Sentences with phrase «impacting their animal populations»

Anyone who wants to prevent ringworm from impacting their animal populations - especially veterinarians, vet techs, animal shelter and rescue group leaders, line staff and foster caregivers - will benefit from this session, given by Dr. Sandra Newbury, National Shelter Medicine Extension Veterinarian for the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program.

Claims of declining numbers work because we're emotionally vulnerable to charges that we're negatively impacting animal populations.

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As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

«Every animal we treat allows us to monitor the health of the species and most importantly, identify baseline indicators that can be used to better understand the wildlife population and environmental impacts,» said Tim Binder, executive vice president of animal care at Shedd Aquarium.

Aggression toward humans and native animal species, the depletion of submerged vegetation in aquatic ecosystems and degraded water quality due to droppings are among the negative impacts of mute swan populations, environmental experts say.

In addition to the damage that can be caused to an individual animal, «the presence of lead indirectly impacts upon the Griffon vulture population due to changes to bird behaviour, reduced reproductive success and lower immunological response,» the researcher concludes.

The researchers also found that using physiological biomarkers, such as hormones from droppings, is an effective way of evaluating the impact of ecological and demographic factors on animal populations.

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

The effects of waste on larger animals, including birds with stomachs full of plastic, have garnered significant attention, he says, but «when you start altering [whole] populations,... that's when you get these true impacts.»

Dr Ellis says the impact on different sexes should be properly assessed in all aquatic animals to accurately predict how populations will respond to climate change.

«When squid populations change, it often impacts other animals such as albatross egg production or fisheries production.»

The discovery shows that the food intake of mothers — which impacts on the appetite of their offspring — protects animals from periods of population boom and bust.

A new study found surprising evidence that climate change is rapidly causing coastal changes in the Arctic that could have significant impacts on Arctic food webs and animal populations.

«Small population sizes and habitat fragmentation are well known threats to animals with limited mobility, but the impacts of these factors are hard to observe in wild populations,» said Forero - Medina, Species and Science Director for WCS's Colombia Program and a study co-author.

Our findings highlight the need to study the physiological mechanisms underlying the impact of urbanization on wildlife in order to better understand present and future threats to populations and the adaptations animals make to counter these.

Life Science: Habitats & Environmental Change Build understanding of the human impact on animal populations.

The Woodstock Animal Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to positively impacting the companion pet population, making every pet a wanted pet.

The connection is made to the irrefutable, massive, negative impact puppy mills have on this country's pet population crisis and how our society deals with it — Millions of dogs are born in puppy mills every year, while, in the same period, millions are put to death in animal shelters across the country.

In an effort to make a greater impact to help the companion animals in Anne Arundel County, Rude Ranch is moving forward to implement a large scale spay and neuter clinic, «The Spay Spa & Neuter Nook», to get ahead of the over population problem.

The measurable benefits of animal control programs are unknown and the aim of this study was to determine the impact of these programs on pet population changes.

This study documents the positive impacts publically subsidized low - cost spay and neuter programs can have that often go unmet in communities: pet population control, leading to the prevention of the proliferation of feral dog and cat populations, slowing the flow of animals into shelters both voluntarily and through field services, and reduction in the incidence of humane destruction of animals.

The course covers best practices for shelter animal intake, wellness care, animal housing, sanitation, biohazard control, population management, medical record keeping, communications, and other topics that directly impact a shelter's ability to keep pets healthy.

Internationally, large populations of feral cats constitute an important and controversial issue due to their impact on cat overpopulation, animal welfare, public health, and the environment, and to disagreement about what are the best methods for their control.

Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.»

Distemper is often fatal in rescue dogs and puppies, not only because of the ravages of the disease as it progresses to neurological impacts but because shelters are often not equipped to quarantine sick animals and must resort to euthanasia to stop the spread among the population.

We are all proud of the impact we have on animal population control.

All SWAT Airedales available for adoption have been spayed or neutered for the health and well - being of the animal and to make a positive impact on the pet population problem.

Conservation populations of primates, important in species survival plans, have altered microbiomes that are more human - like and may impact their health, suggests a recently published study funded by Morris Animal Foundation.

By ensuring that your animals do not have unwanted litters and by adopting rather than purchasing your new best friend, you will make a direct and lasting impact — helping SOS of Ohio to reduce the homeless pet population one spay or neuter at a time.

In a newsletter circulated last Thursday, the Washington Humane Society's vice president of external affairs, Scott Giacoppo, wrote that the Wildlife Action Plan as proposed «would result in the rounding up and killing of feral cats — essentially a reversal back to the animal policies of the 1800s that were ultimately proven to have no impact on the population at all.»

In Washington, D.C., for example, the City Paper (September 15, 2015) reported on a controversial, regressive wildlife plan proposed by a city agency: ``... Washington Humane Society's vice president of external affairs, Scott Giacoppo, wrote that the Wildlife Action Plan as proposed «would result in the rounding up and killing of feral cats — essentially a reversal back to the animal policies of the 1800s that were ultimately proven to have no impact on the population at all.

It will still take several years to drastically reduce animal over ‐ population in the operating area, but after four years there is already a recognizable impact.

Spaying just one animal before they have any litters has a huge impact on the population problem and preventing unnecessary euthanasia.

This is a great opportunity to learn more about key issues that impact not only the companion animal homeless population, but society as a whole.

As a program of the Humane Society of the Piedmont, Planned Pethood Spay and Neuter Clinic can offer reduced pricing to animal shelters and rescue groups, allowing us to make an even greater impact on the unwanted pet population.

The impact of infectious diseases on wild animal populations - a review.

You are right that now our human just born as the human population and impact on the ecosystem, make so many animals becoming endanger species.

With Chula and Jude at our feet, and Kane and Rosebud watching us, we met a second time to discuss the impact of climate change on animal populations:

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

The key threat here involves the expansion of hot and arid conditions into areas that currently sustain large populations: failure of other animal and plant species (including those farmed for food) to adapt quickly enough to such changes and subsequent ecosystem / agricultural collapses would obviously have massive impacts upon us.

In fact, William Brown, BOEM's chief environmental officer has recognized that offshore seismic survey technology has been used in the United States with «no known detrimental impact to marine animal populations or to commercial fishing.»

These types of urban agriculture have a more pronounced economic impact and higher profitability, but their externalities for the city and urban populations, especially those of the intensive larger scale enterprises, tend to be higher especially through risk of water and soil contamination due to intensive use of agro chemicals, health risks from use of contaminated water for irrigation and risks of animal - human disease transfers (zoonosis).

A wildcat group is concerned about the impact of tree felling on the population of the animals in Clashindarroch Forest in Aberdeenshire.

Feral cats, along with wild dogs and foxes, are thought to have a devastating impact on populations of small native animals in parts of the Australian bush.

Abstract - The livestock sector faces the challenge to respond to the growing demand for animal protein from an expanding population while reducing environmental impact through GHG emissions...

Mike Beck, senior marine scientist for the Nature Conservancy, thinks «we'll see slightly lower numbers of animals impacted,» but because many animal populations around the Gulf are already stressed, «the proportional impact on those would be greater.»

Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth, increasing consumption of animal products.

On every continent, plant and animal populations are changing in ways that reverberate through entire ecosystems and impact humanity in various ways.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.