Sentences with phrase «tiger population»

Therefore the illegal tiger trade represents a significant portion of the wild tiger population.

Our goal is increasing tiger populations 50 percent by 2016.

Only about 3500 remain in the wild, and last year 13 countries with tiger populations pledged $ 50 million to protect them.

Importantly, these threats have led to tiger populations becoming smaller and more fragmented, making them much more susceptible to sudden population declines and even extinction due to disease.

To ensure future persistence, tiger populations need to be managed as a network of protected areas connected by corridors.

They found that there are now only two habitats large enough to host more than 30 breeding females, an indicator of viable tiger populations over the long term.

The implications of this threat to tiger population dynamics remain unknown.

These days, to maintain the health and balance of scattered tiger populations, it's sometimes necessary to move animals long distances.

Coming from the University of Washington Conservation Canines program, the dogs are trained to sniff out tiger poop, which gets scooped up and studied by scientists in an effort to learn about the genetic diversity of the dwindling tiger population in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia.

The dogs were trained by University of Washington's Center for Conservation Biology and were tasked with sniffing out tiger scat, which was then studied by scientists to learn more about the dwindling tiger population in the Greater Mekong region of Southeast Asia.

These tigers were isolated from other tiger populations by the Tibetan Plateau, leaving their origins a mystery.

In this video, WWF explains how consumer demand for tiger parts and furs have led to a decrease in wild tiger populations from around 100,000 to just an estimated 3,200 today.

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.

The group looked at examples of distemper outbreaks around the world, including the recent case study offered by the Amur tiger population in the Russian Far East.

The wildlife sanctuary and its environs was the source of inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book and is known for housing one of the highest densities of tiger population in the country.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered...

«This is how we will monitor tiger populations and how they move around the landscape in the future,» predicts George Amato, director of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

«If we get everything done in this declaration, we will turn tiger populations around so in fact it's a positive not a negative,» Seidensticker said.

Results of the camera - trap study showed a Sumatran tiger population density increase to 2.8 tigers / 100 km2 (2015) from 1.6 tigers / 100 km2 (2002).

Illegal logging is widespread throughout the Russian Far East and has a major impact on tiger populations because Korean pine and Mongolian oak provide critical food for the the tigers» prey during the snow season.

The count was conducted by India's National Tiger Conservation Authority with key partners, including WWF, in the largest tiger population survey ever undertaken.

The challenge, as always, will be moving from pledges to concrete steps on the ground around remaining tiger populations and also in curbing illicit trade in tiger pelts, body parts and extracts said to hold medicinal properties, most of which end up in China.

India announced the results of its new survey at the first international meeting on tiger conservation since the big Russian conclave last fall at which countries with tiger populations pledged to move from conferences to concrete actions on the ground.

The researchers suggest that through the early 1900s, Caspian and Siberian tiger populations intermingled, but hunters subsequently isolated the two groups.

«Based on previous work, we knew that during the summer the sand tiger population formed groups in the Delaware Bay, with male and female adults and juveniles all together in the same places, sometimes very close together,» said Danielle Haulsee, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment's School of Marine Science and Policy.

Unplanned development in the future will result in loss of connectivity and an increased possibility of extinction for several tiger populations.

Pro-active measures — such as notifying buffer areas, protecting corridors and maintaining populations between Protected Areas (PAs)-- are critical to maintaining viable long - term tiger populations at a landscape scale.

The big orange - and - black cats reach sexual maturity at an older age than cats such as leopards and cougars, and tiger populations take longer to recover from the loss of mature individuals.

Worldwide tiger populations are at an all - time low, with estimated numbers of breeding females reduced to approximately 1,000 animals [1].

These efforts are helping to grow tiger populations and we're seeing an expansion of the tigers» use of habitat in the region.

NEW DELHI, March, 28 2011 — The Indian Government today released new tiger population numbers for the first time since 2007, indicating that numbers have increased in the country that has half of the world's remaining wild tigers.

A new paper builds on the argument that international cooperation, smart national planning and fairly modest investments could help sustain the last wild tiger populations even in the face of rapid growth in human numbers and appetites across much of Asia.

In the same period there was an 84 percent decline in elephant populations, down to only 210 individuals, while tiger populations are estimated to have declined by 70 percent to perhaps just 192 individuals.

They represent the largest unfragmented tiger population in the world.

A shocking decline in the Russian Federation's wild tiger population highlights the importance of eliminating trade in and demand for tiger parts, the International Tiger Coalition (ITC) said today.

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.

Since the start of the 20th century, when world tiger populations were thought to be above 100,000, three tiger sub-species have gone extinct: The Caspian Tiger (which was so closely related to the Amur Tiger than some scientists believe them to be one and the same), the Bali Tiger, and the Javan Tiger.

Only five, all of which are in India, maintain tiger populations close (> 80 %) to their estimated carrying capacity [13].

The Tigers Forever program [21] has supported governmental protection effort, aided by MIST (Management Information SysTem) law enforcement monitoring [22], in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Malaysia, and hunting has been reduced and tiger populations stabilized.

Even source sites, however, have depressed tiger populations.

Here's a «Your Dot» contribution from Rabinowitz, who heads Panthera, which — together with the Wildlife Conservation Society — has been running a project called Tigers Forever, focused on doubling tiger populations from 2006 to 2016 in critical spots.

WWF strives to spread the word about the importance of a healthy Amur tiger population.

It was this kind of hunting that reduced India's Bengal tiger population from an estimated 40,000 a hundred years ago to just 1700 today.

The world's dwindling tiger population is threatened by poaching and humans encroaching on the big cats» habitat, but canine distemper virus may also be a problem, a new study finds.

Aditya Joshi, a researcher with the Wildlife Conservation Trust and an author on the paper, says, «Conservation of corridors and forest areas outside of the protected area network is critical for long - term demographic and genetic viability of many endangered species and future growth and recovery of tiger populations.»