Sentences with phrase «from local extinction»

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A corridor that is doing its job pushes back the probability of a local extinction — of island species winking out — just as trapped miners can be kept alive by tubes of air snaked from the surface.

The new study, by Professor John J. Wiens from the University of Arizona, used these range - shift studies to show that local extinctions have already happened in the warmest parts of the ranges of more than 450 plant and animal species.

Away from the coastlines, there is evidence that non-human primates can hunt prey at unsustainable levels, for example wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Ngogo in Uganda hunt red colobus monkeys (Procolobus rufomitratus) at a rate that may lead to local extinction of the latter (Teelen, 2008).

To help bring this fish back from the brink of extirpation (local extinction), biologists are planning four releases of captive - raised fish through the winter of 2018; the December 2015 release was the first.

The Department of Conservation works hard to fight the extinction battle, and luckily they get some help from the local community.

My local story announced after a long and difficult struggle to bring back Aleutian geese from the brink of extinction, our locals are now extending the Aleutian Geese hunting season.

In the longer term, there may be serious consequences for fisheries production that result from loss of coral communities and reduced structural complexity, which result in reduced fish species richness, local extinctions and loss of species within key functional groups of reef fish (Sano, 2004; Graham et al., 2006).

In a country that has suffered from widespread poverty, environmental degradation, and, most recently, warfare, a collaboration between conservationists and the local community has kept Mali's elephants from extinction.

After all, this is the same bunch of guys and gals seeking to bring a rare breed of British sheep (the Bowmont) back from the brink of extinction, by developing a local market for their superfine wool.

Biologists say that they «uncovered a staggering rate of local extinctions in the mammal fauna, with only 767 from a possible 3,528 populations still persisting.»

The inaugural event also provided an opportunity to cheer a victory in the fight to save the popular local fish from extinction.

For decades marine biologist Karl Mayer and his small staff have worked unceasingly — one otter at a time — to bring this «keystone» species back from the brink of extinction so it can play its important role in the local marine environment.