Sentences with phrase «wild habitat»

Researchers point to things like the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and other increased challenges as the cause of the extinction.

The die - off leaves fewer bees and weaker bees, who must work harder to produce honey in depleted wild habitats.

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

Existing methods for studying the circulation of pathogens in wild habitats involve analysing animals caught for food, which represent only a fraction of a region's wildlife, or directly trapping animals to study the presence of infection in their organs and tissues, which is difficult and dangerous to protected species.

Vaughan cites research that Canadian canola farmers who sow seeds on only 70 percent of their land (leaving the remainder as wild habitat for native bees) are more productive, and make more money, than those who plant the crop on all of their fields.

By JOHN BONNER As more and more of the Earth's surface is swallowed up by towns, roads and agriculture, pressure grows on the remaining areas of truly wild habitat.

On top of that, any wolves that roamed outside the official recovery area were captured and kept in captivity, or released back into their approved wild habitat.

So far studies suggest that restoring wild habitat near farms to welcome and nurture native bees not only increases crop yield but also makes honeybees themselves more efficient pollinators.

In addition to the chemical legacy carried by modern people, the book focuses particularly on the growing threat of zoonoses — diseases that jump from animal to human — that can arise from the incursion of people on wild habitats: Of the 58 percent of human diseases caused by germs, 816 of 1,407 known human pathogens emerge from wild animal populations.

My cage signage not only included common names and prices, but also scientific names, wild habitat descriptions, ultimate size potential, diet information, and even the source for the specific animals in the cage.

A full day or overnight trips leads you to the real nature where you can get in - touch with wild habitat around the Komodo National Park.

«They show us and tell us that even though we may have a lot of really fantastic wild habitat in Alaska, our bird populations can easily decrease because of things going on elsewhere in the flyway,» Warnock says.

That incidentally has made it easy for war - time poachers to kill them the rare northern species of the rhino around its lone wild habitat, the Garamba National Park, also in Congo.

«70,000 unfarmed hectares in the Niari region,» > translation > another huge area of rain forest destruction and wild habitat destruction for a bit of oil.

As the vaquita's collapse has accelerated, however, it has become impossible to dismiss so - called ex situ conservation, the practice of preserving species by removing them from wild habitats and managing them in artificial settings.

As most crops in California's Central Valley are far from patches of wild habitat, Kremen and Williams have been experimenting by growing hedgerows of diverse flowering plants in orchards and fields.

As more and more of the Earth's surface is swallowed up by towns, roads and agriculture, pressure grows on the remaining areas of truly wild habitat.

Electricity, not coal, adds to our quality of life, and electricity can be gathered from cleaner sources than coal, sources that don't require devastation to wild habitats for its collection, nor cause devastation to humans and the climate via emissions pollution.

Growers of certified organic medicinal herbs, specializing in the cultivation of herbs that are at - risk or endangered in their wild habitat.

But we took them from their wild habitat and made them live indoor with us so we need to replicate their natural condition as much as we can.

Our feathered friends need stimulating and engaging environments that replicate challenges and obstacles naturally confronted in their wild habitats to live a happy and healthy life.

The diet of birds in their wild habitat varies from season to season and based on local climate and weather.

Of course, the most popular caged birds are fairly adaptable — otherwise, they would never have become pet birds — and can therefore live and even breed in environments that are different from their wild habitats.

But most pet birds, especially the medium to large parrots, are not too many generations away from their wild kin, so it makes sense to keep them in a place that closely resembles their wild habitats.

I have seen faithful recreations of wild habitats.

Rolf C. Hagen (USA) Corp. — Exo Terra Congo Rainforest Habitat Kit The Exo Terra Congo Rainforest Habitat Kit provides small species of snakes, frogs, geckos and lizards with surroundings that are as close to their natural, wild habitats as possible.

(to 5 ft, with 3 [1 / / 2]- inch tail) Widespread in Belize and Guatemala but rare, they occur in essentially all wild habitats and feed on vertebrates ranging from snakes to deer.

This region is known as the Fleurieu Peninsula and is rich, not only with beaches and striking seascapes, but also has an abundance of native animals in their wild habitats.

She works specifically to protect the wild habitat of the spotted owl, a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act from destructive forest... Read more

Coming up with ways of reconciling the need for low - carbon energy with the desire to protect endangered species and wild habitat has to be the dominant intellectual challenge for greens of the next generation.

The Center for Biological Diversity is a brave, scientific advocacy organization for wildlife and their wild habitats.

Growers of certified organic medicinal herbs, specializing in the cultivation of herbs that are at - risk or endangered in their wild habitat.