Sentences with phrase «wildlife officials»

It's clear that, at best, state and federal wildlife officials are keeping the species at bay.
This program may be implemented in response to complaints from local residents or conducted by wildlife officials or others in an effort to reduce or eliminate the community cat population.
An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
(Reuters)- An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
Traffic says wildlife officials in the Malaysian state of Sabah, where the records were seized, have too little money even to fuel their patrol boats to pursue smuggling vessels.
Since many of the bats are killed not just from the spinning blades, but also by air turbulence created from the turbines, it seems wind power may be spinning itself into some real trouble with wildlife officials.
Florida votes to crack down on freshwater turtle trade Florida wildlife officials tentatively approved a new rule that will ban most freshwater turtle harvests to protect the populations of roughly 19 species.
Arizona wildlife officials say a woman narrowly avoided injury after trying to rescue a hurt owl.
Because of white nose syndrome, mounting public pressure and scrutiny from wildlife officials have become a major motivator for wind energy companies to figure out how to prevent bat deaths.
When wildlife officials began noticing elevated mercury levels in waterfowl in the lake's wetlands, at around the same time geoscientists found highly elevated mercury in the depths of the lake, they all thought a connection between the ducks and the deep brine layer was likely.
Starting last month, Victoria wildlife officials began assessing 400 koalas there, with those that were ailing to be euthanized.
To help wildlife officials with vaccine efforts and management of epidemics, ecologist Julie Rushmore of the University of Georgia studies social behavior among great apes in Uganda.
Pressed by hunting and habitat loss along its range from Florida west to coastal Texas and north to the Carolinas, the species was so depleted that by 1966 federal wildlife officials deemed it was in danger of vanishing and extended legal protections to the reptile.
Mariners share the concern of wildlife officials and environmental groups, said Dick McKenna, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California, which monitors all vessel traffic in and out of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.
For the ninth consecutive year, the success rate of deer hunters in North Dakota in 2017 was below the 70 percent threshold that state wildlife officials consider a good season.
Yet Idaho wildlife officials say habitat destruction and fragmentation linked to human activities are the greatest threats to the sage - grouse, with predation ranking 12 among 19 factors that contribute to the bird's decline.
A number of unexplained bald eagle deaths in Utah when hundreds of the government - protected birds have migrated to wintering grounds in the central Rocky Mountains has wildlife officials worried.
VANCOUVER, CANADA — When several sea otters began showing up dead in April 2007 along the coast of California's Monterey Bay, wildlife officials called otter expert Melissa Miller to investigate.
Federal wildlife officials later scrutinized the image their camera caught, comparing the animal's markings with jaguars spotted elsewhere in Arizona in recent years.
Research by wildlife officials revealed a startling finding: the Tasmanian devil population was being rapidly decimated by a new type of infectious cancer.
Oregon wildlife officials shot and killed two wolves from a helicopter Wednesday in an attempt to reduce killings of cattle by...
That's why state wildlife officials want Volusia to begin enforcing it.
Using documents, emails and interviews with former wildlife officials, the AP in articles published last year documented more than four dozen eagle deaths in Wyoming since 2009, and dozens more in California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Nevada.
Mayor Martin Pagliughi of Avalon has set about removing the animals from his island borough, and it's caught the attention of state wildlife officials who say the action could be illegal.
State wildlife officials partially credit FPL for the five-fold increase in American crocodile population since the 1970's.
Even though wildlife officials warn that if one monkey is allowed to stay in the complex it could soon give rise to others, Lamp says she has no plans to involve law enforcement since none of the business owners there seem to mind.
«Federal wildlife officials seem to be thumbing their nose at President Trump after he called for an end to the horror show of trophy hunting,» Tanya Sanerib, international program legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said.
But while wildlife officials in Africa continue to do their part to keep poachers at bay, U.S. federal agents have begun to dismantel important elements of the illegal trade of wildlife elsewhere.
He contacted wildlife officials, but when they told him the birds were protected by law, the farmer took matters into his own hands, committing one of the most extreme cases of wildlife destruction officials have ever seen: He killed them all in just one afternoon.
Even Kentucky wildlife officials were skeptical that the animal Troyer had shot was a free - roaming wild wolf — after all, the species hadn't been spotted in the state since the mid-1800s.
Environmental groups file lawsuit against U.S. wildlife officials over rare wolf management, Reuters
The Board of Directors of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system approved payment of $ 1.07 million to the contractor at BART's airport extension project, where construction work stopped for some 18 days last year as wildlife officials investigated the incident.
Florida wildlife officials are recruiting the general public for «python patrols» that teach them how to identify and even capture some of the hissing, snapping reptiles
Arizona wildlife officials say they're looking for poachers who killed a female elk on the Mogollon Rim.
[I've posted the response from wildlife officials to readers who asked why the captured python was killed.]
These core areas emphasize responding and providing support in times of emergency, nursing animals back to health, returning animals back to their environments or providing a home for those that are deemed non-releasable by wildlife officials.
When wildlife officials, conservationists and others drafted a recovery plan for the species in 1996, they determined that until there were at least 450 condors, they couldn't be considered for delisting under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Bats also eat insects like mosquitoes that transfer diseases such as West Nile Virus, wildlife officials in Wisconsin said.
While there is no silver bullet to the problem of too many cats, all avenues should be explored, including euthanizing cats that public health or wildlife officials deem problematic, the authors note.
He thinks they probably still have enough room to roam in the U.S. to persist here but may always need a helping hand from federal wildlife officials, who are breeding the animals in captivity to rebuild the population, which struggled even before border security intensified.
The park, which attracts 55 million visitors annually, cooperated with wildlife officials and law enforcement in terminating six alligators on the premises and have also created additional barriers to the site.
Waukesha County culvert extension project threatens Butler's garter snake Madison (AP)-- State wildlife officials say a road project in Waukesha County might end up killing a rare snake.
Madison (AP)-- State wildlife officials say a road project in Waukesha County might end up killing a rare snake.
It's gotten so bad, wildlife officials are considering placing a bounty on the snakes.
Judges say wildlife officials have been slack on science in assessing the need for exterminating wolves, wolverines and cormorants
In 1998 and 2003 the FWS issued two cormorant «depredation» orders allowing aquaculture industry members and state wildlife officials to cull 160,000 cormorants across the nation each year in the name of safeguarding fish stocks.
Since its discovery in 2006 in an upstate New York cave, white - nose syndrome has infected 11 species and killed more than six million bats in 23 states, wildlife officials said.
(Reuters)- Bats in Wisconsin and Michigan have been infected with a disease that has killed millions of the mosquito - eating mammals elsewhere in the U.S. and could have a detrimental impact on farming and forestry, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
Many locals enjoy having the monkeys in the park, but wildlife officials are concerned about overpopulation caused by human feeding, the nonnative animals» ecological impact and the potential for interspecies disease transmission.
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