Sentences with phrase «in tiger conservation»

WWF also co-organizes annual Tiger Day celebrations in Vladivostok and in villages all across Primorski Province to get communities involved in tiger conservation.

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So researchers led by Ullas Karanth, a tiger biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York City, turned to poop.

Samples from the two tigers confirm that they were carrying the distemper virus, says Denise McAloose of the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

«Canine distemper may be a factor in the decline of the population,» McAloose says, adding that any tiger conservation programme needs to tackle the disease.

By easing those threats, the park «is likely to be one of the great tiger success stories» in a decade or two, says Dale Miquelle, a world authority on Siberian tigers and director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Russia Program in Vladivostok.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

«That's allowed them to develop a picture of the distribution of tigers in a way that we haven't had before,» says John Seidensticker, a tiger conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.

«The level of conservation in the toxin sequences is not only really unusual, but this is why the corresponding tiger snake antivenom is so useful in treatments against bites from many Australian snakes that affect the blood in the same way,» Dr Fry said.

Modern conservation efforts tend to center around large animals — such as tigers, elephants, and wolves — and top predators in peril, while Roopnarine and Angielczyk show that small amniotes (reptiles and ancient mammal relatives) were most vulnerable during the early phase of this long - ago period of extinction.

A new scientific publication from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park Authority looks at the effectiveness of the park's protection zone and finds that the density of Sumatran tigers has increased despite the continued threat of living in an «In Danger» World Heritage Sitin an «In Danger» World Heritage SitIn Danger» World Heritage Site.

The team used genetic information collected on field from tiger faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a global high priority tiger conservation landscape.

The data from tigers, lions and snow leopards provides a rich and diverse genome resource that could be used in future studies of conservation and population genomics.

Martin Gilbert of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bronx, New York, and colleagues studied tigers in Sikhote - Alin Biosphere Zapovednik, a nature reserve in the Russian Far East along the Sea of Japan.

And they make some conservation agencies set these unrealistic targets, saying that, «Okay, we had the tiger summit with Mr. Putin presiding in 2010, so in ten years after that we should have twice the number of tigers.»

«In lieu of a practical means of delivering [canine distemper virus] vaccines to wild tigers, the most viable strategy to ensure their conservation is the maintenance of large connected populations within protected areas that buffer the effects of local declines,» Gilbert and colleagues write.

With fewer than 500 individuals left in the wild, the Sumatran tiger is classed as critically endangered by the World Conservation Union.

Mr. Rupani's sixth book after the critically acclaimed Driving Holidays in India and More Driving Holidays in India and India's 100 Best Destinations; the book tracks the wild feline through India's best tiger reserves and was compiled with the support of Land Rover's primary global conservation partner, the Born Free Foundation.

In addition to tiger lore and scalding adventure, Vaillant shows us Russia's far east and its inhabitants, their sometimes desperate lives interwoven with the economics of poaching and the politics of wildlife conservation.

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

Several projects were successfully completed or reached significant milestones, including: First time in 100 years that the global population of wild tigers has increased, with 60 % growth where WWF - Canada works on tiger conservation in Nepal; first ever certified sustainable cod fishery in Canada; first ever national measure of the health of our freshwater ecosystems reaching 75 % completion; and, end of oil exploration interests near Arctic's Lancaster Sound region

Many breeders donate to tiger conservation, so this miniature tiger helps to save big tigers in the wild.

The park is a part of Project Tiger conservation and boasts of a number of tigers in their natural habitat.

Here's more on «Wild Tigers on a Crowding Planet» and why it's a conservation bargain to invest in building the resilience of the last spots where tigers have a durable foothold.

Here's a «Your Dot» contribution from Rabinowitz, who heads Panthera, which — together with the Wildlife Conservation Society — has been running a project called Tigers Forever, focused on doubling tiger populations from 2006 to 2016 in critical spots.

Two years ago, during the International Forum for Tiger Conservation in St. Petersburg, unattended by Panthera [and covered here], grand promises including a «new» $ 330 million dollar pledge for tiger conservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tigeConservation in St. Petersburg, unattended by Panthera [and covered here], grand promises including a «new» $ 330 million dollar pledge for tiger conservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tigeconservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tiger projects).

