Sentences with phrase «of conservation concern»

Despite both species being recognised as of conservation concern under international, regional and national plans, very little is known about their populations or biology and hence vulnerability to anthropogenic threats.

Giving important information about areas of potential botanical and ecological interest, this trend is supported by the high level of conservation concern among the newly described species.

Alan Jarrett, Chairman of BASC said: «I welcome the RSPB and scientists» endorsement of pest control as a key action that benefits species, many of which are already of conservation concern, and which could further suffer from climate change.

An additional 184 are species of conservation concern because of their small distribution, high threats, or declining populations.»

The experts attending the Bronx Zoo - hosted Vaccines for Conservation: Exploring the Feasibility of Protecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectious diseases:

However, it is worth remembering that all these species are classed as Birds of Conservation Concern, and the Herring Gull is on the Red List.

Scientists estimate that 30 percent of plant species are now of conservation concern in just the United States alone.

This work identifies areas of conservation concern for Mesoamerican jaguars and underscores the importance of large - scale genetic monitoring efforts when prioritizing conservation and management efforts for this near - threatened, and elusive, carnivore species.

The Prairie Warbler, for instance, a perky yellow bird with streaked sides, has been designated a species of conservation concern following range - wide population declines.

Golden eagles are large - ranging predators of conservation concern in the United States.

But, perhaps because of conservation concerns more desperate than those on the mainland, there's an unsettling tendency to «interpret» scientific evidence in a way that will implicate cats regardless of a study's actual results.

The property provides important habitat for a number of threatened marine species, harbouring a number of species of conservation concern including the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), and the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) as well as endemic and migratory birds which reproduce in the littoral forests of cayes, atolls and coastal areas.

«This paper highlights the potentially huge impact merit releases have on a few birds that are easily caught and are already of conservation concern,» says John Pilgrim, a conservation consultant who specializes in Southeast Asia and Melanesia and who was not involved in the study.

But the threat of canine distemper extends well beyond lions and tigers, and the virus has impacted a number of the world's other carnivores of conservation concern, including the highly endangered Ethiopian wolf and African wild dog, as well as the black - footed ferret in North America, to name just a few examples.

The Burrowing Owl is already a species of conservation concern because modern agricultural practices have removed the prairie dogs and ground squirrels that it depends on to provide nesting burrows.

«As an ecologist, I love working on species of conservation concern,» he says.

«There are more than 350 species of conservation concern in the Sagebrush Sea, of which 60 are listed or candidates for listing under the Endangered Species Act — walking away from the sage - grouse for political expediency could condemn many of these other species to the same imperiled fate down the road.»

These projects target habitats of priority species of conservation concern, and include dam removals, invasive species management, wetland restoration, and more.

Golden eagles are a species of conservation concern, so understanding population - level differences and how individuals interact with turbines is key to meeting a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service target of no net loss to their populations.

«These data are essential for setting and prioritizing marine protection for these species, which are both of conservation concern,» said study co-author Matthew Witt of the University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Unit.

Once heavily hunted for turtle meat — alligator snapper was the main ingredient of Campbell's Turtle Soup in the 1960s — the riverine populations have been deeply depleted and are of conservation concern.

This is a bull trout, a popular fish species of conservation concern, that find shelter in mountain stream climate refugia.

The standard management response to natural disturbances such as windstorms and insect outbreaks is salvage logging, or the removal of affected trees; however, this may have detrimental effects on species of conservation concern.

«We have shown that, on the face of it, there are indeed far fewer marine species of conservation concern; but much of this can be explained by the fact the conservation status of fewer marine species has been formally assessed.»

«And ringtails are similar to fishers in that both are semi-arboreal and of conservation concern.

This suite of techniques indicates promise for restoring vegetation and species of conservation concern in a wider range of degraded and disturbed habitats.

The predation by feral cats includes federally protected species of conservation concern, as well as more common species.

Winter, L. and Wallace, G.E., Impacts of Feral and Free - Ranging Cats on Bird Species of Conservation Concern, G.E. Wallace, Editor.

Already of conservation concern, the Pinyon Jay is projected by Audubon's climate model to be further challenged by climate change.

This sea has as well its own set of emblematic species of conservation concern, such as sea turtles, several cetaceans, and the critically endangered Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus).

While these owls are not usually considered to be a species of conservation concern, it may become the case.

The woodlands that remain cloak river corridors and swamp borders with dark, Gothic forests that serve as critical habitats for such birds as Cerulean and Prothonotary warblers and 28 other species of conservation concern, 14 of them listed in Audubon's newly released report on climate change.