Sentences with phrase «other endangered»

Demand for rhino horn, ivory and other products made from parts of tigers, turtles and other endangered species is increasing in China and the Far East as living standards rise.

Mongabay reports that Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University of Zürich and PanEco have created a conservation drone complete with cameras, sensors and GPS to map deforestation and count orangutans and other endangered species in northern Sumatra.

In the drive to produce more palm oil, for use in food and health products or in biodiesel, more and more forest is chopped down — in the process releasing vast amounts of stored carbon in the soil and reducing the carbon storage potential of the region, as well as destroying habitat for orangutans and other endangered species.

An ecologist and a biologist have created a conservation drone complete with cameras, sensors and GPS to map deforestation and count orangutans and other endangered species in northern Sumatra.

The team wants to get more people using the app and helping to monitor tigers and they plan to eventually expand it to work with other endangered animals.

Bears, rhinoceroses, a variety of reptiles and amphibians and other endangered animals considered delicacies or thought to have medicinal properties routinely fall victim to the black market.

The Sumatran Tiger Conservation Program is working with local partners to incorporate this area within the park, doubling the size of the protected area for tigers and other endangered wildlife.

As the people of Tuvalu, Shishmaref and other endangered communities say, why should they pay for the problems they did not create, even though global warming is destroying their societies?

Or tuck into your bowl of Cheerios happily knowing that doing so won't be helping General Mills contribute to killing orangutans and other endangered species, nor trampling on

If you have been worrying about pandas, elephants, or other endangered species, it is time to start looking closer to home... because things could look quite different within your lifetime.

The conservancy will use the drones to track the movements of all of its 110 rhinos each day and hope to expand the drone program as well as start using even more technology like unique radio frequency ID tags for each of the rhinos and other endangered animals in the park in the near future.

Top predators have important roles to play in ecosystems, and while they might not seem as cuddly as other endangered animals, that shouldn't stop us from protecting them just as vehemently as we would protect other creatures!

Forests in Asia, home to elephants, tigers and other endangered species — are often cleared to make room for growing rubber trees.

, the elephants, orangutans, Whooping Cranes, California Condors, black footed ferrets and so many other endangered animals will thank us.

Unfortunately, the price of all this «growth» is paid for by other endangered plant and animal species.

The anti-people zealots are now demanding even greater protections for these wolves, who routinely kill other endangered or threatened species and pose genuine threats to people despite claims that wolves do not attack humans.

A court settlement filed today requires the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure that toxic oil - dispersing chemicals used in federal waters off California will not harm sea turtles, whales and other endangered species or their habitats.

Likewise, hunting remains a serious threat, even though international and national laws prohibit the killing of apes and other endangered animals.

We look forward especially to some work with other endangered dog species such as the dhole (Cuon alpinus) or the South American bush dog (Speothos venaticus.)

This fall, rangers protecting rhinos, tigers and other endangered wildlife in Nepal's famous Chitwan National Park will get a solar system that will light and power an isolated ranger outpost deep in the jungle.

The concession comprises 16,857 ha of secondary forest identified as the habitat of the Bornean orangutan, clouded leopard, critically endangered flora and dozens of other endangered species.

Of about 2.6 million hectares of land that burned between June and October 2015, 33 per cent were carbon - rich peatland ecosystems, which are home to orangutans and other endangered species.

These waters are home to polar bears, walrus, bowhead whales and other endangered species.

Africa - CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — It may seem unlikely that a tree known locally as «red stinkwood» would elicit the kind of attention shown to other endangered African species.

A briefing on how leading bank HSBC is bankrolling unsustainable plantation expansion which is systematically destroying forests crucial to the survival of the Bornean orangutan and other endangered species..

If Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency does not implement restrictions on pesticides advocated in a recent National Marine Fisheries Services report, environmental activists and commercial fisheries hoping to preserve Pacific Northwest stocks of «salmon, sturgeon, orca and other endangered species» may file...

With its nearly unlimited scope, largely unregulated access and relative anonymity, the Internet has emerged as the preferred method for the illicit trade of elephant ivory and other endangered animals and their parts.

For these beautiful turtles and many other endangered species, it's a precarious time where efforts to save them need to be ramped up, before they are lost forever.

The reserve is incredibly important though because it is home to a large population of elephants and other endangered species and serves as the headquarters for the organization Save the Elephants and its many conservation programs.

Palm oil plantations decimate orangutan populations and threaten other endangered species such as tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants indigenous to Malaysia and Indonesia, the two countries that produce 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

I don't think the public views polar bears the same way as most other endangered species and this is one of the reasons that we laid out some of the options.

I'm not opposed to control of animal populations when they are meaningfully threatening human populations or other endangered species.

The project features documentary video and photography of Kresberg's experience working with vultures, pangolins and other endangered species in Africa with the Rare and Endangered Species Trust (REST).

Let me stalk deer, elephants, rhinos, tigers, all sorts of other endangered animals through the tundra, jungles, African grasslands, all that shit.

To that end we took a seven day cruise with Variety Cruises on a motor yacht with 24 other people that visited eight islands seeing not only the everyday life in villages but the dedicated volunteers who live on the outer islands to preserve the giant tortoises, turtles and other endangered species for our children and grandchildren to enjoy in the future.

Chabil Mar is also ideally situated close to some of the top parks and nature reserves in the country where jaguars and other endangered species are allowed to thrive in protected habitats.

You will also come across several other endangered species of animals such as the Antillean Manatee who only breeds in this atoll system.

Hear her story about the greed and corruption of those who will and do exploit wild tigers and other endangered species.

Blood of the Tiger is a story set against China's ascendance to power and the global fight against the forces of greed on behalf of tigers and other endangered species.

Lightly fictionalized narratives tell of Tortuga Squad members saving other endangered species.

Your students may use their Web pages as guides for writing simple reports on other endangered species.

Further resources can be found in my shop regarding other endangered animals.

I do NOT recommend eating fish or taking fish oil as our oceans are dying from these things... there's just no such thing as sustainable fishing anymore and it's so bad that the government uses our taxes to massacre dolphins and seals and other endangered marine life, for eating the fish they're meant to, instead of stopping the reason fish are so depleted in the first place, commercial fishing.

The genomic analysis found that the level of diversity between the four individuals amounted to approximately 2 million variable mutations, which is roughly similar to overall diversity exhibited by other endangered carnivores.

The plight of Lonesome George provided a catalyst for an extraordinary effort by the government of Ecuador to restore not only tortoise populations throughout the archipelago but also to improve the status of other endangered and threatened species.

Yet, I believe there is hope for snow leopards and other endangered high altitude wildlife if we work together.

What may appear unusual for a wildlife biologist is only natural for Charu: «The people who share the habitat of snow leopards and other endangered species can be a threat to these animals, but they are also our most important partners in protecting them», he explains.

There is, thus, hope for other endangered populations, fighting similar demographic issues,» Dr Orlando concluded.

While we all hope and work towards keeping the snow leopard alive in the wild zoo populations also have their role in helping to educate the public about conservation of this and other endangered animals.

«China's protection of giant pandas good for other species too: Panda preserves providing habitat for other endangered, threatened species.»