Sentences with phrase «wildlife mortality from»

Over 200 organizations — the largest coalition ever assembled on the issue of wildlife mortality from feral cats — joined ABC and signed on to a letter requesting that the U.S. Department of Interior prohibit feral cat colonies on public lands.

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Birds and Cats FWS claims that «free - roaming cats kill at least one billion birds every year in the U.S., representing one of the largest single sources of human - influenced mortality for small native wildlife,» [1] supporting the assertion with just three sources, one of which is Rich Stallcup's 1991 article from the Observer, a publication of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

(Washington, D.C., January 29, 2013) A new peer - reviewed study published today and authored by scientists from two of the world's leading science and wildlife organizations — the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)-- has found that bird and mammal mortality caused by outdoor cats is much higher than has been widely reported, with annual bird mortality now estimated to be 1.3 to 4.0 billion and mammal mortality likely 6.3 to 22.3 billion individuals.

Dr. Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist with the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC), explains how the New York State Wildlife Health Program — a partnership between AHDC and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that examines wildlife mortalities — recently discovered that out of 300 bald eagles tested in New York state, 17 percent had lead levels high enough to cause death from lead poisoning.