Sentences with phrase «of tiger population»

In November 2011, a wild Amur tiger was captured on camera for the first time in an area of northeastern China — a key finding for the breeding and resettlement of the tiger population in the region.

The first ever overall nation - wide estimate of the tiger population brought a positive ray of hope among conservationists.

The wildlife sanctuary and its environs was the source of inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and is known for housing one of the highest densities of tiger population in the country.

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.»

Not exact matches

With 66 % of its population under the age of 35, India is set to reap an unprecedented 40 - year demographic dividend similar to those enjoyed by industrializing Europe and the Far Eastern «tiger» states at the peak of their growth.

People think there are so many of our population in favor of no gun control but the NRA is currently a paper tiger and not as large as one would think.

NEW DELHI — Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space (ScienceNOW, 6 June), researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can help them estimate the cat's numbers in the wild.

«This is how we will monitor tiger populations and how they move around the landscape in the future,» predicts George Amato, director of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

«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.

Its latest estimate of 3642 — out of a worldwide population of roughly 7500 tigers — is roughly 5 % lower than 3 years ago.

Research has estimated that extinction of small populations of tigers is 65 percent more likely when they're exposed to CDV.

«In addition to the unpredictability of a shark attack over such a large area, it is possible that fishing of tiger sharks has reduced their populations to levels that no longer pose a significant threat to turtles, with other factors becoming more important such as the need to avoid boat strikes»

Pressure from poaching, decimation of their prey base, and habitat fragmentation have diminished the population of Amur tigers (also called Siberian tigers) to fewer than 500.

That finding is profoundly disturbing for wild tigers, given that in most sites where wild tigers persist they are limited to populations of less than 25 breeding adults.1

In fact, additional analysis by WCS and international colleagues has shown that smaller populations of Amur tigers are more vulnerable than larger populations to extinction from distemper.

Dr Fry's team studied the venom of 16 tiger snake populations from across Australia including five island populations in the Bass Strait, and venoms from 11 other snakes in related genera.

Meanwhile Russia has announced the preliminary results of a count of its Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) population: it has found that between 400 and 450 individuals of the critically endangered tiger subspecies roam there.

The country recently ended logging of cedar trees in the tigers» habitat, which not only directly protected the big cats, it also increased the crop of cedar nuts, which fed and helped to boost the population of wild boars, the tigers» favorite prey.

The WWF said it will work with the government of Nepal and local communities in a 9,000 square mile (93,310 square km) region that includes protected areas for tigers, rhinos and elephants in order to stop poaching, increase breeding and to monitor the tiger population.

DiCaprio said a statement that the world's population of 3,200 tigers was endangered by «habitat destruction and escalating illegal poaching.»

«Based on previous work, we knew that during the summer the sand tiger population formed groups in the Delaware Bay, with male and female adults and juveniles all together in the same places, sometimes very close together,» said Danielle Haulsee, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment's School of Marine Science and Policy.

They found that there are now only two habitats large enough to host more than 30 breeding females, an indicator of viable tiger populations over the long term.

To ensure future persistence, tiger populations need to be managed as a network of protected areas connected by corridors.

WCS - Indonesia Country Director and co-author of the paper Dr Noviar Andayani added, «This increasing population trend in Sumatran tigers is a dream come true for all conservationists in Indonesia.

On the other hand, when yellow fever mosquitoes evolve to avoid this type of mating, they may be able to coexist with Asian tiger mosquitoes and repopulate areas from places where their populations are dwindling, Bargielowski said.

Unplanned development in the future will result in loss of connectivity and an increased possibility of extinction for several tiger populations.

Under the most conservative infection scenario, populations of 25 tigers were 1.65 times more likely to go extinct within the next 50 years if canine distemper virus arrived than if the disease never infected a cat.

Mirsky: Yeah, you make the point in the article that in some ways we might not even need to know what the exact population of the world's wild tigers are.

If tigers in the western group remain isolated, «that population, if you ask me, looks like it's headed toward extinction,» says population geneticist Uma Ramakrishnan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.

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.

They looked at how the virus might spread among tigers in the reserve and then simulated what would happen if the virus infected populations of tigers in sizes ranging from three to 288 cats.

The big orange - and - black cats reach sexual maturity at an older age than cats such as leopards and cougars, and tiger populations take longer to recover from the loss of mature individuals.

About half the world's tigers now live in populations of 25 or fewer cats, the researchers report in a study published October 29 in PLOS ONE.

Even in the most habituated tourist reserves, where you have these habituated tigers that you can see, it's only a fraction of the — a small fraction of the population.

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.

In 2010, Till Hanebuth, a geologist at the University of Bremen in Germany, excavated more than a dozen ancient kilns in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigers.

That would allow a population that loses some cats to the virus to recover with the addition of healthy tigers from farther away, improving the likelihood that the group survives the outbreak.

«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.

Disproportionate mortality of males, presumably an important cause of the change in sex ratio of the snow leopard population in Tost, is reported in several carnivores as resulting from human - induced factors such as poaching and retaliatory killing, including Amur tigers in southeast Russia [32], leopards in South Africa [34], and cougars in the Pacific Northwest [33], although there are exceptions (e.g. tiger population in Panna, Central India, that had turned male - biased prior to extinction due to poaching; [36], [37]-RRB-.

This study evaluates the potential impact of CDV on a key tiger population in Sikhote - Alin Biosphere Zapovednik (SABZ), and assesses how CDV might influence the extinction potential of other tiger populations of varying sizes.

Points illustrate the mean probability that a tiger population of given starting size will decline to extinction over 1,000 model simulations both with canine distemper virus (CDV) infection (black dots) and a control scenario without CDV (open diamonds).

CDV infection increased the 50 - year extinction probability of tigers in SABZ by 6.3 % to 55.8 % compared to a control population, depending on risk scenario.

To Brett Wright, dean of the Clemson University College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences, the dwindling tiger populations are an issue demanding the attention of land - grant institutions.

More than 30 million people, especially those in urbanized environments, will reside within the Asian tiger mosquito range, and will be potentially subjected to high biting populations of this species and impending arboviral threats.

It was this kind of hunting that reduced India's Bengal tiger population from an estimated 40,000 a hundred years ago to just 1700 today.

We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations.

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

The train reaches Sawai Madhopur early in the morning and guests proceed for jungle safari in Ranthambore National Park, which is one of the biggest national parks in India especially known for its population of tigers.

This is one of India's largest national parks well - known for its tiger population.