Sentences with phrase «conservation concern»

Despite both species being recognised as of conservation concern under international, regional and national plans, very little is known about their populations or biology and hence vulnerability to anthropogenic threats.

Instead, throughout the exhibit the emphasis is on how artists are responding to growing conservation concerns in terms of seeking solutions through new and imaginative existential approaches.

Giving important information about areas of potential botanical and ecological interest, this trend is supported by the high level of conservation concern among the newly described species.

This work identifies areas of conservation concern for Mesoamerican jaguars and underscores the importance of large - scale genetic monitoring efforts when prioritizing conservation and management efforts for this near - threatened, and elusive, carnivore species.

An additional 184 are species of conservation concern because of their small distribution, high threats, or declining populations.»

This includes consideration of the value of open lands for grassland and shrubland - dependent wildlife, many of which are in decline in the state and are of high conservation concern.

Researchers have demonstrated that mammal biodiversity loss, a major conservation concern today, is part of a long - term trend lasting at least 125,000 years.

Thus there may be many well - intentioned and earnest sportsmen at Tanforan, say, or Hialeah who consider conservation the concern only of some kind of nuts who probably want to turn all the nation's race tracks into refuges for the whooping crane.

The experts attending the Bronx Zoo - hosted Vaccines for Conservation: Exploring the Feasibility of Protecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectious diseases:

Crops like alfalfa provide critical habitat for the Long - billed Curlew, the largest shorebird in North America and a species of continental conservation concern.

«Hybridization between Mottled Ducks and Mallards is a significant conservation concern in the southern U.S.,» according to waterfowl expert and Auburn University emeritus professor Gary Hepp, who was not involved in the study.

The Prairie Warbler, for instance, a perky yellow bird with streaked sides, has been designated a species of conservation concern following range - wide population declines.

In the ocean, tunas and sea turtles are current conservation concerns because of this intense pressure.

Yet crucially, parks agencies and local communities have become dependent on tourism funding, and much of it pays for work that keeps poachers at bay — the key conservation concern for Bengal tigers.

But, perhaps because of conservation concerns more desperate than those on the mainland, there's an unsettling tendency to «interpret» scientific evidence in a way that will implicate cats regardless of a study's actual results.

The property provides important habitat for a number of threatened marine species, harbouring a number of species of conservation concern including the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), and the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) as well as endemic and migratory birds which reproduce in the littoral forests of cayes, atolls and coastal areas.

Conservation concerns made it very difficult to persuade owners of Hesse's work — institutional and private collectors alike — to part with them even for a tour of only three venues.

We used an integrative approach to assess the impact of elevated water temperature on two fishes of immediate conservation concern in a large estuary system, the threatened longfin smelt (Spirinchus thaleichthys) and endangered delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus).

But since most solar thermal companies are being forced by water conservation concerns to turn to it, only builders of PV projects, which can offer no significant storage, gain a competitive advantage.

These forests in Idaho, Oregon and Washington state are habitats for species of particular conservation concern, including Lewis's woodpecker, the flammulated owl, the white - headed woodpecker and Williamson's sapsucker.

The report, published Feb. 8 in the journal Biological Conservation, found that oil palm plantations along the Kinabatangan River in Malaysia's Sabah state were dominated by wide - ranging terrestrial frog species of little conservation concern.

Scientists estimate that 30 percent of plant species are now of conservation concern in just the United States alone.

With only 90,000 breeding individuals sparsely distributed across 15 states in the U.S., the Swainson's warbler is a species of high conservation concern that, for decades, has left conservationists with little confidence that its populations would ever be fully secure.

Although it is not yet possible to show a definite trend, the analysis provides clear evidence that illegal trade in Tigers, their parts and products, persists as a major conservation concern, says TRAFFIC.

The Burrowing Owl is already a species of conservation concern because modern agricultural practices have removed the prairie dogs and ground squirrels that it depends on to provide nesting burrows.

«There are more than 350 species of conservation concern in the Sagebrush Sea, of which 60 are listed or candidates for listing under the Endangered Species Act — walking away from the sage - grouse for political expediency could condemn many of these other species to the same imperiled fate down the road.»

Earlier that year, Australia's government had set in motion the Frost Inquiry into whaling, in response to conservation concerns and community campaigning.

These projects target habitats of priority species of conservation concern, and include dam removals, invasive species management, wetland restoration, and more.

Alan Jarrett, Chairman of BASC said: «I welcome the RSPB and scientists» endorsement of pest control as a key action that benefits species, many of which are already of conservation concern, and which could further suffer from climate change.

«As an ecologist, I love working on species of conservation concern,» he says.

Golden eagles are a species of conservation concern, so understanding population - level differences and how individuals interact with turbines is key to meeting a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service target of no net loss to their populations.

«This paper highlights the potentially huge impact merit releases have on a few birds that are easily caught and are already of conservation concern,» says John Pilgrim, a conservation consultant who specializes in Southeast Asia and Melanesia and who was not involved in the study.

«These data are essential for setting and prioritizing marine protection for these species, which are both of conservation concern,» said study co-author Matthew Witt of the University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Unit.

Once heavily hunted for turtle meat — alligator snapper was the main ingredient of Campbell's Turtle Soup in the 1960s — the riverine populations have been deeply depleted and are of conservation concern.

This is a bull trout, a popular fish species of conservation concern, that find shelter in mountain stream climate refugia.

But the threat of canine distemper extends well beyond lions and tigers, and the virus has impacted a number of the world's other carnivores of conservation concern, including the highly endangered Ethiopian wolf and African wild dog, as well as the black - footed ferret in North America, to name just a few examples.

The standard management response to natural disturbances such as windstorms and insect outbreaks is salvage logging, or the removal of affected trees; however, this may have detrimental effects on species of conservation concern.

«We have shown that, on the face of it, there are indeed far fewer marine species of conservation concern; but much of this can be explained by the fact the conservation status of fewer marine species has been formally assessed.»

«And ringtails are similar to fishers in that both are semi-arboreal and of conservation concern.

However, it is worth remembering that all these species are classed as Birds of Conservation Concern, and the Herring Gull is on the Red List.

«This is a leap forward but it doesn't change the conservation concern [about] emperor penguins and many other species,» says penguin expert P. Dee Boersma of the University of Washington, Seattle.

This suite of techniques indicates promise for restoring vegetation and species of conservation concern in a wider range of degraded and disturbed habitats.

Golden eagles are large - ranging predators of conservation concern in the United States.

Environmental and conservation concerns are pushing others to go with the 2/32» and «don't be stupid» when driving in the rain.

The predation by feral cats includes federally protected species of conservation concern, as well as more common species.