Sentences with phrase «retaliatory killings»

This can notably impact local peoples» livelihoods, which leads to retaliatory killings of snow leopards (Jackson, Mishra, McCarthy, & Ale, 2010).

Expanding agriculture, disease, and retaliatory killings might all play a role, but those threats paled in comparison to recreational hunting, according to the team's analysis.

That, in turn, could provoke more retaliatory killings, and lions will feel the squeeze from each side as they suffer both from direct conflict with humans and from having less to eat.

That rules out sickness or retaliatory killing as reasons for the downward trend.

Disproportionate mortality of males, presumably an important cause of the change in sex ratio of the snow leopard population in Tost, is reported in several carnivores as resulting from human - induced factors such as poaching and retaliatory killing, including Amur tigers in southeast Russia [32], leopards in South Africa [34], and cougars in the Pacific Northwest [33], although there are exceptions (e.g. tiger population in Panna, Central India, that had turned male - biased prior to extinction due to poaching; [36], [37]-RRB-.

Not exact matches

Two IDF soldiers were killed on January 28 in a retaliatory attack by Hezbollah, but Iranian leaders have hinted Tehran may still attack Israel over the general's death.

Pyongyang looks at states such as Iraq — where Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the United States — and Libya — its late leader, Moammar Gadhafi, gave up his nuclear ambitions for sanctions relief and aid, only to be toppled and killed after the United States intervened in his country's civil unrest — and believes that only being able to threaten the US mainland with a retaliatory nuclear strike can stop American military intervention.

«We need to take away their access and options of being able to do the same again and I think it has to be retaliatory for a number of reasons: there has to be a serious lesson sent out to the Syrians and to their allies in Iran and Russia that you can not attack innocent civilians, kill people, destroy their lives, injure them for long term.»

A day after Monday's government barrage, retaliatory shells rained down on the Syrian capital, killing at least one person on Tuesday.

In the case of ISIS and Twitter, imagine a retaliatory attack on a hacker cell that ends up killing civilians in large numbers by accident, creating international pressure against the U.S. bombing campaign against the Islamic State.

«IPOB has never been involved in any retaliatory attacks or killing of any human being because we believe, along with our ancient values, that life is a rare gift from God, which is not in the place of man to take.»

slasher flick about a college coed (Danielle Panabaker) who embarks with a girlfriend (Nicole LaLiberte) on a retaliatory, man - hating killing spree after a series of dates gone bad.