Sentences with phrase «tiger habitat»

The new report says that pugmarks fall short as a counting tool because they are drawn from an «unknown fraction» of the 300,000 square kilometers of tiger habitat in India and are difficult to locate in some terrain, including hard or rocky soil as well as mangrove swamps.
Note that the vast, vast majority of tiger habitat in Russia is not in protected areas.»
So last year the couple, who have two cats at home, decided to donate $ 500,000 for a new tiger habitat at Assiniboine Park Zoo.
Not only are they able to check out the new tiger habitat at the local Winnipeg Zoo on weekends and see the kids from their hometown enjoying it, they're also learning a lot in the process.
They have, for example, carefully mapped every farmer's individual plot of land to ensure that, as other farmers join the group, the farm clusters form wildlife corridors to protect Sumatran tiger habitat.
To better measure tiger trends, they recommend that India adopt statistically sound sampling methods such as transects and modern camera traps set in prime tiger habitat.
In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.
By the end of 2014, the BNU team's cameras had confirmed that for the first time in 14 years, a young male had moved back into the Huangnihe forest corridor, more than 200 kilometers inland of current confirmed Siberian tiger habitat.
A veteran defender of the forests claims they could in fact be buying timber cut from rare tiger habitat or regions where there is illegal logging, or removed using methods that cause epidemics of malaria.
With tiger habitat shrinking and increasingly fragmented, conservation efforts are shifting from relocating troublesome tigers to relocating villages.
DiCaprio spread the word just ahead of the international summit on tiger conservation that is beginning today in St. Petersburg, Russia, and because a recent study concluded that safeguarding tiger habitat could be done at a very modest cost.
In india, tigers habitat enclaved by humans and india's population is increasing without any sign of slowing.
These shady practices resulted in the flooding of villages, massive losses in tax revenue, and the destruction of critical tiger habitat and mangroves.
The Nepal study found that tiger habitat improved in areas where local communities had a say in the management.
Times News Network: Will Sunderbans, the world's largest tiger habitat, survive a century later?
Along with a target for doubling tiger populations, countries would agree to protect core tiger habitats as well as buffer zones and corridors that connect key sanctuaries and national parks.
Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.
The rise in sea level also threatens the resident tiger population; the primary tiger habitats in Dalhousie and Bhangadoyani are gradually going under water, driving the tigers to migrate north.
Greenpeace says that AP&P clear - cuts Indonesian rainforests and destroys endangered tiger habitats.
July 2010 — Greenpeace International publishes «Pulping the Planet», revealing that major companies, including KFC, Pizza Hut and Tesco, are buying from APP and showing how APP is contributing to the destruction of tiger habitat in Sumatra.
* Footnote Coincidentally, The Times «In Transit» travel blog just posted about tours of tiger habitat in this region.
Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, defends the use of pugmarks as «in tune with the local conditions» and says that the technique will be refined as part of a $ 1.1 million project now under way to map all tiger habitats.
The tiger habitat at the city's zoo.
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