Sentences with phrase «endangered big cats»

Their birth is great news because: «Snow leopards are among the world's most endangered big cats with an estimated 3,500 - 6,500 remaining in the wild.

So while this is a momentary cause of celebration for the critically endangered big cats, let's not forget that the government that enabled it is still one of the most ruthless and oppressive in the world.

All those hotels and shops built within the protected areas for the tourists are cutting down on actual forest habitat for the endangered big cats.

«Canine distemper confirmed in Far Eastern leopard, world's most endangered big cat: Canine distemper virus discovered in two - year - old female Amur leopard found in Russia's Land of Leopard National Park.»

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said it needs another year to study the endangered big cat's potential range north of the border before deciding on a protected area

This World Wildlife Day, we promised participants of the Big Cats Team Challenge we would donate funds to conservation projects that protect endangered big cat species.

(AP)-- China and other Asian nations should shut privately run tiger farms as they are inhumane and fuel demand for the endangered big cat's bones and skin, the World Bank said Thursday.

Not exact matches

Celebrate World Wildlife Day at the Franklin Park Zoo with special talks and Q+A sessions about endangered animals, big cat crafts, and more (Boston)

Genetic tests show that the panthers in Everglades National Park are not true Florida panthers at all, but descendants of South American cousins released into the wild years ago, biologists say.And they warn there's a threat these cats will eventually mix with the few surviving pure - bred panthers, found mostly in Southwest Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, effectively removing the U.S. government's need to keep them on the endangered - species list.Genetic testing of panthers in South Florida, where almost all of the 50 or so cats left in the state live, show two distinct families.

According to the findings, wearable tech for animals of all sorts — dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, livestock and endangered species — will be the next big thing for monitoring security, behavior, medical diagnosis and treatment.

If you've always wanted to own one of the dangerous and powerful big cats, but don't want to risk endangering your life, you may want to consider a domestic cat breed that looks like the deadly black panther, the Bombay.

Contributors to the 2008 South Florida Environmental Report claim, «feral cats... have contributed to a 50 percent decline in populations of Hugh Hefner's rabbits (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri, an endangered subspecies of marsh rabbit named for Hefner's contributions to their research) on Big Pine Key (CNN.com, accessed May 20, 2007).»

While it's true that feral cats do pose a threat to endangered birds, the bigger threat comes from a disasterous loss of habitat caused by indiscriminate development.

Meet with a researcher from the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Cheetah Metapopulation Project, a project managed by National Geographic Big Cats Initiative grantee Vincent van der Merwe.

Families can see the endangered black howler monkey at the Community Baboon Sanctuary, big cats like pumas and jaguars at the Belize Zoo (an animal sanctuary), or hike through Cockscomb Basin Reserve to see Baird's tapir, Belize's national animal.

Snow Leopards are among the most endangered of the world's big cats, but now Tibetan monks are giving the leopard hope.

Endangered species such as the Florida Panther are nearing extinction because of the numbers of big cats hit by automobiles each year.