Sentences with phrase «island populations in»

Dr Fry's team studied the venom of 16 tiger snake populations from across Australia including five island populations in the Bass Strait, and venoms from 11 other snakes in related genera.

A comparison in indices of sea otter health and condition between the declining southwest population in Alaska and the stable Commander Island population in Russia in 2004 - 05.

Not exact matches

More than 95 % of Newfoundland's population came to the island from western Europe in the mid-1700s, Gardner explains.

Oxitec has conducted similar trials in Brazil, Panama, and the Cayman Islands, reducing the populations of Aedes aegypti more than 90 percent, the company previously reported.

The island has a population of about 3,200, most of whom live in Lanai City.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

About 44 % of that went to Quebec and almost 15 % or $ 16.8 billion went to the three territories which combined have a population of about 111,000, about 23 % less than the number of people in Prince Edward Island, which received $ 2.2 billion over the same time period.

Okinawa, a remote island to the south west of Japan, has an unusually large population of centenarians and is often referred to in examinations of ikigai — though not by Gordon.

Another common factor here is that many of the places that suffered long blackouts have remote populations or have cities strewn across islands, making it difficult and tedious to get the necessary repair supplies in place.

While Staten Island is the city's least populous borough, its population has grown steadily and rapidly, more than doubling in the last half - century to close to one - half million residents.

In the island community of Port Aransas, population 3,800, officials were unable to fully survey the town because of «massive» damage.

According to the Intercept, the island's population has decreased by 10 % in the past decade.

It is known that a small population of mammoths survived on St. Paul Island, Alaska, up until 3700 BC, which is before the time when some think the Book of Mormon describes elephants in the Book of Ether.

Here 44.9 % of the total population are Catholics, versus 44.3 % in Rhode Island, 36.8 % in New Jersey, 35.1 % in Connecticut, and 32.4 % in New York.

After almost ten years of North American maneuvering, the U.N. Committee on Decolonization declared the island a colonial territory (over the protest of the U.S. and most of the island's population — who argued that in 1953, when Puerto Rico became a so - called «commonwealth» as a result of a popular election, it ceased to be a colony and became instead a «free associated state»).

Pentecostal and Full Gospel churches are the biggest Protestant groups in the hardest - hit islands, where Christians make up 75 percent or more of the population.

Testifying to the effects of such programs on the people of the tiny island of Montserrat, with a population of 12,000, and Saba, with only 1,000, he asked, «Where is my community in all that?»

«In March 2011, over 7,000 immigrants were on the island, which has a population of 6,000 people.»

Except in a few small islands in the Pacific, until 1914 the Christian communities which arose from missions from the West were small minorities, Christian enclaves in overwhelming non-Christian populations, dependent on continued infusions from Europe and America and regarded by the non-Christian neighbors as aliens, the religious phase of Western imperialism and colonialism.

With Jamaican jerk spices and a little bit of curry powder (a nod to the Indian influence and population in Jamaica) the pork is great even as a standalone item, but a little mango salsa gives it some extra island flair.

Owner Richard Evanson purchased Turtle Island in 1972 and has worked to preserve the rich biodiversity, provide the Island with a 90 % tree canopy and to protect the cultural integrity of the indigenous Fijian population occupying the surrounding islands.

Maui Nui Venison, a sustainable operation based in Hawaii, harvests wild Axis Deer on the islands of Maui and Moloka'i to keep the invasive species populations under control, and through partners like Nicky USA, provides this truly wild protein to consumers.

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

Moroccans generally being Berber or Arab, Surinam being a country in South America (where the population is mixed between Indigenous people 2 %, East Indians 37 %, Chinese 8 %, people of African descent 10 %, Javanese 15 %, White 5 %, Creole 31 %) and the population of Aruba (as an example of the most populous Dutch Carribbean Island) having a population which is 80 % mixed white / Arawak.

The awardee is Carolyn Mostello, a coastal waterbird specialist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mass Wildlife) who has devoted her career to restoring populations of federally endangered roseate terns and other island nesting species in Buzzards Bay.

