Sentences with phrase «of urban foxes»

So it was almost inevitable that when a baby in Bromley in the suburbs of south - east London was bitten by a fox last week, Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, demanded that the city's many borough councils tackle the «growing problem» of urban foxes, which he called a «pest and a menace».

The MP for the distinctly unrural Fulham and Chelsea, Greg Hands, asked about the extermination of urban foxes, to which the minister, James Paice, replied that «While the extermination of urban foxes, or indeed rural ones, is neither desirable nor possible, problem foxes do need to be controlled.

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We also held a day of friendly games against the Urban Foxes, a London club for which several of our alumni play, and engaged more locally, working with Oxford Spires Academy to encourage young basketballers.

Fox hunting has also emerged as a symbol of tensions between urban and rural Britain.

In urban areas, that is the responsibility of the owner or occupier of the property, who can use legal methods to cull or remove foxes.»

Will the Minister liaise with the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to see whether we can change the law so that urban foxes can be treated as vermin in the same way that rats and mice are?

But it became clear that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's history as Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary of might play in Fox Beach's favor, since he had experience with disaster recovery.

So there you have it, me at the foot of the garden under the weeping birch, cats at my feet, G&T in hand, the roar of the city traffic defeated by the cacophony of urban bird life and, if I'm very still, a mildly curious glance from an all - too - cocky fox.

Fox, two urban planners, Chris Tepper and Paul Kelterborn, and government relations specialist Ethan Geto won warm shout - outs for their dogged efforts to realize their vision in a patch of urban redevelopment for which there were many competing ideas.

The increase in urban breeding colonies in the Netherlands is thought to be due to increased predication of the gulls in their natural breeding grounds by the red fox.

«HPV vaccines could dramatically reduce the incidence of HPV - associated cancers, but uptake of these vaccines is far lower than for other routine childhood and teen immunizations,» said Kevin A. Henry, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia and member of Fox Chase Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention and Control program.

Harris and Smith relied on Canadian estimates of how often urban foxes came into contact with each other.

Britain's emergency plans for an outbreak of rabies, a potential threat with the opening of the Channel Tunnel, are based on inaccurate estimates of how fast the disease is likely to spread among urban foxes.

David MacDonald of the department of zoology at the University of Oxford has found that urban foxes are extremely sociable.

Just how well Just Wright works formula tropes is highlighted by the other chick flick of the week (and, seriously, Fox Searchlight — way to preordain the underachievement a so - deemed «urban» romance with genuine, potential cross-demo appeal by scheduling against a film that on the surface looks more broadly mainstream), Letters to Juliet.

The disease is becoming less common due to regular preventatives, however foxes and stray dogs can carry heartworms and act as a reservoir for the disease on the fringes of urban areas.

The life cycle of the Crenosoma is similar The larvae exist in an infected dog's faeces until picked up by a slug or snail because foxes can also pick up this parasite their poo can also be infected producing, even more, larvae into the environment especially as they roam in more urban areas.

Appalling Problem... In some areas, stray cats and kittens are everywhere and, rather like the large urban fox population, very few of them are fed, so their numbers are similarly controlled by disease, starvation and road accidents.

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

Because wild species such as foxes and coyotes live in proximity to many urban areas, they are considered important carriers of the disease.

The hotel's designers — with the help of one urban fox — succeeded in making the Hilton London Bankside a very guest friendly hotel.

The center plans to monitor a turf war between two squirrel species: the western gray squirrel, which is disappearing from its historic range because of urban sprawl and strong competition from the more adaptable eastern fox squirrel, which was introduced to the region in the early 1900s.

1981 Museum of Contemporary Art: «Twentieth Century NorthAmerican Painters» Sao Paulo, Brazil La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art: «Artists Quilts: Quilts by Ten Contemporary Artists with Ludy Strauss» California Also: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, San Jose, California, and University Art Gallery, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas (catalogue) Art Center College of Design: «DECADE: Los Angeles Painting in the «70's» Pasadena, California Fox Graphics Gallery: «Selected Prints Published by Landfall Press» Boston Washington Project for the Arts: «Neon Fronts: Luminous Art for the Urban Landscape», Washington D.C. James Corcoran Gallery: «Summer Group Show» Los Angeles, California Thomas Babeor Gallery: «A California Summer» La Jolla, CA Tower Gallery, Inc.: «California Artists: Sculpture and Paintings» Southampton, New York Judith Christian Gallery: «Forty Famous Californians» New York Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College: «Professor's Choice» Claremont, California Sheldon Gallery, University of Nebraska: «The Kansas City Show» Lincoln, Nebraska Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge: «Abstraction in Los Angeles, 1950 - 1980: Selections from the Murray & Ruth Gribin Collection»

Gaia, a Maryland Institute College of Art - educated street artist and member of the Baltimore collective Wall Hunters, fills Rice Gallery with his responses to Houston's urban landscape, which he toured with local luminaries from architectural historian Stephen Fox to Project Row Houses director Linda Shearer.

Over the course of the week VIPs from across the globe descended on the iconic urban retreat including: Drake, Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber, Frances Cobain, Swizz Beatz, Selma Blair, Derek Blasberg, Daniel Arsham, Caroline Vreeland, Rocky Barnes, Bryan Boy, Virgil Abloh, Kathy Grayson, Tara Subkoff, Maria Buccellati, Jillionaire, Valentine Uhovski, Wendy White, Rachel Rossen, Eric Yahnker, Julien Pomereau, Alex Becerra, Yano Schieman, Cynthia Rowley, Misha Kahn, Danny Fox, Nino Mier, Michael B Jordan, Amar» e Stoudemire, Olivia Culpo, Timberland, Tash Oakley, Dev Windsor, Jennifer Fisher, Hannah Bronfman, Brendan Fallis, Daniella Midenge, Heron Preston, Swaim Hutson, Asia Blue Shelley, Abbey Drucker, Maxwell Osborne and Dao - Yi Chow.

People in this area have endured years of seeing Labour hatred of the countryside and the people who live there and the imposition by the urban elite of their will over rural folk (ban on fox hunting, closure of village post offices, closure of bus services, ruination of farmers, school closures, neglected roads etc etc).

Laurent Geslin was surprised to learn his mission to photograph European wildlife would take him to the urban heart of London and Barcelona to shoot foxes and falcons.

Tragically, the house has been damaged a number of times by severe floods from the nearby Fox River (since, although Mies designed the house with sufficient clearance for floods, urban and industrial development upriver in ensuing years caused the river to flood more extensively than Mies had anticipated — click here for some horrifying pictures of some recent flooding).

Fox: As a child of a car - dependent suburb in 1960s / 1970s California who has spent almost his entire adult life living in places where one can walk to the store, I was a big believer in the whole urban comeback narrative.