Sentences with phrase «critically endangered population»

WWF and other organizations campaigned to stop an offshore oil drilling platform from being built in that critically endangered population's habitat.

The calf belongs to a critically endangered population of beluga whales.

Critically endangered populations of hammerhead and oceanic white tip sharks have plummeted by 70 % and 99 % in the North Atlantic respectively according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

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The species was assessed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2009 after more than two decades of population studies indicated that its numbers had plummeted by more than 99 percent over three generations.

These insults have whittled their population down 90 percent of its level from 45 years ago and put the species on the critically endangered list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

In 2012, research by FFI and partners led to the species being formally designated as critically endangered due to its small population size and threats from hunting and habitat loss.

Ultimately, the scientists will examine a variety of populations — from threatened species to those that are critically endangered — to explore the full implications of the model.

Põdra hopes they will start a new population and help save the European mink, a critically endangered species whose population in Spain is down to 500.

The once common Hooded Vulture was uplisted to critically endangered in 2015 because of drastic declines in populations across Africa.

The population of the critically endangered large primate known as the drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) has been largely reduced to a few critical habitat areas in Cameroon, according to a recently published study by researchers with the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research.

While this species was previously classified as Endangered, the gorillas are now listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species based on this new population estimate.

The best of the news items covers the critically endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), probably the rarest cat species on the planet, with a wild population of approximately 40 to 50 individuals.

Meanwhile Russia has announced the preliminary results of a count of its Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) population: it has found that between 400 and 450 individuals of the critically endangered tiger subspecies roam there.

It is critically endangered with a population of ~ 100 wild and ~ 10,000 captive individuals in Zhejiang and Anhui Provinces.

«New population of critically endangered dryas monkeys discovered: Dryas monkeys found in remote central Congo basin.»

Using remote sensing cameras and sound recorders, researchers from Florida Atlantic University are the first to capture rare video footage of a newly discovered population of critically endangered monkeys in one of the most remote regions in the world.

The mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates) population, for example, has declined to less than a hundred birds, making it critically endangered.

The critically endangered black rhino had no real predators until men armed with guns happened along, reducing its population from an estimated 100,000 to below 2,500 in a remarkably short time.

There was a big fall in the fox population and an immediate resurgence of native birds and mammals like the tammar wallaby, the critically endangered brush tailed bettong (also known as the woylie) and the western ground parrot.

This practice has since been stopped, but the disruption this caused to reproduction and social systems is believed to have significantly affected the San Clemente Island fox population and contributed to its current Critically Endangered status (13).

October 15, 2015 More than 1 % of critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal population has received life - saving care thanks to The Marine Mammal Center

JA And a new film The Great Silence (2014), centers on the world's largest radio telescope, located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, home to the last remaining wild population of a critically endangered species of parrots.

The ecosystem of Namibia's Etosha National Park harbors one of the largest populations of the critically endangered black rhinoceros.

Once native to several countries around the North Sea — and now only one (sub) species population surviving — and critically endangered — in the Pyrenees.

Conservationists from the NGO OuTrop surveyed the land, and recognised numerous important plant and animal species, such as the globally significant population of the endangered Bornean Orangutan and the critically endangered white - shouldered ibis.

The North Atlantic population is now extinct, due to overhunting; the Western North Pacific population is critically endangered; the East North Pacific population has recovered significantly and was removed from the US endangered species list in 1994.

Those successes include the monumental task of eradicating invasive species, establishing a «backup» population of Laysan Teal, a critically endangered species of duck, bringing the threatened Short - Tailed Albatross back to the island through years of playing sound recordings and setting up decoys and conducting scientific research from monitoring carbon dioxide levels in a a world - wide study to analyzing marine debris washed up on the beaches to understand marine pollution.

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Since IAPF took over security operations in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, not one rhino has been poached and the population of critically endangered black rhino has increased by 133 % since 2010.

«Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are critically endangered and the majority of hawksbill habitat use and movement research to date has been centred in the Wider Caribbean and Indo - Paciï ¬ c regions... As recently as 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.»

«With a population of perhaps fewer than 50 individuals [in the wild], the species is critically endangered.

While there are between 2,000 and 4,000 Golden Lancehead snakes on the island — one of the largest population densities of any snake species — it is actually a critically endangered species.