Field investigations
of wildlife mortalities.
Over 200 organizations — the largest coalition ever assembled on the issue
of wildlife mortality from feral cats — joined ABC and signed on to a letter requesting that the U.S. Department of Interior prohibit feral cat colonies on public lands.
Not exact matches
No sure
mortality estimates exist for the practice, but a report (pdf) issued by the
wildlife trade — monitoring organization TRAFFIC estimates that 30 to 55 percent
of all birds that enter the
wildlife trade do not survive.
«This «cryptic» nature
of infectious disease witnessed amongst Darwin's frogs in Chile could potentially be causing similar «slow - burn» declines among
wildlife species elsewhere — contributing to longer - term population declines and extinctions despite the lack
of obvious mass -
mortalities.»
While canine distemper has been known for many years as a problem affecting domestic dogs, the virus has been appearing in new areas and causing disease and
mortality in a wide range
of wildlife species, including tigers and lions.
In a 1999 article
wildlife ecologist Joel Brown noted that the nonlethal effects
of predators can be ecologically more important than the direct
mortality they inflict.
Energy company BP faces civil penalties based in part on the number
of birds and other
wildlife lost in the spill, therefore the
mortality estimates could influence the amount the company will be required to pay.
«The places are just disasters,» says Craig Thompson, a
wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service and lead author
of a 2014 paper showing that proximity to illegal cultivation sites affects fisher
mortality rates.
Following previous outbreaks
of the virus in northeastern Gabon and in the northwest
of the Republic
of the Congo in 2001, the Gabonese and Congolese ministries
of forestry and environment, along with several
wildlife organizations, implemented a temporary Animal
Mortality Monitoring Network.
Birds and Cats FWS claims that «free - roaming cats kill at least one billion birds every year in the U.S., representing one
of the largest single sources
of human - influenced
mortality for small native
wildlife,» [1] supporting the assertion with just three sources, one
of which is Rich Stallcup's 1991 article from the Observer, a publication
of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.
«Our findings suggest that free - ranging cats cause substantially greater
wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source
of anthropogenic
mortality for U.S. birds and mammals,» Marra and his co-authors conclude.
(Washington, D.C., January 29, 2013) A new peer - reviewed study published today and authored by scientists from two
of the world's leading science and
wildlife organizations — the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (FWS)-- has found that bird and mammal
mortality caused by outdoor cats is much higher than has been widely reported, with annual bird
mortality now estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion and mammal
mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals.
Feral and free - roaming cats are efficient predators, and their abundance results in substantial annual
mortality of wildlife.
Dr. Krysten Schuler,
wildlife disease ecologist with the Cornell University College
of Veterinary Medicine's New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC), explains how the New York State
Wildlife Health Program — a partnership between AHDC and the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation that examines
wildlife mortalities — recently discovered that out
of 300 bald eagles tested in New York state, 17 percent had lead levels high enough to cause death from lead poisoning.
Admittedly, people are the cause
of many accidental
wildlife mortalities.
«There is a huge environmental price that we are paying every single day that we turn our backs on our native
wildlife in favor
of protecting non-native predatory cats at all cost while ignoring the inconvenient truth about the
mortality they inflict,» Michael Hutchins, CEO
of The
Wildlife Society, said in a statement released with the gray catbird study.
According to
wildlife biologists, the reproductive and offspring
mortality rates
of free - roaming cats are similar to wild carnivores.
«There is a huge environmental price that we are paying every single day that we turn our backs on our native
wildlife in favor
of protecting non-native predatory cats at all cost while ignoring the inconvenient truth about the
mortality they inflict.»
«This is an unprecedented
wildlife mortality and is borderline catastrophic,» said Dr. Gregory Bossart, senior vice president and chief veterinary officer
of Georgia Aquarium.
A protozoal - associated epizootic impacting marine
wildlife: mass -
mortality of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) due to Sarcocystis neurona infection.
But Rabinowitz meets local conservationists and scientists determined to hold fast, giving a sense
of hope toward the film's end — but one tempered by hints
of rising
wildlife trafficking — and Rabinowitz's own
mortality.
Selective quoting is important, as Mr. Wiegand has a constant refrain that the US Fish and
Wildlife Service has engaged in a 28 - year long cover - up
of wind farm
mortality, and believes that the very carefully worked out
wildlife mortality counting methodologies employed at wind farms — methodologies developed and vetted by
wildlife biologists, avian preservation groups and the wind industry — consistently undercount avian
mortality.
The study presented in the journal BioScience analyzed 276 published peer - reviewed articles that looked at the landscape effects
of oil, natural gas, and wind production infrastructure worldwide, in order to compare their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services —
wildlife mortality, habitat loss and fragmentation, noise and light pollution, invasive species, and changes in carbon stocks and freshwater resources.
Minimizing
wildlife mortality at wind farms is a major goal
of conservation, although research on how best to do that is in short supply.
«There is a huge environmental price that we are paying every single day that we turn our backs on our native
wildlife in favor
of protecting non-native predatory cats at all cost while ignoring the inconvenient truth about the
mortality they inflict.»