Sentences with phrase «feral pigs on»

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.

This resulted in a strategy that would require the removal of the feral pigs on Santa Cruz Island beginning in 2004, in a project implemented by the NPS and The Nature Conservancy, its partner in management of Santa Cruz Island.

Feral pigs on Santa Cruz Island and deer and elk on Santa Rosa Island were introduced almost 70 years prior to island fox decline, therefore, the golden eagle most likely did not seek these animals as alternative prey.

By the mid-1990s the thousands of feral pigs on the island became a factor in the decline of island foxes.

Not exact matches

«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.

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

On Santa Cruz island, non-native feral pigs be pushing the islands unique and endangered.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

In this process, a predator, like the golden eagle, feeds on at least two prey, for example, the island fox and feral pigs.

Unfortunately, a number of these have been the victims of continued golden eagle predation, but with January 2007 seeing the removal of all the feral pigs, it is hoped that there will be less motivation for any golden eagles to remain on the island (11).

When I posted on The Perennial Plate's episode on finding wild food in New Mexico, I noted that it was an all together gentler affair than the previous weeks» footage of feral pigs being trapped and slaughtered.