Sentences with phrase «manage wild populations»

It will also help the estate manage its wild population of Sika deer.

Not exact matches

According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than 85 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of agricultural crops worldwide.

The task force had called on USDA to monitor populations of native and wild bees, not just managed honey bees.

These are some of the questions that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) says it needs to answer before it can decide whether to continue managing the only population left in the wild.

The study suggests that some diseases are being driven into wild bumblebee populations from managed honeybees.

He says the findings could be used to track and manage wild wolf populations better, and help mitigate conflict with farmers.

He is Director of Genetics at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and oversees research efforts in cell culture and cryobanking, cytogenetics, population genetics, conservation breeding, evolution and systematics, and applications of genomics technologies to conservation efforts for managed and wild populations of threatened and endangered species.

We are dedicated to managing our domestic and wild animal population in a manner that provides a safe and healthy environment for both animals and people.

It is also important to manage the populations of wild canines.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

However, because 71 percent to 94 percent of a population must be sterilized, with no immigration, to reduce its size — and because people constantly release cats into the wild — managed cat colonies can persist for decades, if not forever.

Hence, a growing trend in the U.S., and particularly in the states of Florida and California, is to attempt to manage populations of feral cats by trapping, sterilizing and vaccinating them, and then releasing them back into the wild.

Development and validation of a quantitative PCR for rapid and specific detection of California sea lion adenovirus 1 and prevalence in wild and managed populations.

The lower the population the more options we have for retaining and managing wild areas.

Perhaps more importantly, we can now point to the 20th century as a time period in which most of the biosphere (55 %) came to be transformed by human populations and their use of land — heralding the end of the wild biosphere and the emergence of a human - managed anthropogenic biosphere; yet another indicator that we have entered the anthropocene.