Sentences with phrase «habitat of the rhinos»

Here, the scientists analysed data collected over a span of 13 years and identified the characteristics describing the preferred habitat of the rhinos.

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If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

«My concern is that [the Sumatran rhino's] future viability as a species on this planet and the future viability of any offspring is really in question because the habitat just isn't there.

This perilous situation is a result of a devastating combination of habitat loss (mainly to create lucrative oil - palm plantations) and poaching (to feed the black market for rhino horn).

The distinctive habitat of the Lowveld region is full of big game, including lions, leopards, and white rhinos.

So close to Gauteng it is virtually on its doorstep, it is regarded as outdoors country with a climate to match, and often described in terms of its flatness, smattering of trees and grasslands — it's the natural habitat of the black and white rhino.

When we think of wild animals losing their habitats, we usually envision elephants, rhinos, and tigers in faraway places.

The designation could increase the area of forest conserved within oil palm plantations provided it has high conservation significance, such as serving as habitat for endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and rhinos.

Rudi Putra, a biologist from Indonesia, was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2014 for his work to protect the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino by physically dismantling illegal palm oil plantations in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem.

The rhino, one of four sub-species of black rhino, was declared extinct this week by the IUCN, five years after the last extensive survey of its habitat in Cameroon.

Wildlife Heroes: 40 Leading Conservationists and the Animals They Are Committed to Saving by Julie Scardina and Jeff Flocken, features Raoul du Toit (2011) and the rhinos of Southern Africa; Eugene Rutagarama (2001) and the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and Wangari Maathai's (1991) campaign to protect the habitat of Kenya's safari animals.

A biologist by training, Rudi Putra is dismantling illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem, protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.

Rudi Putra, 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for Islands and Island Nations, led communities in dismantling illegal palm oil plantations, protecting the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.

Putra began to see his work as not only protecting the rhinos and their habitat, but the people of the region as well.

And now, after 46 years away from their native habitat, decedents of those rescued rhinos have begun making a historic journey back to the Serengeti recently, in one of the «most ambitious» relocation efforts ever undertaken.According to a report from The Telegraph, five rhinos were transported from a conservancy in South Africa to their native home in Tanzania's Serengeti National Reserve via a Hercules C - 130 aircraft.

We sit down with 2014 Goldman Prize winner Rudi Putra to discuss his work to dismantle illegal palm oil plantations that are causing massive deforestation in northern Sumatra's Leuser Ecosystem, in order to protect the habitat of the critically endangered Sumatran rhino.

While the habitat of the woolly mammoth is widely different from what it was thousands of years ago — fragmented by roads and cities, for instance — the habitat of the northern white rhino still exists.