He said the availability of ready markets in the face of huge population, constant electricity, cheap labour, serene environment and other enormous opportunities for businesses to thrive abound in Lagos Island CBD, pointing out that the return of corporate organizations will indeed accelerate the vivid realization of government policy.

Not surprisingly, the bulk of the population loss is continuing to occur at the Western end of the state, while most of the gains are concentrated in NYC and on Long Island.

Some analysts have suggested that Carolyn McCarthy's seat, the Fourth District in Nassau County, might be carved up instead, but that is a less natural division, since Long Island's suburban population has grown enough to still warrant four full districts.

the Maori electoral population of New Zealand shall be divided by the quota for General electoral districts in the South Island determined pursuant to section 35 (3)(b), and the quotient so obtained shall be the number of Maori electoral districts:

But he believes the right Republican could do well upstate and in key population centers like Long Island's Suffolk County.

The Buffalo businessman won some 94 percent of the vote in his native Erie County in last week's GOP primary, but the bulk of the state's population — not to mention enrolled voters — is concentrated in the five boroughs and on Long Island.

«This historic announcement of this massive jail population reduction is a milestone in our path to closing Rikers Island,» the council speaker said in an emailed statement.

While population growth in Staten Island has slowed, according to recent census data, housing development has seen a recent uptick, Oddo said.

«We know deer can pose significant challenges to our residents on Staten Island and this administration is aggressively addressing the growing deer population,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.

For Jamaica, StreetEasy attributed its rise to a number of favorable factors, including «a healthy growth in population since 2011, strong growth in interest among buyers and renters, comparatively low prices and convenient access to the New York City subway and Long Island Rail Road systems.

In her State of the City speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a reality.

New York's Puerto Rican population began growing significantly in the 1950s and»60s as people left the island in search of economic opportunity.

In the meantime, DREAM Act advocates are also planning to exert some pressure on a some of Republican lawmakers — especially on Long Island — whose districts have sizable Latino populations, staging rallies in their districts and engaging local religious leaders to help spread their messagIn the meantime, DREAM Act advocates are also planning to exert some pressure on a some of Republican lawmakers — especially on Long Island — whose districts have sizable Latino populations, staging rallies in their districts and engaging local religious leaders to help spread their messagin their districts and engaging local religious leaders to help spread their message.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation.

you are also completely discounting a large portion of the city's population, who reside in the FOUR other boroughs (brooklyn, bronx, queens, staten island).

A new study says no traces of pesticides were found in lobsters collected in Long Island Sound in late 2014, boosting the belief that warming water temperatures is the main culprit in a huge lobster population decline.

The deer population in Staten Island has exploded recently, with an aerial survey done by the Parks Department in 2014 finding 763 of the animals in the borough — up from just 24 in 2008.

The deer population on Staten Island has recently boomed, with an aerial survey done by the Parks Department last year finding nearly 800 of the animals in the borough.

STATEN ISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten IISLAND — Hundreds of deer would be sterilized in a three - year program proposed as a way to curb the animals» population boom on Staten IslandIsland.

De Blasio, who has said his administration continues to put plans in place to decrease the population in Rikers Island and install several reforms at the jail, said the speaker's plan, first laid out during her State of the City address last week, lacked detail and reasonable options for housing the approximately 10,000 inmates currently detained at the troubled jail.

It has diverted at least 3,800 people from jail since its launch in 2016 and is set to expand as part of the push to cut the population and eventually close Rikers Island.

Oddo said with the population of seniors in America and the borough expected to surge by 2030, facilities like The Brielle will become increasingly important to have in Staten Island.

The borough with the lowest population in the city had the largest ratio of property damage claims against the city, including cars wrecked by potholes and other issues — 207 for every 100,000 people, the Staten Island Advance reported.

A good example would be the Chagos Islands, where Britain evicted the majority of the population in the 1970s in order to allow the US to build a military base.

An experiment to control Staten Island's booming deer population through mass vasectomies is said to be the first of its kind in the nation.