Sentences with phrase «for animal resources»

Philippe Baneux, Director of the Center for Animal Resources and Education, Attending Veterinarian

The Cornell Center for Animal Resources and Education (CARE)- A service and a resource to the Cornell research and teaching community providing high quality animal care and veterinary services.

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The animals and all the resources of Earth are fodder for our use.

For the good boy, it takes most of his emotional resources to keep that animal contained.

Organic production is an overall system of farm management and food production that combines best environmental practices, a high level of biodiversity, the preservation of natural resources, the application of high animal welfare standards and a production method in line with the preference of certain consumers for products produced using natural substances and processes.

Raising livestock is immensely resource intensive; with more than ten billion animals raised for food annually (not including fish), the required amount of fresh water, grains, grasses — and medically important antibiotics — is simply staggering.

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

Perhaps surprising is that these firms are targeting meat eaters, not vegans or vegetarians, and they are doing so by focusing on the need for the entire population to cut down on animal consumption to conserve valuable water and land resources.

This stimulated micro-invertebrate populations, which support wetland and riverine food webs, increasing food resources for fish, frogs, turtles, waterbirds and other animals.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

You would be amazed at what service projects and groups are out there doing things that you never knew about — dolls and bears made up to be the the weight of your baby (Molly Bears), stuffed animals made out of your baby's clothing and blankets, peer support and parent advocates waiting to help the newly bereaved, personalized jewelry makers (like My Forever Child), stone painters, heart sewers, pillow - making people (Heaven Born for miscarriage), memory - box makers, authors (there are books for almost every subject on this topic waiting to be discovered), research and education groups, story - sharing sites, support groups, chat groups, blogs, Facebook groups, foot / hand print kits, music and funeral planning resources... Consider starting here before starting something new.

Get this award - winning set of Learning Resources Jumbo Jungle Animals for $ 11.10 (regularly $ 29.99).

During this engaging program students will listen to a guided imagery story while sitting in a natural setting; learn the life cycle of a bird through imaginary play and determine what makes a good home for specific native animals as they explore and compare the resources available in forest and field habitats.

For more than 50 years, Shedd Aquarium has devoted people and resources to helping animals in urgent need.

For example: natural resources system, economic system, animal health system, animal protection system, education system, infrastructure system and so on.

The exercise titled, «Towards Conservation of Livestock Resource and Animal Protein for Citizens of Kano,» was part of activities marking the 2017/2018 livestock vaccination programme.

Once born, a zoo animal takes resources to maintain, and maintaining genetic diversity is an important and legitimate consideration for a breeding program.

«Our biggest goal is to support the management of this non-curable disease in an animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the study.

Aardvark burrows: a potential resource for animals in arid and semi-arid environments.

In 1993, in recognition of the seriousness of the threat, the Ivoirian government, represented by the Ministère d'Agriculture et des Ressources Animales (Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources), and in close cooperation with the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (a German development bank), GTZ, WWF, and the Dutch organisation TROPENBOS, set up the «Projet Autonome pour la Conservation du Parc National de Taï» (Autonomous Project for the Conservation of the National Park of Taï, PACPNT).

Hunt says some scientists have proposed that the energy animals devote to developing these traits may limit the resources they have available for survival, particularly when something in their environment changes.

Many of these animals are fierce predators that sit atop the food web, but Laidre's team found that they are also important subsistence resources: Arctic people hunt nearly 80 % of the studied populations for food and other uses.

High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug - of - war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources — the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, such as enhanced seeds and naturally derived cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

«The region's savanna landscapes provide critical resources for both people and animals.

An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for scarce food in the desert often face a similar dilemma: How long should they look for more of their needed resource before they move on to look elsewhere?

When looking for scarce food resources, animals might traverse random paths as they search through their grazing terrain, or move to new territory.

The DNA code also represents a rich resource for addressing questions on phylogenetic relationships between animals.

If an animal uses most of its resources for reproduction, it can't use them to grow.

But even the little that is known about the natural history of Africa argues that to exchange the wide spectrum of 20 to 30 hoofed animals, living in delicate adjustment to their habitat, for the narrowed spectrum of three ungulates exotic to Africa — cattle, sheep and goats — is to throw away a bountiful resource and a marvelous ordering of nature.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Despite its fruitful adaptations, the crop has gotten its share of flack for consuming precious water and nutrient resources, especially as its acreage has increased to meet biofuel and animal feed demands.

