Sentences with phrase «caused by the livestock»

Globally, it's thought that 6 % of all greenhouse gas emissions are caused by livestock.

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They have a role to play in sustainable livestock production by preventing waste and inefficiencies caused by disease, and help provide a safe supply of food from healthy animals.

• The State Emergency Operations Center has received reports that several farms were impacted by the flood waters causing a large number of dead livestock and potential hazardous waste material due to those deaths.

According to him, this will prevent clashes between nomadic livestock herders and crop farmers as well as protect the environment from degradation and pollution caused by open rearing and grazing of livestock.

Almost one in six people worldwide are infected by parasitic worms, while parasitic infections of livestock cause economic losses of billions of Euro per year.

Farmers will probably continue to insist on culling, Streicker notes, because even uninfected bats can harm livestock by causing festering wounds.

The findings also call into question other suggestions for using titanium dioxide for environmental remediation — for example, to remove odor - causing organic compounds from emissions produced by confined livestock feeding operations.

The study shows that increased deforestation, fertilizer use and livestock methane emissions are likely to cause GHG from food production to increase by almost 80 %.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), have created the first comprehensive, cross-species genomic comparison of all 20 known species of Leptospira, a bacterial genus that can cause disease and death in livestock and other domesticated mammals, wildlife and humans.

Background: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, is an important livestock disease raising public health and economic concerns around the world.

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

(b) The claim for damages to livestock, in addition to being governed by Part 3 (commencing with Section 900) and Part 4 (commencing with Section 940) of Division 3.6 of Title 1 of the Government Code, shall be accompanied by a statement by the local animal control officer relating to the probable cause of death of the animal and by proof submitted by the owner of the livestock to establish the value of the animal.

Intense livestock grazing, especially by huge herds of sheep, was the initial cause of the frequent fire regime disruption in many places.

The climate case for such a suggestion has been well - covered by now, but a quick refresher: Livestock is responsible for 14.5 percent of the world's human - caused emissions, nearly half of that coming from the resources needed to grow and ship the corn and soy that most of the animals eat, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

We have seen in Kenya how the detrimental impact of climate change is further compounded by local environmental degradation caused by deforestation, illegal encroachments, and livestock grazing.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

Crops have been failing, livestock dying, and people are being hit by high food prices — causing severe malnutrition across for millions of people.

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In contrast, environmental specialists employed by two other United Nations specialized agencies, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, have developed a widely - cited assessment that at least 51 percent of human - caused greenhouse gas is attributable to livestock.

The report indicates that livestock products are also responsible for more greenhouse gases emissions than most other food sources, which are caused by feed production, enteric fermentation, animal waste and land - use change.

(Land use changes, such as deforestation and desertification caused by over-pasturing livestock or growing feed crops, account for another 35.4 %, while manure accounts for 30.5 %).

But in most city laws and regulations livestock in the city is often severely restricted due to perceived associated health or environmental risks (e.g. zoonosis) and the fear for complaints for citizens living close to the livestock keepers (flies, odour, noise) or due to problems caused by free roaming animals.