Sentences with phrase «by wildlife biologist»

Nicholas Soames, the junior agriculture minister, tells me that the Fraddam case, reported to the local ministry office on 8 June, was immediately investigated by a wildlife biologist from the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service.

To find out whether pesticides are taken up by amphibians even in relatively pristine areas, a team led by wildlife biologist Donald Sparling of the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, tested Pacific treefrogs in several national parks.

«Buddy» was the nickname given by wildlife biologist Amanda Shufelberger, who works for Sierra Pacific Industries, a lumber company.

But the studies done by wildlife biologists on cat predation are, I'm sorry, lousy.

One of the reasons that the «scientific» papers put out by wildlife biologists have been so bad is that they are trying to cobble together conclusions from inadequate data.

Selective quoting is important, as Mr. Wiegand has a constant refrain that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has engaged in a 28 - year long cover - up of wind farm mortality, and believes that the very carefully worked out wildlife mortality counting methodologies employed at wind farms — methodologies developed and vetted by wildlife biologists, avian preservation groups and the wind industry — consistently undercount avian mortality.

• With steel traps, wire snares and poison, agency employees have accidentally killed more than 50,000 animals since 2000 that were not problems, including federally protected golden and bald eagles; more than 1,100 dogs, including family pets; and several species considered rare or imperiled by wildlife biologists.

Not exact matches

It is apparently a myth that lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping of cliffs, according to wildlife biologists who have studied the rodents.

Thomas is a wildlife biologist by training, but he now uses technology such as satellite remote sensing and software applications such as geographic information systems to model vector disease transmission.

Today upwards of 1,600 gray wolves roam the six - state region, exceeding wildlife biologists» expectations by a factor of five.

Judging from aerial surveys, sporadic reports by hunters and ranchers, and signals from the few animals wearing radio collars, state wildlife biologists think there are now more than 500 wolves here.

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

In this week's issue of Science, a team led by Peres, now a wildlife biologist, has shown it for the first time.

First was the pipeline, a megaproject that challenged biologists to come up with habitat - protecting measures for fish and wildlife along a 1000 - km corridor of disturbance caused by construction.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

In the new study, a team lead by Isabelle - Anne Bisson, a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of disease in humans.

In fact, only a dozen people have been killed by cougars in the US over the past century, maintains wildlife biologist Paul Beier — and it is the cougar that is at risk.

That's what archeologists, wildlife biologists, and wetlands scientists who have gotten funding from a little - known transportation program will face with shrinking federal support if a massive highway bill approved by the U.S. Senate becomes law.

Norway's first CWD case was detected by chance after wildlife biologists working in the rugged mountains of Nordfjella found a sick young reindeer on 15 March 2016.

One study led by Allender and first - year veterinary student Marta Rzadkowska and published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases, reveals which disinfectant treatments — used by veterinarians and wildlife biologists to prevent the spread of infection — work against the fungus.

As production of shale gas soars, the industry's effects on nature and wildlife remain largely unexplored, according to a study by a group of conservation biologists published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on August 1.

They occasionally prey on livestock, and wildlife biologists believe this behavior could be exacerbated by scavenging on livestock carcasses that die from various causes.

This workshop is designed to train biologists and conservation activists to advocate for wildlife in the decision making process by providing the best available scientific evidence in an effective manner.

These people seem perplexed by a community's willingness to adopt TNR («In the end,» lament Lepczyk et al., referring to the decision in Athens, GA, «the professional opinion of wildlife biologists counted no more than that of any other citizen, a major reason for the defeat.»

In another study, a team led by Smithsonian wildlife biologist Peter Marra radio - tagged 69 gray catbird chicks and fledglings in the Washington, D.C., area.3 Predators nabbed nearly half the birds, and cats were the number one predator.

Wildlife biologists seem to discount those studies because most of them were performed by scientists who are not wildlife biologists.

We're leading a movement to overcome local and national challenges caused by free - roaming cats, bringing about change by conveying the most current scientific information, promoting science - based policies, and working with diverse stakeholders such as animal shelters, veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators, and conservation biologists.

According to TWS, the «workshop [was] designed to train biologists and conservation activists to advocate for wildlife in the decision making process by providing the best available scientific evidence in an effective manner.»

«Because western society's orientations toward wildlife is becoming more moralistic and less utilitarian,» explain the authors of a study recently published online in PLoS ONE, «conservation biologists must develop innovative and collaborative ways to address the threats posed by feral cats rather than assuming wholesale removal of feral cats through euthanasia is a universally viable solution.»

The managed colony and TNR approach is highly controversial and strongly opposed by many conservationists, wildlife biologists, veterinarians, and animal welfare groups.

One bride - to - be chose to honor her recently passed father, a former park wildlife biologist at Glacier National Park, by saying her wedding vows in her local national park.

Marine biologists are on board to inform and educate you about local wildlife and to ensure whales remain for generations to come by supporting the Pacific Whale Watch Association guidelines for responsible Victoria whale watching.

The May «From Shore to Sea» lecture focused on the return of bald eagles to the Channel Islands with an exciting talk by eagle expert and wildlife biologist Dr. Peter Sharpe of the Institute for Wildlife Studies (IWS).

A Facebook post by the environmental journalist John Platt directed me to an excellent Twitter list of — at last count — 89 conservation biologists, journalists, educators and other people focused on using new communication tools to foster wildlife conservation and animal welfare.

The work, led by Kashmira Kakati, a wildlife biologist, and financed by the Government of Assam and a group of conservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing the findings.

I've read one testimonial after another by frustrated, grief stricken wildlife biologists forced to abandon a species in need due to these inhumane, archaic laws.

Re your statement «If you were a wildlife biologist you who know a crow or raven will not eat another dead crow or raven» — Are you claiming that crows and ravens are the only birds killed by wind turbines?

However, it was not until the 1997 discovery of antibodies to Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) in a high percentage of emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chicks at Auster Rookery (through research led by Australian Antarctic Division veterinary biologist, Heather Gardner), that disease in Antarctic wildlife was connected with the presence of people in Antarctica.

Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300 to 400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast — marking a sharp escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

Vincent Nijman, the conservation biologist who authored the report, argues that current regulations on the legal wildlife trade are too lenient and lack the resources necessary for realistic enforcement.Southeast Asia is a hub for the international wildlife trade; an industry fueled by globalization and increased economic prosperity in the region.

Even if the water is perfectly safe for drinking, it could still kill wildlife by accumulating in higher densities in the food chain, says Felix Smith, a retired biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who spoke with Water Deeply.

As a wildlife biologist I am of course dying to know what kind of spider it was your hubby got bit by!