Sentences with phrase «tiger populations from»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Pressure from poaching, decimation of their prey base, and habitat fragmentation have diminished the population of Amur tigers (also called Siberian tigers) to fewer than 500.

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.

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.

On the other hand, when yellow fever mosquitoes evolve to avoid this type of mating, they may be able to coexist with Asian tiger mosquitoes and repopulate areas from places where their populations are dwindling, Bargielowski said.

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.

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.

The Serengeti lion population was able to recover from the 1994 event, but Gilbert and colleagues warn that tigers may have a tougher time.

That would allow a population that loses some cats to the virus to recover with the addition of healthy tigers from farther away, improving the likelihood that the group survives the outbreak.

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-.

For felid species with individually distinct fur patterns, such as tigers Panthera tigris [8], jaguars Panthera onca [10]--[12], snow leopards Panthera uncia [13], leopards Panthera pardus [14], cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus [15] and ocelots Leopardus pardalis [16], [17], data from camera - trapping can be analysed using capture - recapture models to estimate abundances and population dynamics [2].

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.

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 authors conclude that if the goals emerging from the recent Tiger Summit in Russia are to be met, a dual focus will be required — both bolstering protections for the species in its core breeding locations and working within and between countries to maintain corridors allowing tigers to move between populations.

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.

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.