Sentences with phrase «protect wild populations»

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As conservationists work to recover endangered species populations, taking individuals that are maintained and protected under human care and reintroducing them into the wild, it becomes apparent that there is a great deal to learn about the science of species recovery.

The forum brought together many of the world's top disease ecologists, wildlife biologists, immunologists, virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians and pathologists, and policy experts to explore whether it would be appropriate and feasible to develop approaches to canine distemper vaccination to protect at - risk wild carnivore populations.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

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.

«In lieu of a practical means of delivering [canine distemper virus] vaccines to wild tigers, the most viable strategy to ensure their conservation is the maintenance of large connected populations within protected areas that buffer the effects of local declines,» Gilbert and colleagues write.

In order to create effective conservation programs to help protect and conserve populations of endangered snow leopards, whose estimated population is between 4,500 - 7,500 in the wild, University of Delaware researchers are studying their scat to try and understand what the large cats are eating.

Our results suggest that small amounts of non-native genetic admixture that may not be morphologically detectable may have negative effects on fitness of native trout in the wild and that conservation and policy programmes that protect hybridized populations may need reconsideration.

This outbreeding depression suggests that even low levels of admixture may have negative effects on fitness in the wild and that policies protecting hybridized populations may need reconsideration.

First approved in 1995 to prevent raccoon rabies, it is used worldwide to protect wild animals and, indirectly, neighboring human populations.

All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.

Keeping cats indoors also protects the wild bird population, as it's estimated by Audubon.org that domestic cats kill 1.4 to 3.7 billion birds a year in the U.S. alone.

Your gift during Morris Animal Foundation's Season of Hope supports studies such as our Healthy Animals Initiative to help protect wild bird populations from threats like lead exposure.

Should wild populations of threatened animals be protected from over harvesting, smuggling and cruel exploitation?

I am also happy to see any laws, especially international ones that reasonably protect the welfare and status of wild populations, even if those laws impact my business negatively.

He was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2007 for his efforts to protect dwindling wild salmon populations from over fishing.

Orri Vigfusson won the Goldman Prize in 2007 for his efforts to protect dwindling wild salmon populations from over fishing.