Sentences with phrase «declining wildlife populations»

Declining wildlife populations has exacerbated child slavery in Ghana, Somali piracy and the illegal ivory trade

At the same time, state conservation officials were worried about declining wildlife populations.

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Hillary, a volunteer at Long Pasture in Barnstable, has for the past four years organized a scientific survey through the wildlife sanctuary to document declines in horseshoe crab populations.

Although considered one of the most successful predators on Earth due to the high kill - rate their cooperative hunting achieves, African wild dog populations are declining due to pressures including habitat loss and human - wildlife conflict.

«This «cryptic» nature of infectious disease witnessed amongst Darwin's frogs in Chile could potentially be causing similar «slow - burn» declines among wildlife species elsewhere — contributing to longer - term population declines and extinctions despite the lack of obvious mass - mortalities.»

Mr William Symes, a PhD student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, who led the study, said, «Increasing our understanding of the drivers of international wildlife trade is critical as unsustainable harvesting of wildlife can lead to population decline and the extinction of species.

In fact, the decline in HAT in countries such as Gambia and Nigeria may be mainly due to the reduction in wildlife habitats and populations in the last decades, the authors write today in PLOS Computational Biology.

In their survey on wildlife losses, published in Science last year, Rudolfo Dirzo, a biologist at Stanford, and colleagues, reported that terrestrial vertebrates are showing a «25 per cent average decline in abundance» and that «invertebrate patterns are equally dire: 67 per cent of monitored populations show 45 per cent mean abundance decline.

There are no studies that show conclusively that pet cats are responsible for declines in wildlife populations.

So the cat populations maintain or increase for decades, and bird and other wildlife populations never get any relief from predation but just keep declining indefinitely.

Fact: While cats are predators by nature, responsibility for the decline in bird and wildlife population falls squarely on the shoulders of the human species.

Some people believe cats just don't belong outdoors, that they live miserable lives there, and that they're responsible for the decline of bird and wildlife populations.

Although some groups blame cats for a decline in bird and wildlife populations, these claims are incorrect.

Thanks to wildlife protections for mountain lions and flourishing populations of «urban» coyotes and other meso - predators, LA and neighboring counties have record declines in homeless pets.

He says overall, the number of birds and small animals being killed are high enough that cats and their hunting could be causing some wildlife populations to decline in some areas.

According to Taylor Ellis, wildlife technician for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the plover's threatened status is linked to development, human population growth, and human activity that has caused a decline in its nesting habitat.

The International Conservation Union, in its latest red list of endangered wildlife, gave polar bears threatened status in May, projecting a decline of 30 percent by midcentury from current populations, mainly due to projected losses of sea ice in a warming world.

It's a whimsical design that tackles an important issue in its own small way: with various wildlife populations declining around the world, it will be essential for humans to figure out how to include concrete ways to boost local biodiversity in the design of sustainable buildings today, and for the future.