Sentences with phrase «of wildlife mortality»

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.

Field investigations of wildlife mortalities.

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.»