Sentences with phrase «threatened wild population»

These diseases would endanger the already - threatened wild population if the orang utans were released back into their native forests of Indonesia and Malaysia.

The bird does not breed well in captivity, so an ongoing (and illegal) trade in smuggled birds for the pet trade continues to threaten the wild population — a fact that would - be owners should consider.

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Declines in populations of pollinators now threaten both the yields of major food crops and the survival of wild plant species.

And then get loose to infect wild juveniles, threatening the very survival of wild salmon populations.

What began with one individual has now spread rapidly throughout the population of devils in Tasmania, killing almost all the animals and threatening survival of the species in the wild.

According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than 85 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of agricultural crops worldwide.

Trade in cactus species occurs at national and international levels and is often illegal, with 86 % of threatened cacti used in horticulture taken from wild populations.

Lowest recorded population: 15 in the wild It's ironic that one of the most threatened species, blue iguanas, may be the longest - lived lizard in the world: the oldest individual made it to 67.

Chronic wasting disease, a cousin of mad cow disease, is spreading among wild deer in parts of the U.S. Left unchecked, the fatal sickness could threaten North American deer populations — and maybe livestock and humans

The illegal ivory trade threatens the persistence of stable wild elephant populations.

The Spanish government should rescind approval of a veterinary drug that threatens Europe's largest population of wild vultures, researchers argue in a letter published online yesterday in Conservation Biology.

Back then, the West was still wild: The population of Taft, Montana, one of the three towns threatened by the Big Burn, consisted mostly of gamblers and prostitutes — «five for every man,» as one official noted at the time.

The dogs are further threatened by rabies, parvo and canine distemper viruses, which frequently break out in domestic dog populations in rural areas and spread to wild dogs that encounter them.

Many wild populations of animals and plants are profoundly threatened by exotic diseases — chytrid fungus in frogs, sylvatic plague in black - footed ferrets, Rapid Ohi'a Death in the keystone ohi'a trees of Hawaii, avian malaria in the forest birds of Hawaii.

Once the wild population reaches that size, the Black - footed Ferret will be downlisted from endangered to threatened.

He is Director of Genetics at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and oversees research efforts in cell culture and cryobanking, cytogenetics, population genetics, conservation breeding, evolution and systematics, and applications of genomics technologies to conservation efforts for managed and wild populations of threatened and endangered species.

Free - roaming cats and dogs reduce wild - animal populations, including threatened or endangered species in local areas.

Cats, the organizations argue, not only threaten wild bird and mammal populations, but also transmit diseases and parasites to humans, citing a variety of studies.

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

Bee population declines aren't new - we've steadily gone from 6 million captive hives in 1947 to about 2.5 million today - but the rate of decline has never been higher, and the situation is far worse for wild bees, threatening global biodiversity.