Sentences with phrase «dangers to other species»

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It is even more difficult to provide convincing evidence of the dangers to life caused by the rapid extinction of species and by other forms of ecological damage.

In forests, there is a constant danger of a stray branch damaging the eyes, and so other ape species may have evolved deep - set eyes to reduce the risk of injury.

Though Martinsen and Schall are quick to note that they anticipate little danger to people from this newly discovered deer malaria, it does underline the fact that many human health concerns are connected to wider ecological systems — and that understanding the biology of other species is a foundation to both conservation and public health management.

Some, such as the sceptics S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, see no danger at all, maintaining that a warmer planet will be beneficial for mankind and other species on the planet and that «corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate».

Fortunately, zoo biologists have recognized the dangers to these and many other species, and species survival plans have been developed for many.»

The list is almost endless, but there are plenty of both types (cone) or species (flamingo) that could pose a danger to other display organisms.

Anytime any species becomes over populated it is a danger to other animals, plants, etc..

The danger then becomes that if the geoengineering effort should ever falter, a century's worth of warming could hit us all at once, far too rapidly for human society and other plant and animal species to adapt.

The article covers the research work of McCauley, a partner on Global Fishing Watch, a joint project between Ocean, SkyTruth, and Google, led a study in Science that outlined how this approach could mitigate overfishing, illegal fishing, and other dangers to vulnerable marine species.

But a very real danger exists that this ruling might inform other actions by the judiciary in the Phillipines, and that has direct implications for «Golden Rice», a species of rice modified to include beta carotene, which could help supply vitamin A to the 190 million children and 19 million pregnant women in 122 countries who suffer vitamin A deficiency (VAD), a type of malnutrition that kills 1 — 2 million people a year and causes 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness.

This misalignment, if you will, means that either chimpanzees (and gorillas, dolphins, whales — other creatures the NRP has in its sights) will need human agents, with all the dangers of projection of human needs and desires on to their nonhuman «clients», or that law itself would have to change into something... other, something capable of bridging species, a rather daunting proposition.