Sentences with phrase «vanishing species»

Indian officials suspect them of supporting the poaching of tigers, rhinos, elephants and other vanishing species in India's Kaziranga National Park to support terrorist activities.

Dr. Mims said he was confident the fish still existed in the river but lamented that such efforts were coming so late in the game — a story I have heard from many biologists studying the last hangers - on of vanishing species.

«My work is my own insectarium, filled with vanishing species and unidentifiable creatures,» says Santalov.

Ziswiler, V., Extinct and Vanishing Species: A biology of extinction and survival, ed.

Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope - filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a «frozen ark,» equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us.

Greenpeace International is urging schoolchildren to don the guises of vanishing species as part of its Help Save the Earth campaign.

«Giant salamanders, geckos and olms: Vanishing species diversity in Siberia: Study of the development of amphibians and reptiles through twelve million years of geological history.»

During the hour - long slide show, Holly summarized the effects of climate change in Yosemite — including shrinking waterfalls, intensifying wildfires, and vanishing species.

To date, the tule elk are still quite a problem: the State of California can't find any takers able or willing to meet the stiff qualifications set by the commissioners in the best interests of conserving a rapidly vanishing species.

Europe's first expert on the subject offers advice to aid a vanishing species: the true amateur skier

Yet one has to admit that the minister's wife who once read books like mine and who attended anxiously and diligently to the «duties» imposed on her from without belongs to a vanishing species.

In this lucid road map for the nascent discipline of «de-extinction,» Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist, examines not only how we can resurrect long - vanished species but also when we can not or should not.

«De-extinction probability increases with every improvement in ancient DNA analysis,» said Stewart Brand, co-founder of the nonprofit conservation group Revive and Restore, which aims to resurrect vanished species including the passenger pigeon and the woolly mammoth, whose genomes have already been mostly pieced together.

The achievement moves the field of extinct genomes closer to the goal of «de-extinction» — bringing vanished species back to life by slipping the genome into the egg of a living species, «Jurassic Park» - like.

Now, preserved by a team of taxidermists and put on display at the museum until his January 4 return to his South American homeland, George still shares his message amid other vanished species — lonesome no more.

11:43 a.m. Addendum Just one of the many secondary issues in this arena is «de-extinction» — the prospect of bringing vanished species — say, the passenger pigeon — back to life now that we know better.

So «researchers» merely have to plug in estimates of future atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and, presto, out come 3 - 8 degrees of dangerous warming and climate change, and a host of «scenarios» for climate catastrophes, vanished species and dead people.

Lion, hyena and rhinoceros would invade the wild plains of what is now southern England, and now - vanished species of humans would hunt big game and gather fruit and seeds in the valleys and forests of Europe and America.

Not exact matches

Yet may we not claim, observing the precipitate growth of democracies and totalitarian regimes during the past hundred and fifty years, that it is the Sense of Species, which for a time seemed to have vanished from human hearts, dispelled in some sort by the growth of Reflection, that is now gradually resuming its place and reasserting its rights over narrow individualism?

Finally, any human group, and indeed the human species, will one day vanish.

Either the different species, losing their powers of «speciation», survive as living fossils, which after all is a form of death; or else, and there are infinitely more of these, they simply vanish, one sort being replaced by another.

Illinois» vanishing bugs and why it matters to Earth - Chicago Tribune - September 21, 2017 Just off the lobby of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum — some distance from the live - butterfly exhibit, to prevent contagion — Allen Lawrence, associate curator of entomology, and Doug Taron, chief curator of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, breed Baltimore checkerspot butterflies, a vulnerable species.

Now zoos and other institutions worldwide are working together on an «Amphibian Ark» to help save all these species as they vanish in the wild, in the hope of one day returning them home.

Of the 45,000 species evaluated in the 2008 Red List, issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 17,000, or nearly forty percent, may vanish.

In August she reported that the species could vanish from the northeastern United States within 16 years.

The species, Atelopus varius, vanished suddenly from streams across Costa Rica and Panama in the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of the many victims of the deadly chytrid fungus that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.

Will biodiversity be affected evenly across the board, or will some species with particular traits be more likely to vanish?

Without rampant road expansion, tropical forests around the world would not be vanishing at a rate of 50 football fields a minute, an assault that imperils myriad species and spews billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases...

The Hutovo Blato wetland in Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered its latest severe fire in October, and may vanish within decades - threatening many bird species

If emissions continue at current levels, he predicts that by 2080, 39 percent of the world's lizard populations will have vanished, corresponding to a 20 percent loss in species.

At least 30,000 species vanish every year from human activity, which means we are living in the midst of one of the greatest mass extinctions in Earth's history.

In the review, the scientists report analyses of the most comprehensive radiocarbon data set of Caribbean mammals and human arrivals in the Caribbean, representing 57 extinction and extirpation (when a population vanishes from an island) events for native species.

Many native species have vanished from tropical islands because of human impact, but University of Florida scientists have discovered how fossils can be used to restore lost biodiversity.

Earth is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction: Somewhere between 30 and 159 species disappear every day, thanks largely to humans, and more than 300 types of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have vanished since 1500.

Many of the species that appear during the Cambrian Explosion some 540 million years ago vanish from the fossil record about 40 million years later, which led researchers to believe they died out.

Steven Pinker said, «Music could vanish from our species and the rest of our lifestyle would be virtually unchanged.»

Nonetheless, as co-author S D Biju notes, these insights into the frog's development, «enable a better understanding of its ecological adaptations and provide useful information for conservation of this Endangered species and its vanishing habitats.»

In a massive extinction about 250 million years ago, 90 percent of Earth's sea creatures and up to 80 percent of its terrestrial species vanished.

Lucas, for his part, is surveying amphibian, crocodilian and dinosaur fossils found at over 800 sites across the western U.S. to refine his own timeline of when species appeared and vanished during the late Triassic.

Two bumblebee species have got 25 per cent shorter in 40 years, allowing them to feed from shorter flowers as warming makes deeper ones vanish

As a result, our species ended up all over the world while theirs vanished.

Native species can be reintroduced to places where they've vanished.

But he points out that not all field surveys are done properly — for instance, using automated cameras — so even a series of unsuccessful searches doesn't necessarily mean the species has vanished entirely.

We may not miss the phantom shiner, the thicktail chub, the stumptooth minnow or the harelip sucker, but these freshwater fishes are among 39 species (3.2 percent of North America's freshwater fish population) and 18 subspecies that have vanished from the continent's waters over the past century.

The moas present a particularly interesting case, researchers say, because they were the last of the giant species to vanish, and they did so recently, when a changing climate was no longer a factor.

In the early 1980s, biologists began reporting that species of amphibians such as the Australian gastric brooding frog had begun to vanish.

For example, the harlequin frog, golden toad, and an estimated two - thirds of the 110 or so other brightly - colored toad species once plentiful in the mountains of Costa Rica have vanished, with a pathogen outbreak tied to global warming believed to be a key factor in their extinction.

Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.

In 2015 sought «endangered» protections for Africa's savannah and forest elephants, with both species vanishing due to the illegal ivory trade.

It must occur after both reach reproductive maturity, otherwise the species would vanish.