Sentences with phrase «feral pigs»

His latest novel is based on recent events on the islands and the controversy surrounding the killing of feral pigs.

Now experts are saying rogue hunters are illegally spreading feral pigs even further for sport.

Thanks to a skyrocketing population of feral pigs on the islands, the newly - arrived golden eagles were well fed — though they also developed a taste for the little foxes.

In 2011, Germany, France and the Netherlands experienced an outbreak of E. coli that was ultimately traced to the consumption of contaminated sprouts, which was thought to be caused by feral pigs in the growing area.

These are the thoughts of Mirra — the camera - wielding, vegetarian half of The Perennial Plate — whose foodie road trip around the US has explored a halal slaughterhouse in Queens, trapping and killing feral pigs in Texas and rooftop farming and community gardening in New York.

I wonder if the same explosive reaction will be exhibited, and expletives uttered, by the usual suspects about the Feds» plan to kill feral pigs from helicopters.

The recent removal of feral pigs from Santa Cruz Island was beneficial for Santa Cruz Island gopher snakes.

Note: This lecture was a presentation of the park film «Restoring Balance: Santa Cruz Island,» which focuses on a recent effort to save the island fox, reestablish bald eagles, eliminate non-native feral pigs, and relocate golden eagles as part of an island - wide restoration project.

«The most cost - effective measure we could take is the control of feral pigs at a cost of $ 2 million per annum in targeted location across the Basin, as they have a negative impact on both native plants and animals,» she said.

Controlling feral pigs is the most cost - effective strategy to help save 148 endangered plant and animal species in the Lake Eyre Basin, and is just one of the significant findings of a three - year study led by QUT applied ecologist Associate Professor Jennifer Firn.

When feral pigs were introduced to the islands, they attracted golden eagles that preyed on both pigs and foxes.

Lohr and Lepczyk [1] explain that their 6 pre-identified stakeholder groups «have been involved in previous cases of conservation conflict in Hawaii,» although it's clear from Lohr's dissertation [5] that these previous cases involved only feral pigs (Sus scrofa) and axis deer (Axis axis).

Introduced mammal species include feral pigs, cats, rats, deer, cattle, the Santa Cruz sheep, and the Catalina Island bison herd.

Despite these efforts, feral pigs continue to pose a great threat to skunk populations as their rooting destroys skunk dens.

Skunks are specialized in their resources and therefore sensitive to competition with feral pigs for invertebrate foods.

The golden eagle replaced the bald eagle and began to feed on feral pigs following the decimation of the local bald eagle population due to DDT exposure in the 1950s — the bald eagle would have deterred the golden eagle from settling on the islands while it subsisted on fish.

Feral pigs destroyed habitat for snakes and preyed on them as well.

Feral pigs facilitate hyperpredation by golden eagles and indirectly cause the decline of the island fox.

From foraging for geoduck through eating roadkill to trapping feral pigs, Daniel and his vegetarian camera person Mirra often explore what it means to take a life in order to eat.

All 5,036 feral pigs on Santa Cruz Island appear to have been removed; there has been no sign of a pig since January 2007.

On Santa Cruz Island, olive is spread by feral pigs and by birds.

Yesterday I posted a rather divisive video on trapping and killing feral pigs in Texas.

In the latest episode of The Perennial Plate — the same folks who brought us video of trapping and killing feral pigs, and alternative dairy farming — Daniel and Mirra pay a visit to Northern California.

The recent removal of feral pigs from Santa Cruz Island should improve habitat for harvest mice, which may become more widely and densely distributed on the island.

According to previous research by Galetti's group, feral pigs and cross-bred pig - boars are a public health hazard because they have become a major source of food for vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) and have thereby fueled an increase in this rabies vector.

«There were also many sightings of invasive animals, such as the feral pig (Sus scrofa), which in Brazil is a result of interbreeding between Eurasian wild boars and domestic pigs and has become a pest in several regions,» Beca said.

Major culprits in the decline of Hawaiian biodiversity are introduced species such as weeds and feral pigs that prey on the natives or flourish in the absence of predators.

Feral pigs, native to Eurasia and North Africa, now root in the lawns of San Jose, California.

Inmates have therefore built 12 miles of fence to enclose about 4,000 acres of upland koa - «ohi`a forest, and state and federal workers have shot and removed most of the feral pigs inside the fences.

To scientists, for instance, feral pigs are contributing to the desturction of several species of silversword, a majestic relative of the sunflower that blooms once in a profusion of purple, then dies.

In other cases, such as the zebra mussel and feral pigs, only control cost data are collected.

The invasion of non-native pest species (rodents, feral pigs, insects) represents a significant global threat to biodiversity.

The most cost - effective strategy is the management of feral pigs, at approximately $ 2 million (average annualised cost) in specific locations within the Basin.

Invasive mammalian predators (clockwise from top left): feral dog, house mouse, stoat, feral pig, feral cat, brushtail possum, black rat, small Indian mongoose and red fox (centre).

The breed thrived in the South where it was used as a hunting dog for bringing down feral pigs.

In addition, the park is home to numerous red kangaroos and emus, and a fair number of feral goats, European rabbits, and feral pigs, all of which would provide opportunities to assess the effects of dingoes on a variety of bird and mammal species.

Serologic data show that a significant number of feral pigs, bears, and cervids are exposed to T. gondii.

He's lucky there's no foxes on the island, and over the past eight years he's eliminated the feral pigs.

They relocated reluctant golden eagles, bred the foxes in captivity, removed the feral pigs, and brought back bald eagles, whose absence had allowed the more rapacious golden eagle to feast on the foxes.

[2] The future of skunk populations on Santa Rosa Island is expected to be positive due to the eradication of feral pigs in the»80s.

The National Park Service eradicated the feral pigs on Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz islands during the 1990s and on Santa Catalina Island in 2007.

The hunt club used the ranch houses at Scorpion and Smugglers to house guests who came to hunt the feral pigs and remaining sheep.

Feral pigs are being removed from Santa Cruz Island as part of a joint project conducted by the National Park Service and the Nature Conservancy.

The feral pigs on Santa Rosa were exterminated by the National Park Service in the early 1990s, which removed one of the golden eagle's food sources.

[2][12][page needed] They also were able to eliminate the last of the feral pigs by 2006.

[2] Shrub cover has increased since the removal of Santa Cruz sheep (1980 — 91) and feral pigs (2005 — 07) from Santa Cruz Island, which may increase the fire risk.