Sentences with phrase «for wild tigers»

Then I noticed that Leonardo DiCaprio had re-tweeted my recent suggestion that Apple, which has long named its Macintosh operating systems for the tiger and other wild cats, help conserve the world's last few dozen havens for wild tigers.

Dignitaries and participating organizations pledged new support for controls on poaching, efforts to limit tiger - human clashes in populous areas and steps to conserve habitat, with money coming both from the 13 countries where tigers still roam and nations whose citizens desire a world with room for wild tigers.

That finding is profoundly disturbing for wild tigers, given that in most sites where wild tigers persist they are limited to populations of less than 25 breeding adults.1

Not exact matches

Are you hoping for a candidate who thinks like a wild animal, such as a wolf or tiger, since those animals operate with a laser focus?

«And it also appears to be a relatively new threat to tigers since blood samples from wild tigers prior to 2000 tested negative for antibodies to the virus.»

Using tissue samples from five wild Amur tigers that died or were destroyed due to neurological disease in 2001, 2004, or 2010, McAloose and her colleagues proved that infection with CDV, a type of morbillivirus, is to blame for the deaths of two of the tigers and caused a serious infection in a third.

Zoos are the only places where white tigers exist: Treasured for their enigmatic coats, they've been hunted to extinction in the wild.

And yet, based on your article, for a long time we haven't even been able to accurately tell how many there were in the world — wild tigers, obviously, not those in captivity.

Taylor Swift showed off her wild side by donning a tiger - striped catsuit for Dianna Agron's circus - themed birthday party over the weekend...

Cast: Noah Noah's Wife Sons: Shem, Ham Japheth Shem's wife Ham's wife Japheth's wife Wild valley people including: Tribe leader Jeerer 1 Jeerer 2 Jeerer 3 Cruel woman and child 2 Peasants Wild deer and hunter Specific Animals: Raven Dove (s)(for creative dance sequence) 2 Monkeys 2 big cats (lions or tigers etc) 2 elephants Singers (Selected singers will be costumed and face painted as animals of your choice)

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

Listen as Mills tells how she followed the trail of this story and found the unintended consequences to wild tigers that were created by allowing the breeding, raising and slaughter of tigers for tiger bone wine and other gourmet treats.

In the wild, dominant cats including those of the Panthera genus, such as lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars that are competing for territory often do not bury their excrement as a way of signaling that they want to claim a particular area.

Stand in awe of the Taj Mahal's perfection, wander the French Quarter of Pondicherry, search for tigers in the wild — experience the iconic highlights of the North before flying south for even more culture and wilderness.

If you appreciate wild life and relish the opportunity of spotting a tiger while cruising through sensational scenery then this is for you.

Sail along the sacred Ganges River in Varanasi and explore Abhaneri's carved stepwells in the North before flying south to search for tigers in the wild and exotic spices in relaxed hill stations.

Enjoying a jungle safari at this park allows for open sightings of tigers, sambar, chital, nilgai, chinkara, wild boar, sloth bear, hyena, jackal and leopard.

As the Beast Master, you'll be able to tame wolves, jaguars, sabertooth tigers, owls, badgers, and more wild beasts to be at your side during combat, for both attacking and distracting enemies.

For example, there are 62,500 as many Overwatch players in world as there are Sumatran tigers left in the wild.

The major exhibitions of the 1980s (Palazzo delle Esposizioni di San Marino, 1983 and Guggenheim in New York, 1989) were characterised by a pictorial practice that took on increasing significance, becoming «long and fast», a natural habitat for wild, «prehistoric» animals such as the rhinoceros, crocodile, tiger, bison, owl, all of which were also bearers of a clear primacy.

In this video, WWF explains how consumer demand for tiger parts and furs have led to a decrease in wild tiger populations from around 100,000 to just an estimated 3,200 today.

For the moment, this study concludes, the monetary value of a dead tiger far exceeds what the public appears willing to pay to have them remain alive in the wild.

NEW DELHI, March, 28 2011 — The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world's remaining wild tigers.

I was doing my damnedest to help save the lives of the wild orangutan living in the peat forests of Borneo when I caught wind of another man doing the same in Sumatra, for the tiger.

This is no small part because some Twitter user named @LeoDicaprio led a nomination blitz Tuesday night in recognition of my recent focus on the relatively low cost of conserving wild tigers (and a possible role by a successful company that names its operating systems for tigers and other big cats).

Such traditional medicinal practices, known to threaten primate species as well as tigers and bears, also pose a shocking danger to wild dogs: Half of all known wild canid species, including two endangered ones, are harvested for use in folk treatments.According to the BBC, a team of researchers led by Professor Romulo Alves of the State University of Paraiba in Brazil «found evidence that canids are used in the treatment of at least 28 medical conditions, including asthma, arthritis, back ache, bronchial illnesses, chicken pox, eczema, epilepsy, flu, kidney diseases, measles and mumps, as well as the treatment of stomach complaints, snake bites, and warts.»

And a legal market in China could give poachers across Asia an avenue for «laundering» tigers killed in the wild, especially as farmed and wild tiger products are indistinguishable in the marketplace.

12:04 p.m. Updated A study just published in the journal PLos Biology, «Bringing the Tiger Back from the Brink — The Six Percent Solution,» lays out a smart strategy for stanching the decline of tigers in the wild driven by relentless poaching for skins and the Asian trade in extracts and body parts.

The paper, «A landscape - based conservation strategy to double the wild tiger population,» is being published in Conservation Letters and is fully available online for the time being.

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In November 2011, a wild Amur tiger was captured on camera for the first time in an area of northeastern China — a key finding for the breeding and resettlement of the tiger population in the region.

John Bryant, CEO of snack food giant Kellogg's, found himself in hot water last week on a quarterly earnings call when one investor took the company to task for its part in destroying vital Indonesian peatlands that store vast amounts of climate - polluting carbon, and rainforests home to the last 400 remaining wild Sumatran tigers in the world.

A shocking decline in the Russian Federation's wild tiger population highlights the importance of eliminating trade in and demand for tiger parts, the International Tiger Coalition (ITC) said today.

Rabinowitz makes two points which really make you sit up: 1) conservation groups really need to be held accountable for their efforts at big cat conservation, and 2) even with massively reduced habitat tiger populations could be ten times higher than they are today.Rabinowitz says that the world's 2500 - 3000 wild tigers live on just 5 - 7 % of their former range, but even that small about of remaining habitat «could probably hold up to 30,000 tigers right now at reasonable densities.»

Lowest Genetic Diversity of Any Tiger Population By sampling DNA from the cat's droppings, the team determined that the genetic diversity among Amur Tigers is the lowest ever recorded for a wild population of tigers.

Poaching: a side - industry Workers who distill the oil deep in the jungle also often rely on poaching rare animals (tigers, pangolins, peacocks, pythons and wild cats) for food or for extra income on illegal wildlife markets.

Wanting to tap into the power of crowdsourcing, a team of researchers at the UK's University of Surrey have built the Wildsense Tigers app for iPad that pulls tourist photos from Flickr and Instagram as well as biologist's camera trap feeds and uses facial recognition and location data to compile a more complete census of tigers in the wild.