Sentences with phrase «tiger population in»
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.
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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.
In November 2011, a wild Amur tiger was captured on camera for the first time in an area of northeastern China — a key finding for the breeding and resettlement of the tiger population in the region.
They represent the largest unfragmented tiger population in the world.
According to a new official census released in Delhi today, the tiger population in India has increased to 1,706 - up from 1,114 in 2008.
The tiger population in India has risen in the last four years, according to data released by the government on Monday.
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.
This study evaluates the potential impact of CDV on a key tiger population in Sikhote - Alin Biosphere Zapovednik (SABZ), and assesses how CDV might influence the extinction potential of other tiger populations of varying sizes.
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
People think there are so many of our population in favor of no gun control but the NRA is currently a paper tiger and not as large as one would think.
NEW DELHI — Hot on the heels of a study that used feces to track penguin populations from space (ScienceNOW, 6 June), researchers in India are reporting that DNA from tiger poop can help them estimate the cat's numbers in the wild.
«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.
«Canine distemper may be a factor in the decline of the population,» McAloose says, adding that any tiger conservation programme needs to tackle the disease.
«In addition to the unpredictability of a shark attack over such a large area, it is possible that fishing of tiger sharks has reduced their populations to levels that no longer pose a significant threat to turtles, with other factors becoming more important such as the need to avoid boat strikes»
That finding is profoundly disturbing for wild tigers, given that in most sites where wild tigers persist they are limited to populations of less than 25 breeding adults.1
The latest population estimates show there were only 400 to 500 tigers left on Sumatra in 1999.
In fact, additional analysis by WCS and international colleagues has shown that smaller populations of Amur tigers are more vulnerable than larger populations to extinction from distemper.
Surveys indicate that Russia's wild tiger population has increased from 40 in the 1940s to 540 today.
Furthermore, he says, «we now know what source population to use to restore tigers in the Caspian Range.»
Dr Fry's team studied the venom of 16 tiger snake populations from across Australia including five island populations in the Bass Strait, and venoms from 11 other snakes in related genera.
The country recently ended logging of cedar trees in the tigers» habitat, which not only directly protected the big cats, it also increased the crop of cedar nuts, which fed and helped to boost the population of wild boars, the tigers» favorite prey.
The WWF said it will work with the government of Nepal and local communities in a 9,000 square mile (93,310 square km) region that includes protected areas for tigers, rhinos and elephants in order to stop poaching, increase breeding and to monitor the tiger population.
Unrestricted landscape development results in 25 % lower genetic diversity and reduction in tiger numbers as several small populations in the landscape go extinct.
In most cases, this means the yellow fever mosquito population would go down, and the Asian tiger mosquito would increase.
«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.
WCS - Indonesia Country Director and co-author of the paper Dr Noviar Andayani added, «This increasing population trend in Sumatran tigers is a dream come true for all conservationists in Indonesia.
Unplanned development in the future will result in loss of connectivity and an increased possibility of extinction for several tiger populations.
Mirsky: Yeah, you make the point in the article that in some ways we might not even need to know what the exact population of the world's wild tigers are.
If tigers in the western group remain isolated, «that population, if you ask me, looks like it's headed toward extinction,» says population geneticist Uma Ramakrishnan of the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore.
The data from tigers, lions and snow leopards provides a rich and diverse genome resource that could be used in future studies of conservation and population genomics.
They looked at how the virus might spread among tigers in the reserve and then simulated what would happen if the virus infected populations of tigers in sizes ranging from three to 288 cats.
About half the world's tigers now live in populations of 25 or fewer cats, the researchers report in a study published October 29 in PLOS ONE.
Even in the most habituated tourist reserves, where you have these habituated tigers that you can see, it's only a fraction of the — a small fraction of the population.
In 2010, Till Hanebuth, a geologist at the University of Bremen in Germany, excavated more than a dozen ancient kilns in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigerIn 2010, Till Hanebuth, a geologist at the University of Bremen in Germany, excavated more than a dozen ancient kilns in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigerin Germany, excavated more than a dozen ancient kilns in the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigerin the Sundarbans, a coastal region of mangrove forests renowned for its population of royal Bengal tigers.
«In lieu of a practical means of delivering [canine distemper virus] vaccines to wild tigers, the most viable strategy to ensure their conservation is the maintenance of large connected populations within protected areas that buffer the effects of local declines,» Gilbert and colleagues write.
As a result, the total Bengal tiger population has recovered slowly during recent decades, even allowing for inaccuracies in counts.
The model suggests that outbreaks are more likely in urban areas with higher human and mosquito population densities, in years with longer growing seasons, when infected travelers arrive early in the growing season, and when tiger mosquitos have fewer non-human hosts that result in wasted bites.
The most significant factors influencing model outcome were virus prevalence in the reservoir population (s) and its effective contact rate with tigers.
Lethal infections with canine distemper virus (CDV) have recently been diagnosed in Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica), but long - term implications for the population are unknown.
CDV infection increased the 50 - year extinction probability of tigers in SABZ by 6.3 % to 55.8 % compared to a control population, depending on risk scenario.
«It's about lions and tigers and bears and the other big things that are now living in much smaller populations than they once used to be.»
More than 30 million people, especially those in urbanized environments, will reside within the Asian tiger mosquito range, and will be potentially subjected to high biting populations of this species and impending arboviral threats.
We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations.
All our conservation programs and activities work toward the following goals: Protected high conservation value marine and coastal areas, low - impact sustainable fisheries, reduced negative impacts and risks of shipping, doubling of the wild tiger populations of Nepal, responsible development solutions that conserve wildlife, community - level habitat - friendly renewable energy, land - use management to support a low - carbon economy, and one in 10 Canadians caring for nature.
Several projects were successfully completed or reached significant milestones, including: First time in 100 years that the global population of wild tigers has increased, with 60 % growth where WWF - Canada works on tiger conservation in Nepal; first ever certified sustainable cod fishery in Canada; first ever national measure of the health of our freshwater ecosystems reaching 75 % completion; and, end of oil exploration interests near Arctic's Lancaster Sound region
The train reaches Sawai Madhopur early in the morning and guests proceed for jungle safari in Ranthambore National Park, which is one of the biggest national parks in India especially known for its population of tigers.
These efforts, despite damaging the shark population, were shown to be ineffective in decreasing the number of interactions between humans and tiger sharks.
Situated in the Ranthambore district of Rajasthan, Ranthambore National Park is best known for housing large population of Royal Bengal tigers.
One of the largest protected wildlife habitats in Maharashtra, Tadoba is famous for its growing population of the Bengal tigers.
With the invention of firearms, the odds were stacked in favour of man and the tiger population was reduced at a time when this was considered normal practice (even Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were photographed here with a dead tiger).