Panthera's local partner in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society, has also worked with the Government to establish tiger reserve status for Kawaal Wildlife Sanctuary.

The count was conducted by India's National Tiger Conservation Authority with key partners, including WWF, in the largest tiger population survey ever undertaken.

The Moyar Valley and Sigur Plateau in Southwest India's Western Ghats Complex, that has been a focus of recent WWF conservation efforts, was found to contain more than 50 tigers.

The figures marked the opening of the International Tiger Conservation Conference, a three day meeting following on the heels of the groundbreaking Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), a worldwide plan to bring the species back from the brink of extinction which was forged in November 2010 at an international tiger conservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister VlaConservation Conference, a three day meeting following on the heels of the groundbreaking Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), a worldwide plan to bring the species back from the brink of extinction which was forged in November 2010 at an international tiger conservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister Vlaconservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

It hasn't hurt that Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, has been a strong supporter of tiger conservation, traveling to the region to help release Amur tigers in 2014.

Apple will be unveiling a new operating system next year called «Lion» and I wanted to bring to your attention that lions will soon join tigers in terms of conservation status.

The paper, «A landscape - based conservation strategy to double the wild tiger population,» is being published in Conservation Letters and is fully available online for theconservation strategy to double the wild tiger population,» is being published in Conservation Letters and is fully available online for theConservation Letters and is fully available online for the time being.

In a statement, Joe Walston, who directs programs in Asia for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is working with the Thai government on tiger conservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a significant cosIn a statement, Joe Walston, who directs programs in Asia for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is working with the Thai government on tiger conservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a significant cosin Asia for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is working with the Thai government on tiger conservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a signiConservation Society, which is working with the Thai government on tiger conservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a signiconservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a significant cost.

«WWF is alarmed that the loss of forests is taking such a high toll not only on the remaining wild elephants and tigers in Sumatra but also on global climate change,» said Dr Sybille Klenzendorf, director of species conservation at WWF - US.

JAKARTA — Conservation authorities in Indonesia are investigating suspicions that the illegal trade in tiger parts drove the killing of one of the rare big cats earlier this month.

The call came as governments from 13 countries where tigers exist in the wild met in Thailand to discuss their conservation and how to boost tiger numbers.

In November 2010, Dicaprio gave $ 1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society at Russia's tiger summit.

In Malaysia, Panthera is working with the Johor State Government as part of of a collaborative project with the Wildlife Conservation Society that aims to increase tiger numbers by 50 percent over a 10 - year period at key sites across the animal's range.

With all the tiger focus in the past week, with the start of the Chinese New Year, a really interesting interview in Yale Environment 360 with Alan Rabinowitz of conservation group Panthera.

Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out tiger poop, which gets scooped up and studied by scientists in an effort to learn about the genetic diversity of the dwindling tiger population in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia.

The designation protects some of the last expanses of closed forest in the Indo - Pacific region and is one of the most important ecosystems, including wetlands, for the long - term conservation of large mammals such as tigers, clouded leopards, and Asian elephants.

For wide - ranging, low - density species like the tiger, conservation planning at the landscape level is necessary, landscapes need to remain permeable to tiger movements, and source sites have to remain embedded in those larger landscapes.

Current approaches to tiger conservation are not slowing the decline in tiger numbers [1]--[3], which has continued unabated over the last two decades.

Nevertheless, beginning in the early 1970s, conservation initiatives helped establish a large number of tiger reserves, particularly in India, Nepal, and, to a lesser extent, in Thailand, Indonesia, and Russia.

These video camera traps show that Bukit Batabuh area is an important habitat for the Sumatran tiger in Riau, functioning as a wildlife corridor, hence it becomes a priority area for tiger conservation.

The dogs were trained by University of Washington's Center for Conservation Biology and were tasked with sniffing out tiger scat, which was then studied by scientists to learn more about the dwindling tiger population in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia.

You can learn more about tiger conservation and which countries are the worst offenders at Tigers in Crisis.

India About Blog Blog on tiger safari and conservation in National Parks of India.