Sentences with phrase «wildlife biologist from»

Nicholas Soames, the junior agriculture minister, tells me that the Fraddam case, reported to the local ministry office on 8 June, was immediately investigated by a wildlife biologist from the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service.

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From the bluebird painting propped against her office wall and the deer she mentions seeing outside her office window, Linda Lewis might be mistaken for a wildlife biologist at first glance.

Judging from aerial surveys, sporadic reports by hunters and ranchers, and signals from the few animals wearing radio collars, state wildlife biologists think there are now more than 500 wolves here.

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

The project would include more than 980,000 acres of «bridge habitat,» or connections from one «clump» to another, said Sarah Reif, a wildlife biologist with Arizona Fish and Game.

Albertani's team also includes two collaborators from the U.S. Geological Survey, biological statistician Manuela Huso and wildlife biologist and eagle expert Todd Katzner.

So Gabriel and his friend Mark Higley, a wildlife biologist at the Hoopa Tribal Forestry Department, began tagging along on raids, sometimes entering an illegal grow site while dangling, commando - style, from a rope attached to a police helicopter.

Colorado State University biologists say this sporadic ebb and flow of prairie dog plague is an ideal model for the study of rare infectious zoonotic disease — disease that can jump from wildlife to humans — like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and Ebola.

That's what archeologists, wildlife biologists, and wetlands scientists who have gotten funding from a little - known transportation program will face with shrinking federal support if a massive highway bill approved by the U.S. Senate becomes law.

The findings from Otaki's group are «groundbreaking,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, who also studies the effects of radiation on wildlife near Fukushima and Chernobyl.

But now conservation biologists have borrowed a trick from public health research to get closer to the truth without having to ask such touchy questions — which could help protect wildlife.

They occasionally prey on livestock, and wildlife biologists believe this behavior could be exacerbated by scavenging on livestock carcasses that die from various causes.

As the daughter of a wildlife biologist and veterinarian, she has loved animals from Day One.

Black cats get lucky; a Colorado sanctuary teaches horses to trust; shelters feel the fallout from the backyard chicken craze; Florida shelter educates its staff and volunteers about fomites to prevent the spread of disease; New York rescue groups showcase foster kitties in stylish chapeaus; a wildlife biologist discusses ways for cat advocates and conservationists to work together; and more.

One of the reasons that the «scientific» papers put out by wildlife biologists have been so bad is that they are trying to cobble together conclusions from inadequate data.

The May «From Shore to Sea» lecture focused on the return of bald eagles to the Channel Islands with an exciting talk by eagle expert and wildlife biologist Dr. Peter Sharpe of the Institute for Wildlife Studies (IWS).

During the January «From Shore to Sea» lecture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Annie Little will discuss how recent efforts to remove feral cats from San Nicolas Island will help restore native wildlFrom Shore to Sea» lecture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Annie Little will discuss how recent efforts to remove feral cats from San Nicolas Island will help restore native wildlfrom San Nicolas Island will help restore native wildlife.

State and federal wildlife biologists are gearing up for an assault on the rats of Rat Island, 1,700 miles from Anchorage.

The intimate wildlife tours, limited to just five guests, provide one - on - one instruction from the Resort's on - site expert, wildlife biologist Tenley Thompson.

The Amigos conservation team comprises biologists, oceanographers, anthropologists, development workers and volunteers and its projects range from wildlife research to an environmental services payment program for protecting the jungle, water studies and sustainable development.

Still, wildlife biologists say the rhinos in the park face threats from poaching — mainly due to demand in China for the purported medicinal properties of the horns — as well as from a nearby volcano.

«Unfortunately, it appears that the agency caved to pressure from snake breeders in its decision not to restrict trade in the boa constrictor — a snake that is clearly damaging to U.S. wildlife,» Collette Adkins, an attorney and biologist at the center focusing on the protection of reptiles and amphibians, said in a statement.

A wind industry opponent called the Industrial Wind Action Group Corp. has posted testimony on its website from Will Staats, a wildlife biologist for the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.

Meanwhile, wildlife biologists will need to continue to keep an eye on breeding populations — recovering well, but nevertheless still in need of monitoring, from the ravages of DDT and persecution in the past century.

She started her career as a wildlife biologist and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in biology from the University of Victoria in Canada.

Since then, biologists have been working diligently to understand the full impact that the disaster has wrought on the region's wildlife — even as the spill and its fallout slide further from the public's view.

Although bees have been getting the spotlight for Colony Collapse Disorder, bats are suffering from «the most precipitous wildlife decline in the past century in North America,» according to biologists.