Sentences with phrase «threaten wildlife populations»

We scale projects protecting critical eco-regions around the world and connecting often isolated islands of habitat to restore threatened wildlife populations.

Not exact matches

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

Local involvement in, and support for, wildlife research is particularly important in the event that isolated or threatened populations are identified, as resulting management decisions could directly impact their lives.

The findings, he and others say, suggest that wildlife managers should focus scarce resources on those threatened populations with larger gene pools within a species.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

Rapidly changing ecosystems are threatening wildlife and the indigenous populations that depend on it, while thawing land and melting ice are shortening shipping routes and opening up new areas for development of fossil fuels and minerals.

I believe in Trap, Neuter and Return as the only humane solution in reducing the population of feral cats (Feral cats threatening wildlife, March 26).

Or, how prohibiting TNR and the feeding of outdoor cats would, as ABC claims in its October 2011 letter to big - city mayors — to which Antoniotti refers in her story — «stop the epidemic spread of feral cats that threaten national bird populations as well as scores of other wildlife.»

The HSUS supports collaborative efforts, such as coalition - based initiatives, to humanely reduce outdoor cat populations while protecting threatened and endangered wildlife populations.

The number concerns wildlife and ornithology organizations that believe these stealthy predators decimate bird populations and threaten public health.

According to Taylor Ellis, wildlife technician for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the plover's threatened status is linked to development, human population growth, and human activity that has caused a decline in its nesting habitat.

Conservation organizations, too, have long recognized the importance of the island's natural, intact habitats, and healthy populations of rare and threatened wildlife.

Koalas, red - legged pademelons and Albert's lyrebirds are among the exotic wildlife of the 8,080 - hectare Nightcap National Park, which contains significant populations of threatened plants and animals.

As noted on the Fish & Wildlife Service site, thousands of wildlife species are threatened by illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade — it's often unsustainable, harms populations of animals and plants and pushes endangered species toward extinction.

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;

Already, this ecological debt is decimating wildlife populations worldwide, disproportionately hurting the world's poor and most vulnerable, threatening imperative resources like food and water, heating up the atmosphere, and risking global well - being.

The International Conservation Union, in its latest red list of endangered wildlife, gave polar bears threatened status in May, projecting a decline of 30 percent by midcentury from current populations, mainly due to projected losses of sea ice in a warming world.

These are just a few examples of how human activities in the oceans are threatening the health of marine wildlife populations.

It points to «longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk.»