«If animal rights groups continue to pursue the use of laws in ways they were not originally intended, I'm concerned that universities may be forced to expend additional resources to counteract these unwarranted legal attacks,» says Frankie Trull, president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research in Washington DC, which defends animal experiments.

It's not clear what would happen to the rest of NCRR's portfolio, which includes support for construction and instrumentation, primate centers and other model animal resources, and grants for minority institutions and states that don't have much NIH funding.

The warmer weather patterns have implications for animal species up and down the region, including Punxsutawney Phil and his fuzzy brethren, said Paul Curtis, a professor of natural resources and Cooperative Extension wildlife specialist at Cornell.

This is the first example of adaptive evolution triggered by interspecies introgression in domesticated animals, which gave us a clue that introgression event between divergent species may be an important resource for evolutionary adaptation and could largely facilitate this process.

For example how quickly plants and animals can reproduce, how well species are able to compete with other species for resources, and what kinds of food species can eat or habitat they can live in,» said Dr EarFor example how quickly plants and animals can reproduce, how well species are able to compete with other species for resources, and what kinds of food species can eat or habitat they can live in,» said Dr Earfor resources, and what kinds of food species can eat or habitat they can live in,» said Dr Early.

«People are competing for fewer and fewer resources and the animals are worse off... especially with civil strife,» Craig Hilton - Taylor, head of the Red List, told Reuters.

Investigators also have a variety of specialized resources for testing virus infectivity in various bugs and animals, sequencing viral genes and imaging pathogen structures.

In compiling its report, the commission drew on data from the National Peatland Resource Inventory, drawn up by Richard Lindsay of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland to conclude that there are 67 000 hectares of surviving raised peatland in Britain, but that no more than a tenth of this is close to pristine condition, with a full range of plants and animals and water tables undamaged by drainage.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

Berg's ongoing battle to defend NIH's National Center for Research Resources, which provides resources like large instruments and animal models, has burnished his image among many scientists who were alreResources, which provides resources like large instruments and animal models, has burnished his image among many scientists who were alreresources like large instruments and animal models, has burnished his image among many scientists who were already fans.

The lineage of most of the bulls in current Holstein herds, for example, can be traced back over a hundred years to just a few bulls, said Liu, who worked with Ti - Cheng Chang and Yang Yang, both former post-doctoral fellows in animal science at Penn State, and the late Ernest Retzel, National Center for Genome Resources.

David Elder, director of the Office of Surveillance and Compliance in the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said during an earlier press conference that the agency relies more on testing and approving animal foods and drugs before they are put on sale, rather than on routine inspection due to «limited resources.»

The $ 1.3 billion center, which funds biomedical resources such as large instruments and animal models, is slated to have its programs spread among other NIH institutes on 1 October under a controversial plan by NIH Director Francis Collins to create a National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).

Now researchers working on canine cancer have an authenticated resource similar to what's available for human cancers,» says Daniel L. Gustafson, PhD, CU Cancer Center investigator and director for basic research at the Flint Animal Cancer Center.

It is time for a global awareness campaign to alert us all to the ways we encourage the slaughter of endangered animals, the dubious trade in scarce natural resources and the terrorisation of vulnerable people.

In addition to preserving the genetic diversity of endangered species, the centre will act as a resource for researchers who are developing IVF and other breeding technologies to assist endangered animals.

That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that, by failing to incorporate new technologies like satellite and aerial imaging, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species has misclassified the threats to hundreds of animals.

For example resources that aid in the development of animal models.

IDMIT is an infrastructure for preclinical research in infectious diseases and immunology which is certified ISO9001 and which includes 1) A large animal facility with capacity to host NHP in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, 2) State - of - the - art laboratories for cell biology, immunology, molecular biology, flow cytometry and mass cytometry (CyTof), cell - sorting and confocal microscopy in BSL3 containment; 3) A biological resources centre with high storage capacity; 4) Highly innovative technologies for in vivo imaging of large animals in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, including a two - photon microscope, a PET - CT facility, and several optic based technologies (fibered endo - microscopy, near infra - red imaging).