Sentences with phrase «other endangered species»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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).

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.

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.

Once the research team finishes plugging data from other endangered species into his model, Colwell hopes to work out a definitive count that will allow scientists to accurately assess threats from invasive species, habitat conversion, and climate change.

He adds that the same applies to other endangered species of tropical tree with large fruit and seeds dispersed by birds, as evidence from other fragmented tropical forests around the world shows that seeds of this kind are dispersed only locally.

These methods will also benefit other endangered species captive breeding programs that possess similar demographic histories.»

Similar drones have been used around the world to help conserve other endangered species.

«3 - D technology used to help California condors, other endangered species.»

The findings may help conserve this and other endangered species in the future.

The incentive to diminish the incidence of breakdowns will come not only from a beleaguered industry pressured by a public increasingly disillusioned about the treatment of horses, but also from racing's other endangered species, the jockeys.

Not exact matches

Alphas, he wrote in his 1970 book «The Wolf: Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species,» win control of their packs in violent fights with other males.

It seems clear that recognizing and respecting our own animal roots is the key to respecting other animals, including the many that are on the «endangered species» list.

There have been instances when rabbits have become so numerous in a particular region that they have endangered the food supply of other species.

In fact, we're endangering every OTHER species on earth because of our rapid rate of reproduction.

But just as it is possible for some to believe that counterculturists are not quite on the verge of becoming an endangered species, so it is still possible for others to believe that C. P. Snow was mainly right.

In any case, whatever Neuhaus or «many» others think, for the record, sociology is hardly «an endangered species.»

And yes I would use the Plugra and Panther bar chocolate (85 %) by endangered species (and no I have no affiliation with that company other than loving the chocolate).

Available data demonstrate that organic management of rice paddy fields provides optimal foraging areas for birds and is beneficial to many endangered species of birds, such as the cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), little egret (Egretta garzetta), grey heron (Ardea cinerea), purple heron (Ardea purpurea), purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides), black - winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus) and many others.

On the other side of the spectrum, a bill that threatened to gut the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act was not passed.

The magnificent beaches of the Cape Cod National Seashore provide important nesting and migration habitat for the threatened piping plover and endangered roseate tern along with other species.

Blanding's turtles, an endangered species in Illinois and a half - dozen other states, are getting a head start on survival at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Sept. 13: Blanding's turtles, an endangered species in Illinois and a half - dozen other states, are getting a head start on survival at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Notebaert Nature Museum Raises 131 Endangered Baby Turtles - Chicago Tonight - September 13, 2016 Blanding's turtles, an endangered species in Illinois and a half - dozen other states, are getting a head start on survival at the Peggy Notebaert NatuEndangered Baby Turtles - Chicago Tonight - September 13, 2016 Blanding's turtles, an endangered species in Illinois and a half - dozen other states, are getting a head start on survival at the Peggy Notebaert Natuendangered species in Illinois and a half - dozen other states, are getting a head start on survival at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Some examples include restoring funding for the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, restoration of streams and habitat, and successful passage of the 2002, 2009, and 2014 Environmental Bonds, which provide funding for state land protection and other environmental programs.

Now, on the 10th annual Endangered Species Day, Shedd, Lincoln Park Zoo, Brookfield Zoo and the 226 other accredited members of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) are harnessing their collective knowledge and resources in a new initiative, AZA SAFE: Saving Animals From Extinction.

The awardee is Carolyn Mostello, a coastal waterbird specialist for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (Mass Wildlife) who has devoted her career to restoring populations of federally endangered roseate terns and other island nesting species in Buzzards Bay.