Sentences with phrase «for endangered populations»
Grupo Tortuguero is a grass - roots conservation organization working to protect and advocate for endangered populations of sea turtles.
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Thus has life been endangered not only for the poor, but for all sectors of the human population and for many of the creatures with which we share the earth.
Throughout the essays are scattered references to everything from ozone depletion to recycling strategies to the effects of American pet shops on the population of parrots in New Guinea — and recommendations of particular courses of action: Aeschliman's commendation of conservancy strategies, for instance, through which churches purchase endangered land to ensure preservation.
The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»
That they are endangered in many places in Central America, but Belize has the healthiest population of jaguars in the region because Belize has so much intact forest; there is a habitat for them.
The bi-national operation was the first scientific rescue and release attempt for the endangered St. Lawrence Estuary (SLE) population.
The awardee is Carolyn Mostello, a coastal waterbird specialist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mass Wildlife) who has devoted her career to restoring populations of federally endangered roseate terns and other island nesting species in Buzzards Bay.
The species was assessed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2009 after more than two decades of population studies indicated that its numbers had plummeted by more than 99 percent over three generations.
The Bronx Zoo is dedicating this year's Run for the Wild fundraiser to save an endangered penguin population native to South America.
The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.
The variation between eastern diamondback populations could provide crucial information to authorities managing the conservation of this species, which is in decline and under consideration for listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
The US Endangered Species Act requires federal biologists to keep close tabs on pelican populations for the first five years after delisting.
These insults have whittled their population down 90 percent of its level from 45 years ago and put the species on the critically endangered list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Furthermore, as more populations are declared protected, and more and more species are listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the demand for forensic testing in wildlife cases is sure to increase.
«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.»
Nevertheless, the demand side grows fastly with booming population growth and urbanization, while the supply side is more endangered with increasing water scarcity due to global change, limited phosphorus reserves and vast amounts of energy required for nitrogen production.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the whorled sunflower, Short's bladderpod and fleshy - fruit gladecress for protection under the Endangered Species Act because populations of the three are dwindling to critical levels.
These results have major implications for management strategies aimed at the recovery of Northwest Atlantic loggerheads and the projected recovery rates of this population, which is considered threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) from endangered to vulnerable, on the basis of a 2011 — 14 population survey by the Chinese government that reported 1,864 adult pandas, up from 1,596 in the early 2000s.
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 population of the critically endangered large primate known as the drill (Mandrillus leucophaeus) has been largely reduced to a few critical habitat areas in Cameroon, according to a recently published study by researchers with the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research.
The animals» surprising genetic history could affect how they are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), which does not have any provisions for protecting genetically mixed populations.
In a year filled with news of devastating population losses among frogs, bats, bees, shorebirds, and salmon, researchers in August reported good news for at least one endangered species: the western lowland gorilla.
Inhabiting India and Southeast Asia, fishing cat populations are declining, and the species is considered endangered because of habitat loss and hunting for food and fur.
Such a loss is devastating for a population that has been proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
Aditya Joshi, a researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Trust and an author on the paper, says, «Conservation of corridors and forest areas outside of the protected area network is critical for long - term demographic and genetic viability of many endangered species and future growth and recovery of tiger populations.»
Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature does not consider the spotted, spinner, and bottlenose dolphins endangered, the scientists say the organization's classifications don't reflect what is happening to these insular populations — which, they say, urgently need monitoring and management.
The mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates) population, for example, has declined to less than a hundred birds, making it critically endangered.
A comprehensive review (pdf) by the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that shrinking sea ice is the primary cause for the decline seen in these populations, and it recently proposed listing polar bears as threatened (pdf) under the Endangered Species Act.
As the result of our settlement, in 2013, the Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the Mono Basin sage grouse, along with a proposed designation of 1,868,017 acres of critical habitat (at a point at which the population had declined by up to 70 percent).
It shows that this sliver of snow leopard habitat we're working to protect in Mongolia is a suitable home for this endangered cat, and could support a healthy population.»
Its return to the Arctic could provide new habitat for endangered species, help temper climate change, increase the population of elephants in the world, and bring excitement and a reframed sense of what is possible to conservation.
As a result, understanding changes in population size for social species — several of which, such as African wild dogs and southern resident killer whales, are endangered — requires understanding of what goes on within groups and how individuals fare when they strike out on their own.
Eventually there will be no need for the chimeras and surrogate parents, once the captive population has reached a size that individuals can be removed for wild release without endangering the continuance of the flock we will have reached our goal of a viable captive population.
There is, thus, hope for other endangered populations, fighting similar demographic issues,» Dr Orlando concluded.
Our work, apart from providing the first estimates of vital rates and other population characteristics of the endangered snow leopard, reiterates the value of long - term monitoring of both abundance and population dynamics for conservation planning and action.
We report, for the first time, the population trends and vital rates of the endangered snow leopard based on camera trapping over four years in the Tost Mountains, South Gobi, Mongolia.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Sarina Jepsen, Endangered Species Program Director, (971) 244-3727, [email protected] Scott Hoffman Black, Executive Director, (503) 449-3792, [email protected] Early data from Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count suggests a small increase in butterfly numbers in some parts of the overwintering range Populations of monarch butterflies are still far below historic numbers PORTLAND, Ore., December Read more...
The plight of Lonesome George provided a catalyst for an extraordinary effort by the government of Ecuador to restore not only tortoise populations throughout the archipelago but also to improve the status of other endangered and threatened species.
He was recognized as a Fellow of the AAAS for his «outstanding contributions to the understanding of the maintenance of genetic variation in the persistence of populations and the preservation of rare and endangered species.»
He is Director of Genetics at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and oversees research efforts in cell culture and cryobanking, cytogenetics, population genetics, conservation breeding, evolution and systematics, and applications of genomics technologies to conservation efforts for managed and wild populations of threatened and endangered species.
Contributors to the 2008 South Florida Environmental Report claim, «feral cats... have contributed to a 50 percent decline in populations of Hugh Hefner's rabbits (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri, an endangered subspecies of marsh rabbit named for Hefner's contributions to their research) on Big Pine Key (CNN.com, accessed May 20, 2007).»
This project will also enhance and expand habitat for the southernmost continually - returning natural population of endangered Coho salmon in the western United States that is on the brink of extinction.
The goal of the project — begun in 2009 and estimated to take four years to complete — is to make the creek a functional, self - sustaining ecosystem once again by realigning the creek; restoring wetlands, an intermittent tidal lagoon, and dunes; and also creating and maintaining habitat for sustainable populations of the endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout.
Threatened or Endangered: Yes Population: Whereas in the 1940's, coho salmon in California were estimated to number between 200,000 and 500,000, today's population is estimated to have fallen to 1 percent of historic levels, and the coho of the Central California Coast are considered to be at high risk for extinction.
The waters are a habitat for the largest population of seahorse in the world, fish, and endangered chameleons.
Overpopulation of feral cats brings the potential for disease to the human population and poses a problem for native and endangered birds.
This endangered species has its greatest population in Belize for any country in its range, and they are often seen somersaulting and swimming upside down.
Pursuant to CFR title 36 1.5 (c)- Determination - this restriction action is necessitated for the protection of the islands unique values, ecological systems and protection of breeding populations of marine mammals, endangered species of seabirds, eagles, islands foxes and other unique and rare species of flora and fauna inhabiting the Channel Islands National Park.
Pathogen exposure in endangered island fox (Urocyon littoralis) populations: Implications for conservation management.