to the Radio Times, Nigel Lawson of the Global Warming Policy Foundation rebutted many of the series» claims, including the one about the polar bear population falling.

He was a recent speaker (from 37.20) at the 2011 Heartland Institute conference, and can be counted on to produce a contrarian take on any particular issue that anyone might care about — ranging from climate, to mercury in fish and polar bear population dynamics.

In the end, the scientists wisely punted on presenting a conclusion about the polar - bear population trend for six of the 19 subpopulations they now believe exist, saying the data was «deficient» in these areas.

«In fact, a study looking at the genetic and morphological variability of Asian Black Bear populations throughout the geographic distribution of the species is yet to be conducted, and it would surely yield exciting results,» Gutiérrez said.

«It would be nice to have a mechanistic and quantitative understanding of how bear populations respond to the variation in salmon population,» explains Chris Darimont, chief scientist with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation (RCF) and conservation ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

I also sought input on the video from Linda Gormezano, a biologist affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History who's been studying the western Hudson Bay bear population in recent years:

Between 2000 and 2014, the increase in the foreign - born population raised the total housing value in the Buffalo area by $ 964.5 million.

She says research published earlier this year shows bear population expanding from traditional ranges in the Southern Tier.

Many states successfully manage bear populations and reduce conflict through non-lethal measures such as public education, trash management, and game officers using rubber pellets and loud noises to frighten bears away, instead of killing them.

At first, they thought the animals had migrated from surrounding countries, so they collected samples from the Carpathian Mountains in Romania, where a separate brown bear population lives.

Carsten Nowak, a wildlife geneticist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Gelnhausen, Germany, and his colleagues were investigating this brown bear population when they found some strange results.

Linda Gormezano, a biologist at the American Museum of Natural History, has been studying the polar bear population along the western shore of Hudson Bay.

The rebounding of polar bear populations over the past several decades has been a huge success story.

Although they compose a small percentage of the total bear population, their impact is catastrophic.

If you prefer to go with reality, here's the good news from Susan Crockford, who puts the global polar bear population at a very healthy 26,000.

John Helliwell, a University of British Columbia economist who co-edited the report, told The Washington Post that the most surprising finding researchers came across was «the extent to which happiness of immigrants matches the locally born population.»

Changes were then made to immigration law to reduce admissions, decreasing the foreign - born population until it fell to about 9.6 million by 1970.

On one hand, on a host of social issues, Muslim immigrants in Europe tend to be more conservative than native born populations, and tend not to be particularly socialistic in their economic policy views.

Fuller says this information will go a long way in helping the state deal with a shifting bear population.

«The indirect effect of salmon is that they support abundant bear populations that then disperse a lot of fruit,» Levi said.

«It is possible that Svalbard may have provided one such important refuge during warming periods, in which small polar bear populations survived and from which founder populations expanded during cooler periods,» argues biologist Charlotte Lundqvist of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, who is a co-author of the new study.