Sentences with phrase «wildlife officials said»

[On June 22, state wildlife officials said they were «confident that the alligator responsible for the attack has been removed.»]

(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.

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)- 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.

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.

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.

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.

Since the beginning of July, at least 124 bottlenose dolphins have washed ashore on the east coast of the US, all of them either dead or dying, and wildlife officials say that a fast - spreading infection could be behind the deaths.

Not exact matches

Residents and environmentalists argued that the development would destroy valuable oak savannahs, high quality wetlands and wildlife - a concern recently echoed by officials from the Army Corps of Engineers, village officials said.

In most cases, he says, military officials simply believe that military exercises are more important than protecting wildlife.

Judges say wildlife officials have been slack on science in assessing the need for exterminating wolves, wolverines and cormorants

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.

Endosulfan — used largely on vegetables, apples, melons and cotton — «poses unacceptable risks» to farm workers and wildlife, EPA officials said.

The scientists, including several retired former officials from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, said in a letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington that drilling for oil and gas in the refuge would be «incompatible with the purposes for which the refuge was established,» protecting fish and wildlife populations and the environments in which they live.

The amount of wildlife displaced and killed by the tornadoes was relatively low, officials said.

Orange County Animal Control will open its $ 1 million facility next week and officials say the new building will allow them to control the pet and wildlife population more efficiently.

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.

The companies are also working with FWS officials to come up with ways to identify species, not yet in commerce, that might become invasive; this risk assessment could be a stopgap approach to screening out potential wildlife diseases and would «say to the pet trade: «Beware — don't deal with these,»» Meyers says.

Environmentalists said they hoped that the widely publicized event, which was attended by state officials, foreign diplomats and wildlife campaigners, would raise awareness within China of the dramatic scale of elephant poaching.

EPA officials said their agency is «acting under the law and using the best science available to protect water quality, wildlife and Appalachian communities who rely on clean waters for drinking, fishing and swimming.»

Interior officials have said that the current federal budget for the nation's wildlife refuge system is insufficient to prevent the continued ingestion of lead paint by Laysan albatross chicks.