Sentences with phrase «of tiger conservation»

It hasn't hurt that Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, has been a strong supporter of tiger conservation, traveling to the region to help release Amur tigers in 2014.

Before long, the beast struck again, and Trush, leader of a tiger conservation unit, found himself forced to hunt this animal through the brutal cold of a Siberian winter, becoming intimately acquainted with the tiger's history, motives, and unique method of attack — until their harrowing final encounter.

Not exact matches

Samples from the two tigers confirm that they were carrying the distemper virus, says Denise McAloose of the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

«Canine distemper may be a factor in the decline of the population,» McAloose says, adding that any tiger conservation programme needs to tackle the disease.

«This discovery is comparable to finding a living mastodon or saber - tooth tiger,» remarks Piotr Naskrecki of Conservation International, the organization that funded the fieldwork.

The Sumatran tiger is listed as critically endangered on the World Conservation Union's (IUCN's) 2003 Red List of threatened animals.

Addressing these very clear threats remains the top priority for the allocation of scarce tiger conservation resources.

The Sumatran tiger's habitat has been slashed by logging and settlement to just a quarter of the island, with only eight per cent protected as conservation areas, highlights the report.

By easing those threats, the park «is likely to be one of the great tiger success stories» in a decade or two, says Dale Miquelle, a world authority on Siberian tigers and director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Russia Program in Vladivostok.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

Paradoxically, the extinction of the Lord God Bird and the Tasmanian tiger spawned a conservation ethic that may have spared countless other species a similar fate.

«That's allowed them to develop a picture of the distribution of tigers in a way that we haven't had before,» says John Seidensticker, a tiger conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.

«The level of conservation in the toxin sequences is not only really unusual, but this is why the corresponding tiger snake antivenom is so useful in treatments against bites from many Australian snakes that affect the blood in the same way,» Dr Fry said.

Modern conservation efforts tend to center around large animals — such as tigers, elephants, and wolves — and top predators in peril, while Roopnarine and Angielczyk show that small amniotes (reptiles and ancient mammal relatives) were most vulnerable during the early phase of this long - ago period of extinction.

A new scientific publication from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park Authority looks at the effectiveness of the park's protection zone and finds that the density of Sumatran tigers has increased despite the continued threat of living in an «In Danger» World Heritage Site.

Aditya Joshi, a researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Trust and an author on the paper, says, «Conservation of corridors and forest areas outside of the protected area network is critical for long - term demographic and genetic viability of many endangered species and future growth and recovery of tiger populations.»

The data from tigers, lions and snow leopards provides a rich and diverse genome resource that could be used in future studies of conservation and population genomics.

Martin Gilbert of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bronx, New York, and colleagues studied tigers in Sikhote - Alin Biosphere Zapovednik, a nature reserve in the Russian Far East along the Sea of Japan.

Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Ullas Karanth talks about his July, 2016, Scientific American article on state - of - the - art techniques for tracking tigers and estimating their populations and habitat health.

And they make some conservation agencies set these unrealistic targets, saying that, «Okay, we had the tiger summit with Mr. Putin presiding in 2010, so in ten years after that we should have twice the number of tigers.»

Yet crucially, parks agencies and local communities have become dependent on tourism funding, and much of it pays for work that keeps poachers at bay — the key conservation concern for Bengal tigers.

«In lieu of a practical means of delivering [canine distemper virus] vaccines to wild tigers, the most viable strategy to ensure their conservation is the maintenance of large connected populations within protected areas that buffer the effects of local declines,» Gilbert and colleagues write.

Traffic, a wildlife monitoring network which works with WWF and the World Conservation Union, says the number of Sumatran tigers that are being illegally poached and sold is dropping.

Her research focuses on the conservation of both the endangered Asian elephant and tiger.

Awareness of CDV is a critical component of a successful tiger conservation management policy.

Leopards are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List as «threatened,» and according to Saffoe, poaching rates are similar to those of tigers.

Mr. Rupani's sixth book after the critically acclaimed Driving Holidays in India and More Driving Holidays in India and India's 100 Best Destinations; the book tracks the wild feline through India's best tiger reserves and was compiled with the support of Land Rover's primary global conservation partner, the Born Free Foundation.

In addition to tiger lore and scalding adventure, Vaillant shows us Russia's far east and its inhabitants, their sometimes desperate lives interwoven with the economics of poaching and the politics of wildlife conservation.

