Sentences with phrase «populations are in danger»

The council's decision is a bit unusual — after all, none of the forage fish populations are in danger of collapse, and only one of the 50 - plus species is harvested on a large scale in the mid-Atlantic today.
When the SPCA first got involved with TNR in the early 1990s, the Golden Gate Park's community cat population was in danger.

Not exact matches

There is hope, however, that warnings might be realistically developed so that populations in danger of the «big one» can be given some sort of reasonable information about probabilities.
And I don't think the world is in any danger of lacking population.
Conversely, it is a dereliction of duty to ignore existing immigration laws and place federal officers in peril and local population in danger for the political gain of either party.
The real danger here is that instead of doing what is in the best interest for our population, they will make decisions placing first their religious beliefs and then whatever else would fall into place.
The other two - thirds will be caught in the population explosion producing extreme hunger, poverty, social unrest, and the constant danger of totalitarian political control.
Even in the face of the dangers implicit in «the population explosion,» all would view voluntary limitation of the number of children born to be the ideal solution.
With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.
On the other hand, there are horrendous dangers of worldwide misery implicit in the threat of nuclear war, extinction by ecological disruption, the explosion of population, and the political problems of governing the world's peoples during a period of such momentous crises.
«Mentally ill» is a vague term that could apply to large swaths of the population that pose no danger while in possession of a firearm.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is an international humanitarian aid organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 80 countries.
The population of wild birds is subject to the dangers resulting from the presence of toxic elements in the environment.
In the United States, population pockets with low vaccination rates (such as in Boulder, Colorado, and Ashland, Oregon) have existed for some time, and the great fear among many governmental medical authorities is that high - profile claims about vaccine dangers will widen the phenomenon, with potentially disastrous consequenceIn the United States, population pockets with low vaccination rates (such as in Boulder, Colorado, and Ashland, Oregon) have existed for some time, and the great fear among many governmental medical authorities is that high - profile claims about vaccine dangers will widen the phenomenon, with potentially disastrous consequencein Boulder, Colorado, and Ashland, Oregon) have existed for some time, and the great fear among many governmental medical authorities is that high - profile claims about vaccine dangers will widen the phenomenon, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Some of these populations appear to be in danger, concludes the study, published online today in Conservation Biology.
The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.
He began to cite the danger of population pressures in poor countries long ago, and the issue is now a focus of development experts in the United Nations, the World Bank and voluntary organizations working to reduce intractable poverty.
But as today's large animal populations become more in danger of extinction, the environment too is at risk.
The hope is that wildlife corridors will allow plants and animals to colonise new areas, or bring much - needed new blood into small populations that are in danger through inbreeding.
The survey documented the presence of the highly endangered northern giraffe Kordofan subspecies, likely to be the last remaining population in CAR and in danger throughout much of its range in Africa.
Many African herds are in serious danger: A recent survey of savanna elephant populations estimated that poachers killed 30,000 animals annually between 2007 and 2014, reducing the population to fewer than 400,000.
The dangers only become more obvious and the need to increase the resilience of cities more urgent when you consider that 50 % of the world's populations now live in cities, and 1.5 million people are migrating to urban areas every week.
Unfortunately, it is still not widely recognized that wild populations of many native bees are also in danger of collapse.
They're also perpetuating painful stereotypes about autism that put an already embattled population in even greater danger.
I can think of one population that «needs» to eat glucose - forming foods, and this is from personal experience: I found while I was nursing that if I ate too little glucose, I made less milk and was in danger of my milk supply drying up.
There are many known health dangers which are known risk factors for obesity and which correlate with low carbohydrate consumption in the general population.
The real dangers are due to exposure to toxins in industrialised populations.
They've all been targeted by an equally secret major drug organization known as The Golden Circle, led by Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore), a woman looking to finally get the respect she deserves as an entrepreneur even it means putting the entire world's population in danger.
Among losses in human lives and material goods, and danger from billions of land mines in war regions all over the world, there is one more, hard, long term legacy of war: trauma — present on both individual and communal level, creating traumatized, dysfunctional societies which capacities to recover and progress are inevitable lessen, according to some authors even lost in genetic degeneration trauma could have on generations of human population long - term.
With increasing population density and more and more cars in the environment, the danger of being killed or badly hurt by a car is a constant threat to free - roaming cats and dogs.
The black rat is not in danger of extinction, and the eradication of the population on Anacapa will not endanger the species.
