Sentences with phrase «endangered population»

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

The Critically Endangered population of stick insects remaining on Balls Pyramid is protected as part of the Lord Howe Permanent Park Preserve.

Grupo Tortuguero is a grass - roots conservation organization working to protect and advocate for endangered populations of sea turtles.

Church and others, though, argue that de-extincting animals sparks the imagination in ways that merely maintaining endangered populations doesn't.

4) Create networks that share health data — Foster sharing of health data among experts within and across wild carnivore range countries, to vastly increase our understanding of disease impacts on endangered populations, and enable proactive and reactive responses when and where they are needed most.

The high mutation rate in mtDNA plus ovarian selection thus provide a powerful tool for humans (and animals) to adapt to an environmental change, without endangering a population's overall survival.

There is, thus, hope for other endangered populations, fighting similar demographic issues,» Dr Orlando concluded.

Despite the observation of CDV contributing to declines in several endangered populations, many uncertainties remain about the threat that it poses.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Jairo II campaign, defends endangered populations of turtles...

There's also a critically endangered population of about 130 animals in the western Pacific.

A TRAFFIC survey found body parts from an estimated 23 Tigers on sale in Sumatra, where the Critically Endangered population of Tigers is believed to number fewer than 500 animals — the last Tigers left in Indonesia.

The belugas are part of an endangered population that is the focus of a binational conservation effort that includes Shedd Aquarium.

While the first, aforementioned, project is focused on the best way to provide services and goods to endangered populations, the second project focuses on protecting civilians from harm.

Eight kits, including offspring of Scarface, were born recently, significantly increasing the gene diversity of this endangered population that a dedicated team is working to recover in the wild.

«Demographic compensation may buy these endangered populations some precious time for climatic conditions to improve or to allow evolutionary processes to help the plant adapt to unfavorable conditions.»

«Losing 1 % of an endangered population is pretty significant,» says corresponding author Denise McAloose, Head Pathologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in The Bronx, New York.

Twenty - mile castaway fishnets snare sea turtles, dolphins, and other animals, endangering their populations; birds mistake trash for food, eat it, and die; jellyfish get sick; gnarly junk washes back to shore — some of it hazardous waste.

The study helps to solidify our understanding of the ecology of this endangered population, and will be useful for continuing to prioritize recovery efforts.»

Salmon are the primary summer food source for an endangered population of killer whales in the Pacific Northwest, according to an analysis of fish DNA in killer whale feces published Jan. 6, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Michael Ford from the National Marine Fisheries Service and colleagues.

In this study, the authors used genetic analysis of fecal material collected in their summer range in the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest, to estimate the diet composition of an endangered population of wild killer whales.

The effects of density dependence do not protect an endangered population from the impacts of a multi-host pathogen, such as CDV, where they coexist with an abundant reservoir presenting a persistent threat.

In 2011, our research focused on understanding the nutrition of belugas in Bristol Bay relative to the endangered population in Cook Inlet.

These devoted people help maintain the health of island foxes and move quickly when disease threatens this endangered population.

The island fox, which only a short time ago was on the brink of extinction, provides an instructive example of how a coordinated, organized and highly focused strategy was able to reverse the certain extinction of an endangered population.

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

This coordinated, organized and highly focused strategy was able to reverse the certain extinction of an endangered population.

Not only does this afford the opportunity to study these endangered populations but it also exposes the world to their plight.

The first baby orca of 2010 has been born to J pod on January 3, boosting an endangered population of killer whales that needs every birth it can get.

Found as a stray in Seattle, Tucker proved he has an unmatched talent in helping scientists research an endangered population of 85 killer whales that frequent the area.

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.