Sentences with phrase «lion population»

Fairness: the hunter was armed, Africa's lion population is dwindling, Cecil had not threatened anyone, Palmer paid US $ 55,000 for a hunting permit in a country where the average household income is less than US $ 4,000

The top three contributions to the decline of the wild African lion population, as addressed by the filmmakers, are: 1.

The extraordinary couple spent years documenting the film in order to spread awareness to the plight of the wild African lion population.

«If it continues, if this is the new normal, the sea lion population and the fur seal population in California are going to have severe drops in their overall population,» Johnson said.

This park is famous for its lion population.

To better understand what's going on with these animals, we work closely with researchers from NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory to study the California sea lion population as a whole.

Population Trends Based on genetic analyses, areas of reproduction and local feeding areas, the global Steller sea lion population has been divided into an eastern and western stock at 144 ° W longitude running through the middle of the Gulf of Alaska.

One third of British Columbia's Steller sea lion population calls Haida Gwaii home and humpback whales may be seen throughout the area.

This engaging narrative describes the annual white shark migration to San Francisco's Farallon Islands, where these skilled predators come to gorge on the abundant seal and sea lion population.

The Serengeti lion population recovered rapidly following the 1994 epidemic [18], and population viability analyses indicated that the impact of periodic epidemics of CDV on the persistence of Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) populations was likely to be slight [2].

It reduced the lion population by approximately 30 % and killed many spotted hyena juveniles.

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

Though it's been known that big cats can be infected with the virus since the 1980s, it wasn't considered a threat to such species until 1994, when the virus swept through the Serengeti lion population, killing 1,000 animals, about 30 percent of the population.

The Serengeti lion population was able to recover from the 1994 event, but Gilbert and colleagues warn that tigers may have a tougher time.

Now the lion population has dwindled to less than a tenth of that.

The dogs are pack animals, and they tried to survive the growing lion population by avoiding it, particularly during the dry season when most lions retreat to the northwestern woodlands.

Another factor in the Serengeti may be that the lion population was at an all - time high when the epidemic hit.

Scientists combined the results of sea lion pup counts in the Channel Islands, aerial surveys of sea lion rookeries, survival rates and other information to reconstruct the growth of the sea lion population from 1975 to 2014.

Their models based on past population shifts predict that an increase of 1 degree C in sea surface temperature off the West Coast will reduce sea lion population growth to zero, while an increase of 2 degrees will lead to a 7 percent decline in the population.

«Given the likelihood that the California sea lion population is approaching carrying capacity, density - dependent effects such as food limitation (and stranding) of pups may be a long - term consequence of a rebuilt sea lion population during periods of low abundance of high - quality forage,» the scientists wrote.

«California sea lion population rebounded to new highs: Sea lion numbers reflect conditions in California Current through the decades.»

The sea lion population is healthy and robust, the new research found, and its recovery over the past several decades reflects an important success for the MMPA.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Indeed, if land managers in Africa were as well funded as Yellowstone National Park, at around $ 4,100 per square kilometer, they could afford to manage the average unfenced lion population at around two - thirds its potential size, a step up from the current status quo.

According to the conservative analysis, there is a 67 percent chance that the West African lion population will be halved 20 years from now, whereas the odds for the East African cats are around 37 percent.

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.

The Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that lion populations have declined by 43 percent in the last 20 years due to habitat loss, dwindling prey populations and humans.

We're doing everything possible under this law to help range countries protect their lion populations and to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of their conservation programs.

But if you look at distemper — canine distemper and feline distemper had been decimating lion populations for years and years and years, and it's from domestic animals infecting wild populations.

They found that each of the nine lion populations in West Africa, save for one, is in decline (and two populations in that area might already be locally extinct).

Another possibility is that the recovery of seal and sea lion populations off the coast of California, thanks again to successful marine protection policies, are giving the sharks more reason to stay in these waters.

The difference could be critical for the future of lions; the study found that almost half of unfenced lion populations may sink to less than 10 % of their potential size over the next 2 to 4 decades.

Led by Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, a team of biologists took a closer look at the diminishing lion populations in Tanzania over the last decade.

Lead author Winston Vickers, an associate veterinarian with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, said fragmentation of mountain lion populations by highways is happening to a serious degree in the Santa Ana mountain range, as well as elsewhere in Southern California, such as the Santa Monica Mountains.

However, conservationists have also found that lion populations decline wherever big - game hunting is legal, as regulations designed to prevent population depletion are undermined by corruption.

Not exact matches

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

I can write a novel's worth on Christian atrocities starting with the Christians throwing the pagans to the lions up till recent history with yugoslavian orthodox christians murdering and raping mass muslim populations.

lion of zion, for the specific population of healthy normal woman with healthy normal pregnancies, they have found that home births actually have better outcomes for both baby and mother — i.e. better apgars, better weight gain after the birth, and other indicators of maternal and baby wellbeing.

Reintroducing mountain lions to the eastern U.S. could save human lives and reduce injuries by lowering deer populations and preventing car — deer collisions.

David Macdonald: It's important for us to understand how lion societies react to mortality of all sorts within the population.

Last November, prompted by fears that the epidemic might spill over into the nearby Ngorongoro Crater, where the small, inbred population of lions is vulnerable to new diseases, Cleaveland vaccinated dogs around the crater.

But Craig Packer, a biologist at the University of Minnesota who is in charge of a long - term study of the Serengeti lions, believes the population will recover as long as the disease doesn't spill over into the park again.

According to a 2013 analysis conducted by Packer, it is cheaper to manage lions in fenced reserves at around $ 500 per square kilometer (not counting the high cost of installing the fence in the first place) than in unfenced areas, where $ 2,000 is only sufficient for managing a population at half its potential density.

Indeed, if lions» wild prey is edged out by the grazing livestock of a swelling African population, they will have no choice but to develop a taste for beef.

A detailed analysis of the lives of nearly a thousand people from birth to age 38 shows that a small portion of the population accounts for the lion's share of social costs such as crime, welfare dependence and health - care needs as adults.

Using DNA from captured mountain lions, he plans to analyse gene flow in the population.

Though California's mountain lions are not endangered, the population is small enough that geographic barriers could lead to reductions in genetic diversity and ultimately population decline.

The lions of Gir, the remnant of a population that once stretched from Greece to India, today number about 320.

I mean, not every zebra of course have, [having] seen many lions eating zebras — but enough zebras do survive, so that their population continues on and that's pretty much the same down with human beings there, though of course in recent years it has gotten a little more challenging because we've become much more cunning and technologically empowered predators than we were before.

The study found that less than one third of the 175 parks and reserves examined are currently conserving lions at more than 50 % of their «carrying capacity» — an ecological term for the natural population levels animals reach if human threats are minimal.