Sentences with phrase «killed by livestock»

Some dogs that chase sheep may even be killed by livestock guard dogs.

Innumerable wolves, coyotes, dogs, foxes and dingoes are killed by livestock farmers, often by trapping or poisoning.

Not exact matches

Many are hunted illegally, struck by vehicles or legally killed by governmental agencies as a means of protecting livestock.

A big surprise is that more than half the killings — 55 per cent — are estimated to be done by herders avenging livestock attacks by leopards, with only 21 per cent of the cats taken by poachers.

The felines are hunted, run over by traffic, killed by ranchers in retaliation for livestock losses, and abused or murdered by fearful people who accidentally come across them.

«Reimbursing ranchers for livestock killed by predators supports conservation efforts: Compensation program offsets costs of preserving wildlife habitat on private land.»

When livestock such as cattle are killed by wolves, cougars, eagles or bears, ranchers receive payment for the market value of the animal.

In the meantime, it became conventional wisdom to blame the decline on factors such as conversion of lion habitat for agriculture, disease, and killings by locals upset over lion attacks on people or livestock.

This forest living cat is surprisingly tolerant to deforestation and direct killing by people as retaliation for lost livestock (poultry) is not common, according to findings published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Revenues there also fund anti-poaching patrols, compensate villagers for livestock killed by tigers, and pay for fence construction and other programmes.

«One likely factor in this improvement is a more hands - off approach by the Fish and Wildlife Service, which has not killed a wolf in response to livestock depredations in five years.»

By contributing to water over-consumption, carbon emissions, and global warming, mass production of livestock is slowly killing our planet.

At the apex of his reign, he and his friends attempted an epic pub crawl in the 12 famous bars of their hometown, only to be turned back by... well, by the same things that turn back anyone who's consumed enough alcohol to kill most forms of livestock.

Since 1994, around 500 Kangal dogs have been given to farmers in Namibia by the Cheetah Conservation Fund in an effort protect livestock from Cheetah attacks and hopefully lower the rate of cheetahs killed by farmers.

Although killed or inactivated products make up about 15 % of the veterinary biologicals used, they have been associated with 85 % of the post-vaccination reactions, mainly because of the acute adverse responses induced by the adjuvants used in companion animal, wildlife and livestock species (Dodds, 1997; Luján et al, 2013).

A Siberian will climb fences, leap fences, dig under fences, wriggle under gates, even eat through fences, slip through doors and windows, slip out of collars and harnesses... all in the name of an opportunity to explore the world — and get into whatever trouble he or she can find: hit by moving traffic as the Siberian Husky has no street sense or homing instinct whatsoever, free to chase and kill cats and other small pets, get into dogfights, chase horses and cattle (thus being at risk for injury by kicking or being shot by livestock owners), find poisoned or spoiled meat, pick up ticks and other parasites.

If two or more dogs kept by two or more owners or keepers injure or kill any livestock or poultry at the same time, the owners or keepers of the dogs are jointly and severally liable for the damage.

A paper written by Benjamin Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust coming from Iceland, where the eruption of Laki volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island's livestock and a catastrophic famine which killed a quarter of the Icelandic population.

...) through Ontario's Livestock, Poultry and Honey Bee Protection Act (the categorizer in me is delighted by this title, though the act leads off ominously with «When dogs may be killed.»)