Sentences with phrase «population of black bears»

Northern Vancouver Island is home to an abundant population of black bears.

«Not addressing these issues would mean another year of suffering and abuse for thousands of animals in the puppy mill and greyhound race industries, and the loss of the protection for the threatened black bear,» said Jennifer Hobgood, Florida state director for The HSUS, «This survey confirms that Floridians oppose greyhound racing, puppy mill abuses, and the trophy hunting of the still recovering population of black bears.

According to Wildsafe BC, British Columbia has one of the highest populations of black bears in the world — between 120,000 and 150,000 animals.

In addition to providing habitat for the Mexican spotted owl, this would protect the populations of black bears, turkeys, mule deer and tassel - eared squirrels.

The area is home to the nation's largest populations of black bears, moose, loons, native brook trout, and Canada Lynx.

Not exact matches

«New York's black bear population is currently estimated at a minimum of 6,000 - 8,000 bears in areas open to hunting, with roughly 50 - 60 percent of the bears inhabiting the Adirondack region, about 30 - 35 percent in the Catskill region and about 10 - 15 percent in the central - western region.

According to Cornell University researchers, the black bear population is growing in parts of New York state.

This should lead to tremendous advances in time - domain astronomy: studying fast - changing phenomena as they occur — black holes being born, supernovas exploding — as well as locating potentially Earth - threatening asteroids and mapping the little - understood population of objects orbiting out beyond Neptune.

Fifteen percent of the affected populations at two sites bore brown - black growths, some of them raised and almost scablike.

A hidden population of black holes born less than one second after the big bang could solve the mystery of dark matter

With habitat fragmentation, the wall could cut off ocelot, as well as black bear, populations in Texas and Mexico from other members of their species, leaving some populations too small to persist.

«We have a pretty good understanding of the overall population of stars in the universe and their mass distribution as they're born, so we can tell how many black holes should have formed with 100 solar masses versus 10 solar masses,» Bullock said.

«In fact, a study looking at the genetic and morphological variability of Asian Black Bear populations throughout the geographic distribution of the species is yet to be conducted, and it would surely yield exciting results,» Gutiérrez said.

Vermejo Park is home to abundant wildlife populations, including large herds of elk, deer, pronghorn antelope and bison, along with black bears, mountain lions, and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.

A recent survey reveals that Florida voters strongly oppose trophy hunting of Florida's recovering black bear population, and support efforts to crack down on puppy mills and stop forcing greyhound tracks to offer excessive amounts of live greyhound racing — three pressing animal welfare issues in the state.

It is estimated that there are more than 120,000 Black Bears in British Columbia and over 7000 Black Bears on Vancouver Island making it one of the more dense places in the world for this bear population.

The untamed forces of wilderness have reclaimed Cape Scott Provincial Park including migrating birds, a healthy wolf population and roaming black bears.

That was a time of famine and resultant plague as weakened, starving populations succumbed to the rat & flea borne Black Death.

The same violence that has killed thousands of people in South Asia's disputed Kashmir region is responsible for a 30 to 60 percent increase in the population of endangered Asiatic black bears, reports Toronto's Globe and Mail.

Those in favor of the hunt argue that bear populations need to be controlled as there are 4,350 black bears in Florida today, compared to several hundred in the 1970s when the species was first declared endangered.