Sentences with phrase «gray wolf populations»

The diverse genetic origin of the domestic dog has likely involved multiple gray wolf populations from breed inception that were even at later times backcrossed with wolves throughout history.

Genomic analysis of other village dog and gray wolf populations and additional phenotyping will no doubt further enrich our understanding of the process of domestication and artificial selection in dogs.

Under the new agreement, gray wolves will be delisted in those states that have established suitable protection plans (Idaho and Montana)-- so limited hunting will be allowed there — while federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections will remain in place in the other states (Washington, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming) where gray wolf populations are still in jeopardy.

November 28, 2012 — The Center filed suit challenging the Service's failure to respond to our 2004 petition calling for implementation of sweeping reforms in the management of the Mexican gray wolf population, which had by then grown by only three animals, leaving just 58 wolves in the wild.

Only one female is left in the Michigan gray wolf population, conservationists want to use social media to save endangered rhinos, the mullet turns out to be green and more.

Not exact matches

Using annual population estimates from the Russian Federal Agency of Game Mammal Monitoring database, researchers analyzed trends of eight large mammals — roe deer, red deer, reindeer, moose, wild boar, brown bears, lynx, and gray wolves — in Russia from 1981 to 2010, a time period that includes the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

Washington, Oregon and Utah only have small populations of gray wolves.

After years of political controversy, bureaucratic turmoil, and fluctuating populations, around eighty Mexican gray wolves roam the Southwest today, more than at any time since the government reintroduced them to the wild in 1998.

Their chief natural predator, the once - statewide population of gray wolves, has been hunted nearly to extinction.

January 2005 — The Center participated in a successful coalition lawsuit overturning a Service wolf reclassification rule that downlisted wolves to threatened, divided gray wolves into distinct population segments, and precipitated a recovery - planning process that would have established Mexican gray wolves outside their historic range instead of where they evolved.

December 9, 2012 — The Center sued the Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency's rejection of a 2009 scientific petition from the Center that sought classification of the Mexican gray wolf as an endangered subspecies or population of gray wolves.

January 12, 1998 — The Service published a final rule declaring the Mexican gray wolf a nonessential, experimental population, allowing for the take of wolves in the wild.

August 11, 2009 — The Center petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to formally separate the Mexican gray wolf from other U.S. wolf populations and list it under the Endangered Species Act as either an endangered subspecies or a «distinct population segment.»

POPULATION TREND: By the 1930s, Mexican gray wolves had been eliminated from the United States.