Sentences with phrase «one's original habitat»

Pissinatti says the only solution is to find an area close to the capuchins» original habitat where it would do little damage.

They can also provide safe havens for species whose original habitats no longer suit them and nurseries to repopulate areas damaged by low oxygen and lack of nutrients.

Although shade coffee farms can provide habitat for some species, they do not possess the complete suite of species or ecosystem functions as the original habitat.

A first greenhouse trial indicated that the plants grew much better in soil samples from the areas in northern Sweden where the lodgepole pine has been introduced, compared with the soil samples from its original habitat in Canadian British Columbia.

The original habitat may be lost or contaminated with chytrid, which lasts for an unknown time even after the amphibians it parasitizes disappear.

«Now that we know that it is the original stick insect, there is a much stronger case» for releasing it into the original habitat, says evolutionary biologist and study coauthor Sasha Mikheyev of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan.

«The main reasons for its decline are the destruction of its original habitat (rhenosterveld) and invasives like Port Jackson (Acacia saligna).

But the formation of mountains and the desiccation of Tibet forced the populations to gradually move out of their original habitats towards the south into the Himalayas that were rising upwards,» outlines Dr. Joachim Schmidt of the University of Rostock.

It has caused tremendous damage to fisheries in the Black Sea after arriving in ballast water from its original habitat along the East coast of North America.

Furthermore, many of the most threatened tropical species are restricted to 20 or so biodiversity hotspots, which are sites that have lost more than 70 percent of their original habitat.

CI defines these as forests that have lost more than 90 % of their original habitat and which harbor at least 1,500 plant species that are found nowhere else in the world.

The millions spent on California condor preservation in captivity will be wasted unless an environment can be created that simulates their original habitat — lots of big carcasses free of pesticides and poisonous lead bullets; few people with firearms anxious to shoot at anything that moves.

Passenger pigeons, for example, will initially be bred in captivity by zoos, then placed into netted woods, and then finally re-introduced to portions of their original habitat — America's eastern deciduous forest.

Students can also record speculative information, such as how old they think the object is or what it's original habitat might be.

In their original habitat, Chinchillas use this defense mechanism against predators when caught.

accepts more than 3,000 animals per year from Austin Animal Center; often those animals needing the most intensive medical or behavioral help, and also runs a Barn Cat Program which rehomes unsocialized cats who can not be returned to their original habitat as «working cats» at businesses, ranches, and stables.

Trap / neuter / return (TNR) is a comprehensive management plan in which homeless, free - roaming (community) cats are humanely trapped, evaluated and sterilized by a licensed veterinarian, treated for parasites, vaccinated against rabies, and then returned to their original habitat.

The Supreme Court ruled that street cats have the right to live on the streets and that it's prohibited to move the cat from its original habitat (unless the cat constitutes a serious health risk).

While KHS believes the best place for a feral cat to live is exactly where it is, we recognize at times feral cats must be relocated from their original habitat.

Under standard TNR practice community cats are humanely trapped, evaluated and sterilized by a licensed veterinarian, vaccinated against rabies and distemper and then returned to their original habitat.

When Jacksonville first started its Feral Freedom program in August 2008, there was a 50 % reduction in euthanasia immediately as half of the cats entering the shelter system qualified as community cats and were returned to their original habitat after sterilization, vaccination and ear tipping.

These groups understand that the best practice is to neuter, vaccinate, and allow feral cats to remain in their original habitat along with their colony members.

Trap - neuter - return (TNR) is a management technique in which homeless, free - roaming (community) cats are humanely trapped, evaluated and sterilized by a licensed veterinarian, vaccinated against rabies, and then returned to their original habitat.

Consequently, returning cats to their original habitat following sterilization can not be construed as abandonment.

Habitat Its original habitat extended from the Northern Rocky Mountains to Southern Alberta in Canada.

Avid birdwatchers should keep an eye out for the Island Scrub Jay, Santa Cruz's unique blue jay species and only bird currently in North America that claims an island as its original habitat.

Creatures are collected in the spring and carefully returned to their original habitat at the end of the season.

The paintings in the exhibition retain their relationship to their original habitats, as well as their various means of extraction.

The exhibition is an environmental menagerie of objects and sounds severed from their original habitats, to re-form as one body in the throws of readjustment, surrender and transcendence.

Hence, the wood, transformed through transaction, will return to its original habitat.

Then over consumption, overproduction and overpopulation of the human species would commandeer remaining wilderness and original habitats, extinguish global biodiversity, degrade global ecosystems, dissipate natural resources and eventually ravage the planet.

Seeking to restore any original habitat strikes me as a lost and unnecessary cause.

«Passenger pigeons, for example, will initially be bred in captivity by zoos, then placed into netted woods, and then finally re-introduced to portions of their original habitat — America's eastern deciduous forest.

And if the original habitat was carbon - rich peatland, the carbon balance would take more than 600 years.