Sentences with phrase «endangered birds from»

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UK regulations made pursuant to the EU Birds Directive (originally enacted in 1979, which you can read in its latest amended and consolidated form here) aim to protect endangered bird species and habitats, but do not prescribe any rules about cats or housing or distance from development.

The study, by researchers at University of Wisconsin - Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, focused on a nest - protection program that was based on the logical assumption that endangered birds would reproduce and prosper if people are kept away from their nests.

Meanwhile, Floyd Reed, a biologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, has been working on a different kind of drive system called underdominance to prevent the Culex mosquitoes introduced to Hawaii from spreading avian malaria to endangered birds, including the Hawaiian honeycreeper.

He adds that the same applies to other endangered species of tropical tree with large fruit and seeds dispersed by birds, as evidence from other fragmented tropical forests around the world shows that seeds of this kind are dispersed only locally.

Results from a study of endangered New Zealand hihi birds (Notiomystis cincta), published in Evolutionary Applications, showed that bachelor males who don't hold breeding territories, known as «floaters», could help maintain genetic diversity and decrease the likelihood of inbreeding by sneakily fathering chicks.

«Just weeks ago, Thomas Deir, from the Artists in the School program, and the fourth - grade class completed a beautiful painting of our wetland in our community that focuses on our endangered wetland birds,» said Kanemori.

Working with staff at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, fifth graders from the East Palo Alto Charter School track predators of the clapper rail, an endangered bird, in a nearby salt marsh.

He also writes about those who study the birds and struggle to preserve the endangered species, which has dwindled in numbers from some 150,000 to less than 25,000.

Since there is no evidence that cats are a species - endangering threat to any of our bird species, there's no foundation for calls to remove and / or kill outdoor cats from the American landscape.

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.

Cape May, New Jersey is one of North America's prime bird - watching spots, and bird lovers have been trying to protect the endangered shore birds like the piping plover from feral cats on the beach.

-LSB-...] May, New Jersey is one of North America's prime bird - watching spots, and bird lovers have been trying to protect the endangered shore birds like the piping plover from feral cats on the beach.

On your fully escorted Costa Rica tour you can expect to possibly see many of the rare Costa Rica wildlife species in their natural habitat including everything from the endangered sea turtles, quetzal birds or scarlet macaw, to the elusive Jaguar, tapirs, or 2 and 3 toed sloths.

It's renowned for its vast diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, from three - toed sloths and endangered white - faced capuchin monkeys to hundreds of bird species.

In June 2007, the bird's recovery prompted its removal from the Endangered Species list.

As you would expect from an island with unspoilt terrain, Stewart is home to many species of bird including 20,000 of the endangered brown kiwi, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi and the nearly extinct kakapo parrot.

Aside from seaweed farming the island's main trade Nusa Penida is the unofficial bird sanctuary for the critically endangered Bali Starling and many other species.

Lately, the island's best known as the new sanctuary of the once endangered Bali Starling following a highly successful captive breeding program of the bird, which is originally an endemic species from the forested region of West Bali National Park.

From the friendly Royal Bengal Tigers of Bandhavgarh National Park and the endangered Single - horned Rhinoceros of Kaziranga that hold 2/3 of their population to the World Heritage birding paradise Keoladeo National Park.

Aside from seaweed farming — the island's main trade — Nusa Penida is the unofficial bird sanctuary for the critically endangered Bali Starling and many other species.

From sloths, coatis, agoutis, raccoons, deer, iguanas, snakes, colorful frogs and exotic birds to all four species of monkeys in Costa Rica — white - faced capuchin, howler, spider, and a unique endangered species of red - backed squirrel monkey — there's nothing more magical than seeing these animals in their natural habitat.

They're plumes gathered by Hope Sandrow of Southampton from rare Paduan birds that live and lay their eggs freely in her ongoing project «Open Air Studio,» a habitat this conceptual artist created to protect an endangered species.

It features the largest seabird gathering site in the world, with more than 14 million birds from 22 species, nearly all of the remaining endangered Hawaiian monk seals, Hawaiian green sea turtles and Laysan albatrosses.

The bateleur, which gets its name from the French word for tightrope walker, is found most often in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe — but don't count on seeing one: Population estimates for these endangered birds place the current number at 75 percent fewer than in the early 1900s, and 50 percent less in the last 30 years.

Wind turbine installations butcher millions of birds and bats annually, but are exempt from Endangered Species Act fines and penalties.

Wind turbine companies, officers and employees, however, are immune from prosecution, fines or imprisonment, regardless of how many rare, threatened, endangered or migratory birds and bats they kill.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

However, the targeted coastal plain hosts migratory bird species and endangered wildlife and is considered to be sacred to the indigenous Gwich «in people, who sustain themselves from the caribou that migrate there.

And, of course, after decades trying to protect wildlife from oil spills and other calamities, we must avert our eyes as windmills annually massacre millions of birds, many of them supposedly protected as endangered species.

Wind and solar companies have been exempted from endangered species laws, to protect them against legal actions for destroying wildlife habitats, birds and bats.

Several bird species are under attack from the feral cats, like the endangered Japanese wood pigeon.

The bird had been reclassified in 1995 from endangered to threatened; the Interior Department made the recovery official today by striking off the eagle from the list of threatened species under the species - protection law.Nearly 10,000 bald eagles now soar the skies above the contiguous 48 states, compared with a documented 417 in 1963, when the bird was on the brink of extinction everywhere except in Alaska and Canada.

The sanctuary states, «Today, Pandemonium is one of the largest bird sanctuaries in the US, and we are among the few groups addressing the issue of birds disappearing from the wild and from aviculture by conservation breeding of endangered species.