Sentences with phrase «remaining wild populations»

Keep your eyes peeled for some of the 360 - plus species that have been recorded here, from orange - chinned parakeets and hummingbirds to one of Costa Rica's largest remaining wild populations of scarlet macaws.

«If we are to conserve remaining wild populations of elephants, we must close all markets because, under current levels of corruption, they can not be controlled in a way that does not provide opportunities for illegal ivory being laundered into legal markets,» said the paper's author, Elizabeth Bennett, WCS Vice President for Species Conservation.

JA And a new film The Great Silence (2014), centers on the world's largest radio telescope, located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, home to the last remaining wild population of a critically endangered species of parrots.

Combined with the only other remaining wild population of mountain gorillas, in Bwindi park in Uganga, the total number of gorillas not in captivity today stands at 786.

Not exact matches

African wild dogs are one of the world's most endangered carnivores and their populations are in decline, with estimates suggesting that fewer than 700 packs currently remain in the wild.

«On the basis of morphological and metrical analysis of the faunal remains from Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A hunter - gatherer deposits, we can document that wild sheep would have inhabited the local environment year - round and formed an important resource for the human population to target for food.

Since 1982, when only 22 condors remained in the wild, a captive breeding program has brought the total population up to more than 400 birds.

Since the mid-19th century, the population has plummeted from an estimated 1 million to about 300, including 50 to 100 Bornean rhinos that are thought to remain in the wild.

Despite significant progress in reestablishing populations of ferrets in the wild, recovery assessments continue to show that the end goal of establishing self - sustaining wild populations, and removing the ferret from the endangered species list, remains a moving target.

Wild animals are the only remaining risks in the U.S. Rabies vaccination programs for domestic animals like cats, dogs, and livestock have become the norm around the nation, which eliminated the threat from their populations.

In the Scottish Highlands, where approximately 400 were thought to remain in the wild in 2004, interbreeding with feral cats is a significant threat to the wild population's distinctiveness.

Carara is home to one of the largest remaining populations of wild scarlet macaws in the country.

NEW DELHI, March, 28 2011 — The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world's remaining wild tigers.

It is believed to be extinct in the wild with no known viable populations remaining in their natural habitat.

Rabinowitz makes two points which really make you sit up: 1) conservation groups really need to be held accountable for their efforts at big cat conservation, and 2) even with massively reduced habitat tiger populations could be ten times higher than they are today.Rabinowitz says that the world's 2500 - 3000 wild tigers live on just 5 - 7 % of their former range, but even that small about of remaining habitat «could probably hold up to 30,000 tigers right now at reasonable densities.»