Sentences with phrase «repopulation efforts»

What is remarkable is that while California pipevine swallowtail repopulation efforts have worked in nearby counties like Sonoma and Santa Cruz, Wong's project is the first to truly succeed in San Francisco since the 1980s.

We have completed groundbreaking genetic research on whale sharks, aided in South African penguin repopulation efforts and are pioneering economic based conservation efforts to save coral reefs.

Although bearded vultures are not considered endangered worldwide, they have been almost completely extirpated from their historic central European range — the 125 breeding pairs in Spain are the result of 30 years of concerted repopulation efforts.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

[142] The repopulation effort has been successful in part because a significant portion of the birds» diet includes carcasses of large sea creatures that have washed ashore, which are unlikely to be contaminated with lead, the principal cause of the bird's mortality.