Sentences with phrase «habitat encroachment»

The study has also helped solidify reasons for mammal decline, including habitat encroachment and smaller wildlife reserves.

This campaign is to stop poaching and habitat encroachment as many animals are in danger of extinction brought on by human activities around the world.

With support from WCS and other partners, we conducted patrols in and around the park to remove tiger and prey snare traps and prevent habitat encroachment.»

Now the wild giants seem to be having trouble reproducing and face a slew of pressures: climate change, tourist harassment and habitat encroachment all threaten their future.

Not exact matches

Formed toward the end of the 1950s, two of these groups remain active today: the FARC (Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces), which draws its primary strength from campesinos in the south, and the ELN (Army of National Liberation), whose strength is greater in the north among oil workers, indigenous groups defending their habitat against encroachment by the oil industry, and the Afro - Colombian population.

And they say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

They say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

Some scholars suspect that coalitionary killing is a response to human encroachment on chimp habitat.

These events appear to be the result of human encroachment into the monkeys» natural habitat, and probably resulted from transfer of human bacteria from hands to food that was then fed to monkeys, according to the report.

The pronghorn is one of several endangered species whose habitat is severely impacted by human encroachment in the form of highways, access roads for increased border patrols, fences and other barriers.

Despite the precarious situation, Scally is hopeful: «If we are able to stop further encroachment of their habitat, maybe they will be able to carry on and recover.»

General Orders No. 9 (Unrated) Cinematic portrait of the State of Georgia shot by first - time director Robert Persons who laments the escalating encroachment of urbanization on the South's natural habitats.

This increase is attributed to human encroachment into the alligators habitat.

«The primary threat to the Key Largo woodrat,» explains a 1999 USFWS report (which, admittedly, includes feral cats among the «other threats associated with human encroachment»), «is habitat loss and fragmentation caused by increasing urbanization.»

Encouraged by the efforts of the local residents and conservation groups, the government has initiated action to prevent encroachment into turtles» natural habitat.

Because the Channel Islands are almost entirely owned and controlled by either the Catalina Island Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, or the federal government, the fox has a chance to receive the protection it needs, including constant supervision by interested officials without the ongoing threat of human encroachment on its habitat.

The juxtaposition between the organic forms of the animals and the raw, utilitarian texture of their media becomes a commentary on modern encroachment on natural habitats.

Human encroachment threatens these habitats, but global warming and drought may be the death knell for sky islands.

«Those remaining would face increased threats from encroachment, conflicts with humans and extensive habitat fragmentation,» said Gaveau.

Tiger numbers in recent decades have plummeted because of human encroachment - with the loss of more than nine - tenths of their habitat - and poaching to supply a vibrant trade in tiger parts.

That old phrase tossed out by parents at fearful children about spiders, «They're more afraid of you than you are of them,» has never been more true, at least according to researchers from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) who have found that spiders, like many other animal species, are suffering from habitat loss and human encroachment.

And yet, there are few places facing as much risk of losing its flora and fauna to logging, pollution, human encroachment on habitat and other problems.

The series was conceived by Cabral as a way to highlight the plight of elephants, apes, tigers, pandas, lions, wolves and other animals that are currently being threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and other environmental pressures brought on by human greed, encroachment and massive climate change.

While it may be kind of cute that this tiny owl would try to make a home on a cruise ship of all places, human encroachment into its natural habitat is likely the reason it ended up vying to live in such an unnatural spot.

Sea turtles are under enormous threat as they're caught as bycatch in fisheries, and lose their habitats to overfishing, pollution, and other human encroachment — including poaching and rampant sea turtle egg collection.

The clip seen below was recorded in the Cross River gorilla's dwindling habitat near Cameroon's border with Nigeria, a region hit hard by human encroachment and poaching.

The threats faced by hirolas are by and large the same as those which are claiming a record number of species across the globe every year: droughts fueled by climate change, encroachment from expanding settlements in their habitat, and unrestricted hunting.

However, our encroachment on habitat is undeniably sending many species into a spiral.