Sentences with phrase «from animal conservation»

I have no issue with Cool Whip as it tastes completely different from fresh whipped cream, and I'm totally willing to take the abuse from my animal conservation friends for occasionally eating Oreos.

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Researchers from Zoological Society of London, Panthera and Wildlife Conservation Society conducted the study and reported that nearly 91 percent of cheetahs have been driven out of their historic range because people have been hunting the animal's prey.

Jaymi Heimbuch (@jaymiheimbuch) focuses on wildlife conservation and animal news from her home base in San Francisco.

Revenue generated from product sales goes to farmers implementing prescribed animal - friendly conservation measures.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V.

Shedd Aquarium, Chicago's most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announces the election of four senior executives from leading local companies to its Board of Trustees: Julie Andreeff Jensen of Citadel; Jerry Krulewitch of McDonald's; Andrew P. Nocella of United Airlines; and Richard Tobin of CNH Industrial N.V. Continue Reading >

Tickets are from # 17, and filling the 3,500 - seat venue would help towards much - needed finance for the animal conservation charity.

«If everyone complied with the Forest Code and refrained from hunting wild animals, São Paulo could easily show by example that biodiversity conservation and agricultural production can prosper side by side,» Galetti said.

But everything we're learning from the human and animal genome projects, about the conservation of neurochemistries and the neuroanatomies, all of this points me to the conclusion that we are learning about ourselves when we study these little critters.»

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

But while a decade - long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

I like to be out and sit and watch animals and write their biographies and so forth, but right from the beginning, I was fortunate to work with mentors who were interested in conservation.

Dr Martin Stevens from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus said: «As far as we know, this is the first time that research has demonstrated through the eyes of a predator how individual animals from the same population can tune their camouflage to match different backgrounds.

Pleistocene rewilding — a proposal to bring back animals that disappeared from North America 13,000 years ago — offers an optimistic agenda for 21st - century conservation

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

Hammerhead sharks, which have recently received new protections from the UN Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, are experiencing drastic population declines in excess of 90 % in several parts of world.

From that moment on, Dollar dedicated himself to the study and conservation of an animal he had never seen.

But a new paper in the journal Conservation Biology calls out a troubling side effect: Some tags can be accessed by people who don't have the animals» best interests at heart, from hunters and poachers to antipredator groups and even nature tourists.

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

This research was funded primarily by a variety of grants from the Morris Animal Foundation, University of Minnesota, Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, and a PharmacoNeuroImmunology Fellowship through the National Institutes of Health.

Wolslegel works with conservation organisations and US law enforcement agencies to snare illegal hunters using robotic decoys made from real animal parts with electronics hidden inside.

In a surprising and innovative move, the delegates also agreed that scientific findings from animal behavior research — including the concept that some cetacean species have cultures — should be considered in conservation decisions and strategies for these marine mammals.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

What sets it apart from other books on conservation is that it shows that, in addition to accumulating data on the animals, we have to come to terms with the complex mixture of science, greed, indifference, and cultural differences that have to be tackled if animals like the panda are to be saved.

«These findings help us understand risks to these animals from human sound and inform timely conservation and management decisions.»

To find out, in 2004, Fernando, his colleagues from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, and DWC began monitoring those animals that the wildlife department identified as «problem elephants.»

Though the overall picture is bleak, scientist also point to signs that conservation efforts are bringing back from the brink some animals previously facing annihilation.

A conservation effort to save a species of wild horse in Mongolia also saw that animal being bumped from from extinct in the wild to «critically endangered.»

Saiga antelope populations plummeted due to poaching by over 95 percent in just 20 years — from nearly 2 million to only about 50,000 animals — but with CMS support and conservation actions by governments and conservation organizations on the ground, the population has begun to rebound and has now reached over 200,000 animals.

«Two or three of the major STDs have come from animals,» says Alonso Aguirre, a veterinarian and vice president for conservation medicine at Wildlife Trust.

From a conservation and management perspective, this means that when studying animals that may not live in obvious groups, we need to still consider traits within things like social neighbourhoods because these traits can alter how an animal responds to selection pressure.»

The authors point out that although conservation and breeding work in the world's zoos is an important effort, it should not take focus from the needed efforts to preserve the natural habitats of endangered animals.

The Twelfth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS COP12) is being held in Manila, the Philippines, from 23 to 28 October 2017 — the first time that the COP will ever have been held in Asia.

«Sry» Daughterless Mice The greatest conservation successes in recent years have come from cleansing entire islands of the most devastating invasive animals, especially rodents.

Captive - bred axolotls are frequently used in biological research, both to learn from the animal's remarkable ability to regenerate body parts and to help inform conservation efforts.

That effort has been helped by extra funding from the Australian government (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) to look at pheromones and spawning - site choice in toads; from the Invasive Animals Co-Operative Research Centre to explore effects of parasites on toads in Queensland; and from the Western Australians Department of Environment & Conservation, to understand frog and toad parasites at the toad invasion front.

In comments to the USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, ten other conservation groups, and several bee scientists have formally asked for protection of wild bumble bees from the threatConservation, ten other conservation groups, and several bee scientists have formally asked for protection of wild bumble bees from the threatconservation groups, and several bee scientists have formally asked for protection of wild bumble bees from the threat of disease.

While meiosis is fundamental to sexual reproduction and key components of meiotic machinery for chromosomal synapses and recombination are conserved from yeast to mammals [2], [76], the absence of Boule homologs in fungi together with the requirement of Boule homologs in only one sex of animals suggest that conservation of Boule is unlikely due to the same functional constraint that keeps components of meiotic machinery conserved.

Now, a team from the LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (BiK - F), in conjunction with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, conducted a more detailed analysis of these animals» spatial distribution in South Africa, based on their genetic profile.

On a safari through the genome — genes offer new insights into the distribution of giraffes (17/11/2014) A team from the LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (BiK - F), in conjunction with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, has conducted a detailed analysis of these animals» spatial distribution based on their genetic profile....

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I'm a British filmmaker from London currently living in Johannesburg for 6 months as I'm making a documentary on animal conservation.

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«Conservation in Action» (7:10) puts the spotlight on more Disney magnanimity, from the park's on - site preventive medicine at Animal Kingdom to the funds and animals helping situations abroad.

It explores the reasons why some animals have become endangered and outlines conservation efforts to protect the animals from extinction.

The Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park is home to a number of animals from squirrel monkeys to the Green Tree Python.

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I also hold a B.S. in Animal Bioscience from Pennsylvania State University, and a Graduate Certificate in Conservation Biology along with M. S. in Biology with a focus in Animal Behavior from the University of Central Florida.