Sentences with phrase «wildlife groups working»

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A more precise estimate of the antelope's range would help to target conservation efforts, says Nicholas Wilkinson, a Vietnam - based wildlife ecologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is working with the conservation group WWF.

The Feral Swine / Pseudo-rabies Working Group co-organizers are Graham Hickling, research associate professor in the department of forestry, wildlife and fisheries at UT Knoxville and NIMBioS associate director of partner relations; Suzanne Lenhart, professor of mathematics at UT Knoxville and NIMBioS associate director for education, outreach and diversity; and Les Real, professor of biology at Emory University.

In March, RAPIDD is forming a working group to consider wildlife - livestock - human interface diseases, including several Foreign Animal Diseases spread by feral hogs.

What I found has worked quite well is joining various FB groups, not mentioning the book straight away, but contributing to posts and comments, posting photographs of wildlife and so on, and then mentioning the book when a «following» has been established.

The group has since been taken on as a nonprofit extension of the Tulsa Audubon Society and is now working on attracting dedicated volunteers, educating the public about wildlife and raising donations.

Working with wildlife protection groups and organisations such as PETA and Global Wildlife Conservation, TripAdvisor aims to help improve the health and safety standards for animals, «especially in markets with limited regulatory protections» according to a statement by TripAdvisor CEO, Stephen Kaufer.

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.

There are groups that work on farm animals and animal testing and research and rodeo and wildlife and wildlife rehab — I mean you name it.

As always, animal issues were part of the discussions and we worked tirelessly with our House and Senate animal protection champions and other groups to successfully fight for positive provisions and sufficient enforcement funding of our key animal protection laws and to stave off harmful riders to kill horses and wildlife.

This diverse group of philanthropists works locally, regionally, nationally and internationally on issues involving companion animals, captive and free - ranging wildlife, farmed animals and animals used in research, among others.

Save the Animals Foundation, Inc. and the Animal Protection League of New Jersey — working closely with other cat rescue and wildlife groups — are relocating a colony of feral cats from their current South Jersey location to nearby farms, horse stables, wineries, and the like.

In working with the rescue group and Craig Harms, CVM aquatics, wildlife and zoo medicine professor and director of CMAST's marine health program, we are instituting this therapy using Multi Radiance MR4 cold laser on turtles affected by this past season's cold - stunning event — and to prepare for this winter.

[2, 3] The group's commendable work, culminating in a pilot program based on their «ordinance and protocols for the management of feral cat colonies in wildlife - sensitive areas in Burlington County, New Jersey,» [4](available here) has, from what I can tell, received little attention.

By working in this group setting, an electric environment is created as people discover the many different beautiful and amazing wildlife that has been captured on these cameras.

After a 2006 trip to Tanzania, he pondered setting up a nonprofit group focused on wildlife conservation but that didn't seem realistic living in Portugal (his wife works there).

The SFI community includes a range of organizations and groups that are working to improve forestry and wildlife management practices.

Eleven groups doing conservation work or biological research in Madagascar have issued a joint statement decrying a surge in raids on the country's national parks for valuable timber, smuggling of rare wildlife and other activities abetted by the unrest and political instability there.

The work, led by Kashmira Kakati, a wildlife biologist, and financed by the Government of Assam and a group of conservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing the findings.

You will hear more about this in a comment below from Xarissa Holdaway, a frequent presence on Dot Earth who works for the wildlife group's campus arm.

Conservation Justice, one of the private groups working with Gabonese authorities to curb wildlife trafficking, is encouraging people to send congratulatory notes to Kouma Zaou and other officials leading the effort.

Joseph Bast, who works with the group, highlighted some of the group's conclusions in Forbes: There is little risk of global food insecurity owing to higher levels of CO2, as higher CO2 will greatly aid plant productivity; «No changes in precipitation patterns, snow, monsoons, or river flows that might be considered harmful to human well - being or plants or wildlife have been observed that could be attributed to rising CO2»; and little risk to aquatic or dry - land ecosystems.

Selective quoting is important, as Mr. Wiegand has a constant refrain that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has engaged in a 28 - year long cover - up of wind farm mortality, and believes that the very carefully worked out wildlife mortality counting methodologies employed at wind farms — methodologies developed and vetted by wildlife biologists, avian preservation groups and the wind industry — consistently undercount avian mortality.

The NWF strives to remain «A national network of like - minded state and territorial groups, seeking balanced, common - sense solutions to environmental problems that work for wildlife and people.»

And, while countless conservation groups are actively working to save them, the arrest of a wildlife smuggler in Thailand is proving just how easily a handful of criminals could bring about their demise.

You can choose to specialise in working with certain groups such as companion breeds, livestock or exotic wildlife.