Sentences with phrase «of wildlife officials»

Mariners share the concern of wildlife officials and environmental groups, said Dick McKenna, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California, which monitors all vessel traffic in and out of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.

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For the ninth consecutive year, the success rate of deer hunters in North Dakota in 2017 was below the 70 percent threshold that state wildlife officials consider a good season.

Since our founding in 1896, Mass Audubon has joined with partner organizations, scientists, government officials, conservationists, and community activists to protect and maintain the natural heritage of Massachusetts for people and wildlife.

Residents and environmentalists argued that the development would destroy valuable oak savannahs, high quality wetlands and wildlife - a concern recently echoed by officials from the Army Corps of Engineers, village officials said.

The wildlife sanctuary and working farm will mark its new status as a waypost on the BCT with a Saturday, July 15 celebration, which will include an official ribbon - cutting and, fittingly, a volunteer stewardship party focusing on a section of a Drumlin Farm trail that will now be shared with the Bay Circuit.

These core areas emphasize responding and providing support in times of emergency, nursing animals back to health, returning animals back to their environments or providing a home for those that are deemed non-releasable by wildlife officials.

Last year, state officials floated the possibility of protecting wildlife species by shutting Indian Point during the summer months — which would essentially erase its profitability — during the separate ongoing negotiations over its water withdrawal certificate required as part of its re-licensing.

The program's goal is to train volunteers to serve as citizen scientists, documenting shoreline conditions along Alabama's shoreline using GPS coordinates and alerting officials and COAST partners to the presence of oil and / or affected wildlife.

Help monitor shoreline conditions along Alabama's coast and alert officials of places where oil washed ashore and where wildlife was (and is) affected

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

Schaller: (laughs) As far as the wildlife refuge, I got a whole page of quotes by everything from presidents down to oil company executives, but the number of lies and the amount of ignorance that's displayed is horrendous in our government officials.

«This research highlights a common problem in the illegal wildlife trade — the invisibility of trades that have not been researched and are not recognised in official government databases.»

When wildlife officials began noticing elevated mercury levels in waterfowl in the lake's wetlands, at around the same time geoscientists found highly elevated mercury in the depths of the lake, they all thought a connection between the ducks and the deep brine layer was likely.

(Reuters)- Bats in Wisconsin and Michigan have been infected with a disease that has killed millions of the mosquito - eating mammals elsewhere in the U.S. and could have a detrimental impact on farming and forestry, wildlife officials said on Thursday.

An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

Traffic says wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah, where the records were seized, have too little money even to fuel their patrol boats to pursue smuggling vessels.

Because of white nose syndrome, mounting public pressure and scrutiny from wildlife officials have become a major motivator for wind energy companies to figure out how to prevent bat deaths.

(Reuters)- An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.

In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next century.

The scientists, including several retired former officials from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, said in a letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington that drilling for oil and gas in the refuge would be «incompatible with the purposes for which the refuge was established,» protecting fish and wildlife populations and the environments in which they live.

Florida wildlife officials are recruiting the general public for «python patrols» that teach them how to identify and even capture some of the hissing, snapping reptiles

The largest source of «clean» energy is not reducing carbon emissions by as much as official figures claim — and it is causing immense harm to the poor and to wildlife

More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal wildlife officials.

On June 27, 2009, High Tech High biotech teacher Jay Vavra and several of his students returned to Tanzania to hold a bushmeat - identification workshop to help local wildlife - protection officials fight poaching.

Osceola County animal control officers are putting their traps away after Health Department officials decided last week to halt a practice of trapping and killing wildlife when a rabies case is discovered.Before Friday, whenever a rabies case was confirmed, traps were set in the area where the rabid animal lived.

Florida wildlife officials are proposing a tough policy of ridding public hunting areas of feral cats and also cracking down on feral cat shelters anywhere near threatened or endangered species of wildlife.

Research by wildlife officials revealed a startling finding: the Tasmanian devil population was being rapidly decimated by a new type of infectious cancer.

«Many citizens and public officials have voiced concerns about the public health issues and wildlife issues involved in hoarding large numbers of cats in the wild.

