Sentences with phrase «population of wild boars»

The country recently ended logging of cedar trees in the tigers» habitat, which not only directly protected the big cats, it also increased the crop of cedar nuts, which fed and helped to boost the population of wild boars, the tigers» favorite prey.

At Chernobyl, populations of wild boar, elk, roe deer, and wolves increased significantly in the decade after the accident.

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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has welcomed Defra's decision to allow landowners to decide the priorities for the management of wild boar populations.

Using annual population estimates from the Russian Federal Agency of Game Mammal Monitoring database, researchers analyzed trends of eight large mammals — roe deer, red deer, reindeer, moose, wild boar, brown bears, lynx, and gray wolves — in Russia from 1981 to 2010, a time period that includes the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

The analysis uncovered major changes in population growth; with the exception of wolves, all species experienced a drop in population growth rates immediately following the collapse, and three species — wild boar, moose, and brown bears — exhibited significant reductions in population growth throughout the decade following the collapse, with declines evident in 85 % or more of the study regions.

All of the New Guinea domestic pigs and those of the islands in the tropical Pacific Ocean carry DNA from those southeast Asian wild boar populations.