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

Several projects were successfully completed or reached significant milestones, including: First time in 100 years that the global population of wild tigers has increased, with 60 % growth where WWF - Canada works on tiger conservation in Nepal; first ever certified sustainable cod fishery in Canada; first ever national measure of the health of our freshwater ecosystems reaching 75 % completion; and, end of oil exploration interests near Arctic's Lancaster Sound region

Provides interesting articles on tiger conservation and about wild animals of India.

The park is a part of Project Tiger conservation and boasts of a number of tigers in their natural habitat.

Today, as suspected, few of these resources have reached or impacted conservation projects, and tiger populations are still hemorrhaging....

Here's more on «Wild Tigers on a Crowding Planet» and why it's a conservation bargain to invest in building the resilience of the last spots where tigers have a durable foothold.

Two years ago, during the International Forum for Tiger Conservation in St. Petersburg, unattended by Panthera [and covered here], grand promises including a «new» $ 330 million dollar pledge for tiger conservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tigeConservation in St. Petersburg, unattended by Panthera [and covered here], grand promises including a «new» $ 330 million dollar pledge for tiger conservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tigeconservation were made by international NGOs, governments, political leaders, celebrities and others (much of which had already been designated for tiger projects).

Panthera's local partner in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the Hyderabad Tiger Conservation Society, has also worked with the Government to establish tiger reserve status for Kawaal Wildlife Sanctuary.

The Moyar Valley and Sigur Plateau in Southwest India's Western Ghats Complex, that has been a focus of recent WWF conservation efforts, was found to contain more than 50 tigers.

The figures marked the opening of the International Tiger Conservation Conference, a three day meeting following on the heels of the groundbreaking Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), a worldwide plan to bring the species back from the brink of extinction which was forged in November 2010 at an international tiger conservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister VlaConservation Conference, a three day meeting following on the heels of the groundbreaking Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), a worldwide plan to bring the species back from the brink of extinction which was forged in November 2010 at an international tiger conservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister Vlaconservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

India announced the results of its new survey at the first international meeting on tiger conservation since the big Russian conclave last fall at which countries with tiger populations pledged to move from conferences to concrete actions on the ground.

The reserve is largely secure from wildlife traffickers but surrounding buffer zones have been hit by poachers frequenting old roads at night and using spotlights to pick out tigers or other targets, according to Jonathan C. Slaght of the conservation society's Russia program.

Apple will be unveiling a new operating system next year called «Lion» and I wanted to bring to your attention that lions will soon join tigers in terms of conservation status.

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal also stated that the government would establish a National Tiger Conservation Authority as well as a Wildlife Crime Control Committee saying, «The solutions will be area specific, but the future of conservation will depend upon how we act now and how we make tiger conservation and overall biodiversity much more valuable to the livelihoods of local communiConservation Authority as well as a Wildlife Crime Control Committee saying, «The solutions will be area specific, but the future of conservation will depend upon how we act now and how we make tiger conservation and overall biodiversity much more valuable to the livelihoods of local communiconservation will depend upon how we act now and how we make tiger conservation and overall biodiversity much more valuable to the livelihoods of local communiconservation and overall biodiversity much more valuable to the livelihoods of local communities.»

«WWF is alarmed that the loss of forests is taking such a high toll not only on the remaining wild elephants and tigers in Sumatra but also on global climate change,» said Dr Sybille Klenzendorf, director of species conservation at WWF - US.

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.

The designation could increase the area of forest conserved within oil palm plantations provided it has high conservation significance, such as serving as habitat for endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and rhinos.

Five decades of conservation experience has shown us that given enough space, prey and protection, tigers can recover.»

JAKARTA — Conservation authorities in Indonesia are investigating suspicions that the illegal trade in tiger parts drove the killing of one of the rare big cats earlier this month.

In Malaysia, Panthera is working with the Johor State Government as part of of a collaborative project with the Wildlife Conservation Society that aims to increase tiger numbers by 50 percent over a 10 - year period at key sites across the animal's range.

Rabinowitz makes two points which really make you sit up: 1) conservation groups really need to be held accountable for their efforts at big cat conservation, and 2) even with massively reduced habitat tiger populations could be ten times higher than they are today.Rabinowitz says that the world's 2500 - 3000 wild tigers live on just 5 - 7 % of their former range, but even that small about of remaining habitat «could probably hold up to 30,000 tigers right now at reasonable densities.»

With all the tiger focus in the past week, with the start of the Chinese New Year, a really interesting interview in Yale Environment 360 with Alan Rabinowitz of conservation group Panthera.