-- == Guardians of Haven: Zombie Apocalypse features == COMBAT MODE — REAL TIME STRATEGY * Strategy and real - time battle control combine in a variety of combat scenarios * Card battle - based gameplay: customize your deck and upgrade your character * Unlock items, units, and characters that can be used in other Game Modes CITY MODE — MANAGE YOUR RESOURCES * Manage resources for the population and invest in your survivors * Collect materials to build better equipment in other Games Modes * Construct & rebuild the city of Haven and ensure the future of humanity SHOOTER MODE — FPS SNIPER GAMEPLAY * Sniper and assault missions with FPS gameplay in elite operations * Enjoy a variety of mission types, from Horde to Escort to Stealth * Rescue citizens from danger and carry them over to other Game Modes
unregulated growth of absolute global human population numbers from 6.6 billion to a projected 9.2 billion people in 2050 -RCB- is presenting a clear and present danger to life as we know it «Spaceship Earth»?
However, peak oil means a double whammy — it reducec GHG emissions from oil, however, there is the danger, that we switch to coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, tar sands and oil shales, just because increases in energy efficiency, solar and wind output are not enough to counter population increase, decrease in oil availability, and increase in total energy consumption...
These species are already in danger from increasing human population, and migration could be the last nail in the coffin of many species.
One way to avoid the economic dangers in places where population is aging and shrinking is to foster immigration.
The region's population and building booms are far outpacing efforts to reduce exposure to flood dangers, resulting in long - predicted scenarios playing out at high cost in lives and money.
The danger of such regional troubles is increasing in the United States as the population rises and more people move to the coasts, added David Kelly, an associate professor of economics at the University of Miami.
Susan Crockford is a polar bear expert with a message that climate alarmists don't want to hear: polar bear populations are thriving and are certainly in no danger from thinning summer sea ice supposedly caused by «man - made global warming.»
The bitter varieties of this risk irony are virtually endless; among them is the fact, that, in order to protect their populations from the danger of terrorism, states increasingly limit civil rights and liberties, with the result that in the end the open, free society may be abolished, but the terrorist threat is by no means averted.
Populations of dwarf seahorses were already in danger, but the gulf oil spill of 2010 has prompted the Center to file a petition seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the dwarf seahorse.
But we're in danger of forgetting that it concerns a deadly serious matter: a change in the climatic conditions which have made human civilisation and the current human population possible, and, specifically, the degradation of the most wonderful and beautiful of the world's ecosystems into desert and scrubby grassland.
Despite the admission, the IPCC reiterated its concern about the dangers melting glaciers present in a region that is home to more than one - sixth of the world's population.
However, remarkable emphasis is put on the «particular values of the legal order of the Member State» to judge whether a «threat to the calm and physical security of the population» is at stake (para 29); this can be contrasted with the economic and social danger for society at large referred to in Tsakouridis.
It has to be that way because of the size of the damage the problem is inflicting upon the population and upon our courts, so clogged as they are by unrepresented litigants that we are in danger of becoming a legally dysfunctional society.
Libraries and Associations both exist to provide support to a larger population and thanks to today's technology, both entities are in danger of disappearing if they do not prove their value and relevancy to that same population.
Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and Professor, OCAD University described problems with developing a norm or average, highlighting that the danger of creating artificial norms is accentuated with the use of technologies that aggregate averages in a population.
Without their sustainability and care of crops and livestock, our population would be in serious danger.
(1) Our data are derived from children / adolescents (and mothers) referred to our tertiary Headache Center and may not be representative of the whole pediatric population suffering from migraine without aura; (2) The psychological tools employed in our study (TAS - 20, ASQ, SAFA - A, D, and S) have a self - report nature; although, they have been considered valid for psychological screening, they are not suitable for a formal diagnosis of psychiatric disorder; moreover, ASQ, as a self - report questionnaire, may not be able to elicit stress and danger situations, which are indispensable to activate the attachment system; (3) In future studies, it would be important to further explore not only the role of maternal attachment and alexithymia but also the role of maternal migraine features on their children's migraine severity, attachment style, and psychological profilin our study (TAS - 20, ASQ, SAFA - A, D, and S) have a self - report nature; although, they have been considered valid for psychological screening, they are not suitable for a formal diagnosis of psychiatric disorder; moreover, ASQ, as a self - report questionnaire, may not be able to elicit stress and danger situations, which are indispensable to activate the attachment system; (3) In future studies, it would be important to further explore not only the role of maternal attachment and alexithymia but also the role of maternal migraine features on their children's migraine severity, attachment style, and psychological profilIn future studies, it would be important to further explore not only the role of maternal attachment and alexithymia but also the role of maternal migraine features on their children's migraine severity, attachment style, and psychological profile.
Although the population has experienced large - scale wildfires before — persevering through the Rocky, Jerusalem and Valley fires in the past few years — the immediate danger in Northern California is proving to be a devastating event, leaving whole neighborhoods burned to the ground.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z