Sentences with phrase «tiger populations by»

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With 66 % of its population under the age of 35, India is set to reap an unprecedented 40 - year demographic dividend similar to those enjoyed by industrializing Europe and the Far Eastern «tiger» states at the peak of their growth.

Our goal is increasing tiger populations 50 percent by 2016.

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.

DiCaprio said a statement that the world's population of 3,200 tigers was endangered by «habitat destruction and escalating illegal poaching.»

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

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.

Chitwan is just 20 minutes by flight from Kathmandu or 5 hours by drive.Covering an area of 932 Km, Chitwan national park is the home for 450 species of birds, big population of one horned asian rhinos, deers, boars, bisons, buffalos, peacocks, leopards and bengal tigers.

On a chartered boat and sometimes patrol boats, Rabinowitz winds deeper and deeper into the struggles of tigers, which are hemmed in ever more in India and Bangladesh by expanding populations and deforestation and imperiled by the rising Asian trade in tiger parts.

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 tiger population in India has risen in the last four years, according to data released by the government on Monday.

If even Bjorn Lomborg sees the merits of the world spending $ 100 billion a year to address global warming, is there anyone who can find a downside to raising a grand total of $ 35 million a year (beyond money already committed by national governments) to protect 42 «source sites» — areas of tiger territory with populations that are sufficiently healthy to repopulate neighboring regions with suitable, but tiger-less, habitat?

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...

In November 2010, the heads of government of the 13 tiger range countries signed the St Petersburg declaration promising to double the world's population of wild tigers by 2020.

By the 1980s, the Amur tiger population had increased to around 500.

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.

Lowest Genetic Diversity of Any Tiger Population By sampling DNA from the cat's droppings, the team determined that the genetic diversity among Amur Tigers is the lowest ever recorded for a wild population of tigers.

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.

Leaders of 13 tiger range states, supported by international donors and conservationists attending the summit, are being asked to commit to substantive measures to prevent the unthinkable: extinction of the world's last wild tiger populations.

This data set displays 29 Tx2 Tiger Conservation Landscapes (Tx2 TCLs), defined areas that could double the wild tiger population through proper conservation and management by 2020.

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.