Sentences with phrase «for wild sheep»

And they cite success in the Indian Himalayas, where farmers leave land for wild sheep, upon which the snow leopards depend.

Himalayan herders are rewarded for setting aside pastures for wild sheep — a food source for snow leopards — and insuring against loss of their livestock.

Not exact matches

They're looking for a sheep - herding dragon - slayer, the One who can put all the wild things under His feet.

The wild sheep are available only on the rocky summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii, which also offers the best ranges for pig, pheasant and chukar.

The study shows that farmers need to protect their livestock from jackals even when similarly sized wild prey (small antelopes) are available because of their preference for sheep and goats.

«On the basis of morphological and metrical analysis of the faunal remains from Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A hunter - gatherer deposits, we can document that wild sheep would have inhabited the local environment year - round and formed an important resource for the human population to target for food.

Just imagine a band of savages, exhausted from searching for nuts or chasing wild animals, suddenly grazing for the first time at a fruit - laden orchard or a pasture full of sheep.

A recent study also showed a herd of wild Soay sheep in the Outer Hebrides had decreased by five per cent in the last 24 years for exactly the same reason.

Calabrians use the mountainous area covering most of the region to raise hill - loving pigs, goats and sheep and comb the woods for chestnuts, acorns and wild mushrooms to add rustic flavors to their cooking.

Oddball cult film about a mutant sheep that attacks a small modern - day town whose residents for some reason dress in Wild West gear.

Those dogs were used by local people for herding yak, sheep and to protect the villagers from ferocious wild animals like leopard, wolf etc..

It is, and we must address it, just as we must address the threat posed by all invasive species that stifle threatened local native species - both introduced ones like cats, rats, foxes, rabbits, pigs, mynah birds (I've given up hoping cattle and sheep farming will ever be addressed, and I've had the Man From Snowy River quoted at me often enough by misty eyed horse lovers to know the wild brumbies must continue to run free and destroy the mountain country for everything else before dying a horrible, slow death from starvation in the cold, Winter snow) and native ones like noisy miners and eastern rosellas.

They were responsible for herding cattle, herding sheep, guarding livestock and families from thieves and wild animals, helping on the hunts and as hog catchers.

Our Catahoulas have been used for Search and Rescue, Narcotics Detection, herding cattle, horses, and sheep, as well as hunting deer, moose, squirrel, raccoon, wild hogs, black bear, and mountain lion.

Stop to hike along the way and keep an eye out for wild Argali sheep, ibex, desert gazelles, and golden eagles.

A day's drive from York, for example, will take you through stretches of wild, heather - covered moorland, ablaze with colour in the fall; or past the steep, sheep - dotted mountainsides of the Dailes, in which isolated hamlets are scattered.

Wildlife enthusiasts will love this Valley — world class bird watching, bighorn sheep on Radium's main street, whitetail and mule deer wandering Invermere's downtown, black and grizzly bears in the backcountry, wild turkeys in farmer's fields all add up to something for everyone to see and discover.

Grazers like cattle, sheep and goats help or hinder wildlife depending on factors like the wild animal's size and need for vegetation cover

A recent study also showed a herd of wild Soay sheep in the Outer Hebrides had decreased by five per cent in the last 24 years for exactly the same reason.