Sentences with phrase «increase wild populations»

«The purpose of this release is to increase the wild population of the Asian giant softshell turtle,» said Mr. Sun Yoeung, WCS's Asian Giant Softshell Turtle Conservation Project Coordinator.

This application of interspecies cloning will also effectively enable the Recovery Team to increase the wild population of ferrets and conserve genetic diversity in an additive, rather than detracting, manner.

A group representing several conservation organizations gathered eggs and released hatchlings back to the habitat; since then, a community protection program has been helping to increase the wild population of the turtles.

Not exact matches

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

Eight kits, including offspring of Scarface, were born recently, significantly increasing the gene diversity of this endangered population that a dedicated team is working to recover in the wild.

After 18 weeks, this would have increased to around 100 %, and the infection would then spread to other wild populations at a rate of around 2 km per week.

4) Create networks that share health data — Foster sharing of health data among experts within and across wild carnivore range countries, to vastly increase our understanding of disease impacts on endangered populations, and enable proactive and reactive responses when and where they are needed most.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

The research also explains why current zoo breeding programs, which have attempted to increase the genetic diversity of captive great ape populations, have resulted in captive ape populations that are genetically dissimilar to their wild counterparts..

Surveys indicate that Russia's wild tiger population has increased from 40 in the 1940s to 540 today.

«A reduction this big in the ability of queens to start new colonies significantly increases the chances that wild populations could go extinct.»

The country recently ended logging of cedar trees in the tigers» habitat, which not only directly protected the big cats, it also increased the crop of cedar nuts, which fed and helped to boost the population of wild boars, the tigers» favorite prey.

Increased focus on enforcement in a few such areas could help interrupt poaching activities and restore wild elephant populations.

Behra points to a project to collect crocodile eggs from northwestern Madagascar that has increased the wild crocodile population and put money into the pockets of local people.

Pressure on those wild populations has since dropped, thanks to efforts to increase captive clownfish breeding.

The wild panda population, they say, has increased nearly 17 percent to 1,864 pandas and panda habitat also has improved.

The tight regulations constrained FWS's ability «to release additional wolves from captivity» and «to increase the size of the wild population,» the agency said in a press release today.

Only then will we be able to resist the ever - growing pressures that transnational crime, corruption and increasing population place on wildlife and wild lands.

Declines in the pollination of wild plants may lead to increases in the population of plants that do not rely on pollinators, and pollinator declines would lead to decreases in crop yields, Fuentes noted.

Reasoning that previous studies may have missed infected bonobo populations, a team led by Beatrice Hahn, MD, a professor of Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted a more extensive survey, increasing both the number and places they sampled wild bonobo populations.

«The rate at which our water resources on the planet are increasing is zero,» he says, «while our population grows at a wild rate.»

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

As their intake of displaced orang - utans increases, and as suitable habitat for reintroductions declines, there have been suggestions that they hybridize Bornean orang - utan subspecies — either in isolated, «mixed» populations, or within existing wild populations.

In 1960 there were 22 captive snow leopards in Europe and North America but by 1976 the population had increased to 167, many of them wild caught animals.

At Chernobyl, populations of wild boar, elk, roe deer, and wolves increased significantly in the decade after the accident.

There are fewer than 250 California condors left in the wild, but species populations are increasing thanks in part to captive breeding programs at American zoos.

In the 19th Century, as American's urban population grew and the demand for wild meat increased, thousands of men became full - time pigeon hunters.

With increased genetic variability and a decreased susceptibility to Sylvatic Plague, the recovery effort may one day achieve the goal of sustainable wild populations of Black - footed Ferrets across their historic range.

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

Progress and expansion into previously undisturbed areas have placed increased external pressures on wild animal populations, and the number of injured wildlife cases will rise as land within the south is developed.

If any thing else urbanization probably increases the cat population by a little along with huge increases n pollution, traffic, buildings, boys with bee bee guns, pesticides, Urbanization also has the nasty side effect of decreasing natural resources for all species of wild life including birds.

On San Miguel and Santa Rosa, increased population numbers and the absence of golden eagles has allowed initial releases of foxes back into the wild.

We hope that Murphy will reproduce and help the population increase in the wild.

Increase a population of a magnificent wild animal only to go back out and murder it again for sport or «management»?

NEW DELHI, March, 28 2011 — The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world's remaining wild tigers.

[Tweet This] The real problem is not that small band of macho men and women who (for reasons that are beyond me) enjoy paying large sums to money to hunt wild animals but our modern life - styles and our ever - increasing population.»

AFAIK currently known weeds don't respond to increased pCO2 as well as crop plants do, but who knows what «pre-adapted» wild populations might be waiting to invade fields all over when the pCO2 passes a certain point?

The power lines have increased proportionately with the population, so it can be reasoned that most of the damage from wild fires in California is a result of increased population not Global Warming.