Sentences with phrase «wildlife diseases as»

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What about animal protectionist assertion that trapping is not necessary to mitigate wildlife disease epidemics, such as rabies?

An educational conference for current and aspiring vintners, Grape Day 2014 will focus on viticulture and enology issues such as the effects of the California drought on grape - growing and best practices for disease and wildlife management in the vineyards.

Thomas is a wildlife biologist by training, but he now uses technology such as satellite remote sensing and software applications such as geographic information systems to model vector disease transmission.

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

The consumption of bushmeat in Guinea may possibly serve as the transmission point from wildlife to human populations for the disease.

Janies said, noting that the wildlife biologists and veterinary doctors who know and observe animal diseases often do not often belong to the same communication networks as physicians.

What wilderness remains is in a perilous state — and that could prove perilous to humans as new diseases make the jump from wildlife to farm animals to people

While canine distemper has been known for many years as a problem affecting domestic dogs, the virus has been appearing in new areas and causing disease and mortality in a wide range of wildlife species, including tigers and lions.

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• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

As the human population in West Africa has grown, people have increasing contact with wildlife, which has aided the spread of zoonotic diseases.

Last April, at a conference resort next to the Golden Gate Bridge, 52 scientists from around the world spent three days doing case studies on: 1) wildlife diseases with vectors such as mosquitoes, 2) wildlife diseases without vectors, such as chytrid fungus in amphibians, 3) destructive island invasives such as rodents and ants.

Specifically she investigates how human - induced degradation to the landscape leads to genetic alteration in a species, as well as how this impacts the emergence and prevalence of wildlife diseases.

Despite its name, pseudo-rabies, also called «the mad itch,» is not related to rabies and does not infect humans, but to wild canines, including coyotes and foxes, the disease is fatal, so wildlife managers want to ensure that they eliminate as many hogs as possible.

Still, most donors prefer to see as much money as possible go towards funding research to cure disease, protect wildlife or to provide food to a deserving family.

These cats are incredibly independent and can have a drastic ecological impacts on the wildlife surrounding their home ranges as they are not only skilled hunters, but they often carry diseases that can have a detrimental effects on other animals.

The disease is passed through direct contact with fresh urine, blood, or saliva and affects dogs and ferrets, along with certain species of wildlife, such as raccoons, wolves, foxes, and skunks.

Dr. Freeman is frequently involved in wildlife pro-bono veterinary care and her special interests within ophthalmology include ophthalmic surgery, optics, tear film dynamics and surface ocular disease, as well as wildlife and exotic animal ophthalmology.

Not only is this systematic abandonment inhumane to the cats, it perpetuates numerous problems such as wildlife predation, transmission of disease, and property destruction.

The Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, established in the 1950s as a blood - typing laboratory to verify parentage for cattle registries, has pioneered DNA - based identification techniques to provide pedigree validation, forensic services, diagnostic tests and genetic disease research in large animals, pets and wildlife species.

As examples, students» at all academic levels and from many national and international locations, have had the experience of working in a research laboratory or have participated in a focused research project related to vector borne infectious diseases of companion animals or wildlife species.

Rodents, raccoons, and other wildlife serve as a source of Lyme disease infection for people and dogs.

Other wildlife such as wolves and foxes can also spread the disease to dogs.

This prevents the cat from experiencing extremes of heat or cold, protects them from excessively strong winds and rain, protects them from wild predation and dangerous encounters with wildlife, protects them from insect bites such as mosquitos, fleas and biting ants, and removes the risk of getting infected with communicable disease or getting hit by a car on the road.

TNR, another NK nightmare, will be responsible for an increase in diseases such as Rabies and a decrease in wildlife.

WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Indian Harbour Beach, Florida has determined that feral animals within the City limits can create a nuisance disturbance, prey on common and rare species of native wildlife in Florida, including species listed as threatened or endangered by the state and federal governments, carry and spread diseases, destroy property, compete with native wildlife for food and shelter, as well as copious fecal deposits made by said feral animals; and,

The study adds more fuel to a tense fight between conservationists, who view free - roaming cats as super-predators that spread disease and devastate wildlife, and cat advocates who argue that popular programs to neuter feral cats are the most humane way to handle them.

Many of the services provided by environmental health personnel are directly related to animals (including animal bites, and stray animal and wildlife control) and pests (such as ticks and mosquitoes), as well as the diseases they harbor and spread (for example rabies, Lyme disease, viral encephalitis, West Nile Virus, and intestinal parasites such as Giardia and roundworms).

The team monitored and responded to outbreaks of wildlife - originating diseases, such as the saiga antelope die - off in Kazakhstan and global outbreaks of avian influenza.

We joke here that the mosquito is really the state bird instead of the beautiful Yellowhammer and we also have populations of feral dogs and coyotes that serve as wildlife reservoirs for heartworm disease.

The Betty White Wildlife Rapid Response Fund, established in October 2010, gives wildlife researchers timely monetary aid to respond to unexpected events, such as natural disasters and emerging diseases, which result in the need for emergency animal health research funding.

Addressing infectious diseases in wildlife poses unique challenges: wildlife managers and researchers have to approach infectious agents as both a «herd health» and an environmental problem.

While plague cases in people and pets are minimal in the United States, the real toll of this disease is seen in wildlife, in which it is referred to as sylvatic plague.

Rabies and leptospirosis are two key diseases horses can contract from wildlife such as skunks, raccoons and bats.

Outdoor hazards are obvious such as: volume of traffic, incidence of disease, a cat's ability to protect itself (deaf, partially sighted, frail), its danger to other cats (if it has a transmissible disease), predation upon vulnerable wildlife, any danger to humans (a British cat, Gizmo the postman hater, had to be confined for the safety of postmen and other delivery men), danger from humans (e.g. gamekeepers), spilt car antifreeze and garden chemicals.

[FN62] It has also been observed, by Castillo and others, that food set out for cats attracts other wildlife, such as raccoons and skunks, which can facilitate the spread of disease.

[FN53] But potential for cats to transmit diseases presents a health hazard to humans as well as a threat to wildlife, because rabies, toxoplasmosis, cat scratch fever, encephalitis (from cat scratch fever), plague, hookworms and roundworms can be contracted by humans through contact with infected cats.

Not only do cats impact Florida wildlife through predation and spread of disease, but they can outnumber and compete with native predators, such as owls, hawks, and foxes.

The FWCC itself acknowledges the following: cats are the most common carriers of rabies among domestic animals, and can transmit rabies to wildlife such as raccoons, skunks an foxes; feline leukemia virus, a leading cause of death due to infectious disease in cats, has been reported in a mountain lion, a close relative of the endangered Florida panther; domestic cats were identified as one possible reservoir host for feline panleukopenia, which has been discovered in the Florida panther.

Studio items such as the manipulation of photographs including those of John Deakin, Peter Stark and Peter Beard; reproductions of Muybridge's pioneering studies of the human figure and animals in motion; images torn from books, magazines and newspapers of skin diseases, war atrocities, boxers, wildlife, art, lovers and friends all of which are of intense interest and relevance in the field of contemporary art practice.

The chikungunya forecasts were made as part of the larger Cornell Climate and Disease Program, which considers risk to humans and wildlife, according to Drew Harvell, who studies coral disease at CDisease Program, which considers risk to humans and wildlife, according to Drew Harvell, who studies coral disease at Cdisease at Cornell.

• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.