The amount of wildlife displaced and killed by the tornadoes was relatively low, officials said.

Oregon wildlife officials shot and killed two wolves from a helicopter Wednesday in an attempt to reduce killings of cattle by...

While there is no silver bullet to the problem of too many cats, all avenues should be explored, including euthanizing cats that public health or wildlife officials deem problematic, the authors note.

Alaska Geographic is a non-profit bookstore, publisher, educator, and supporter of Alaska's public lands — and the official non-profit partner of Alaska's 15 national parks, 16 national wildlife refuges, and America's two largest national forests, plus a variety of other public lands.

Declared an official wildlife reserve in 2006 by the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Tobago Cays Marine Park is home to an array of colorful fish, sea turtles and other fascinating marine creatures — a perfect destination for snorkeling or scuba diving.

With a stable, peaceful democratic government and English as its official language, families can enjoy the time of their lives in Belize as they explore ancient lost cities, see wildlife up close and in person, splash in the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean and enjoy plenty of fun in the sun.

CC Lockwood's color photographs of the nature and wildlife of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast include the photograph, Flat Lake Sunset, which was selected by the U.S. Postal Service as the image for the official Louisiana Bicentennial commemorative stamp.

Pressed by hunting and habitat loss along its range from Florida west to coastal Texas and north to the Carolinas, the species was so depleted that by 1966 federal wildlife officials deemed it was in danger of vanishing and extended legal protections to the reptile.

There are promising signs, including a set of meetings, described in March by China Daily, between Chinese and American officials pursuing ways to cooperate in stemming the trade in illicit wildlife products, including totoaba swim bladders (which often get to China through the United States).

Environmentalists said they hoped that the widely publicized event, which was attended by state officials, foreign diplomats and wildlife campaigners, would raise awareness within China of the dramatic scale of elephant poaching.

Conservation Justice, one of the private groups working with Gabonese authorities to curb wildlife trafficking, is encouraging people to send congratulatory notes to Kouma Zaou and other officials leading the effort.

On June 19th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushed a ton of seized illegal ivory in New York's Times Square, and last week top officials from the United States and China focused on combating wildlife trafficking at the annual Strategic & Economic Dialogue.

More than 10,000 migrating birds in the U.S. have died from an outbreak of avian cholera caused by reduced water flowing through marshlands of Oregon and California, according to federal wildlife officials.

In this corner of Georgia, where temperatures have been over 100 and rainfall has been off by more than half, fish and wildlife officials are worried over the health of the shinyrayed pocketbook and the oval pigtoe mussels, both freshwater species on the endangered species list.

Elected officials — Democrat and Republican alike — who are onboard with President's Obama's «Green» assault in the name of halting «climate change» — are complicit in destroying the rural fabric, environment, and wildlife that is the grandeur of America, including the slaughter of our nation's bald and golden eagles.

Since the beginning of July, at least 124 bottlenose dolphins have washed ashore on the east coast of the US, all of them either dead or dying, and wildlife officials say that a fast - spreading infection could be behind the deaths.

The Wildlife Conservation Society is congratulating Thailand officials for their exceptional enforcement of wildlife protection laws in the...

Interior officials have said that the current federal budget for the nation's wildlife refuge system is insufficient to prevent the continued ingestion of lead paint by Laysan albatross chicks.

But elsewhere in Asia, work is moving ahead to turn another area more associated with conflict than conservation into a sanctuary for at - risk elephants.A year and a half after Sri Lanka's quarter - century civil war ended, officials have announced plans to use more than 100,000 acres of jungle — the former stronghold of the Tamil Tigers separatists — to help protect wildlife, The Guardian reported today.

But while wildlife officials in Africa continue to do their part to keep poachers at bay, U.S. federal agents have begun to dismantel important elements of the illegal trade of wildlife elsewhere.

Florida votes to crack down on freshwater turtle trade Florida wildlife officials tentatively approved a new rule that will ban most freshwater turtle harvests to protect the populations of roughly 19 species.

And to take your mind off wildlife for a moment, go to the official site for the Serengeti National Park, where, on the home page, you'll find a beautiful shot of the land around Seronera, a small hamlet in the park.