Sentences with phrase «increasing tiger populations»

Our goal is increasing tiger populations 50 percent by 2016.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's conservation foundation has awarded a $ 3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's conservation foundation has awarded a $ 3 million grant to the World Wildlife Fund to help Nepal increase its tiger population.

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

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.

The WWF said it will work with the government of Nepal and local communities in a 9,000 square mile (93,310 square km) region that includes protected areas for tigers, rhinos and elephants in order to stop poaching, increase breeding and to monitor the tiger population.

In most cases, this means the yellow fever mosquito population would go down, and the Asian tiger mosquito would increase.

WCS - Indonesia Country Director and co-author of the paper Dr Noviar Andayani added, «This increasing population trend in Sumatran tigers is a dream come true for all conservationists in Indonesia.

Unplanned development in the future will result in loss of connectivity and an increased possibility of extinction for several tiger populations.

«It's like saying, «We increased the lion population, which will more than make up for the fact that tigers are going extinct.»»

CDV infection increased the 50 - year extinction probability of tigers in SABZ by 6.3 % to 55.8 % compared to a control population, depending on risk scenario.

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

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.

According to a new official census released in Delhi today, the tiger population in India has increased to 1,706 - up from 1,114 in 2008.

The increasing rate of extinctions, the rising number of species suffering population declines in the order of 90 per cent (not just tigers, but sparrows and voles, too), the destruction of rainforests, the pollution of the oceans — the evidence is plain to see.

By the 1980s, the Amur tiger population had increased to around 500.

«There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure on the ecosystem than any other — namely the ever - increasing size of the world's population.

With hindsight, it also became clear that protection and management of many reserves remained inadequate (the extirpation of tigers in the Indian tiger reserves of Sariska, reported in 2004, and Panna, reported in 2010, is illustrative) and this, coupled with an increased demand for tiger parts [12], meant that poaching of tigers and prey decimated populations across Asia, both inside and outside reserves.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»