A Zookeeper's Life (Op-Ed) Christopher Scoufaras is a zookeeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)' s Queens Zoo.
and relegated wildlife to small parcels of protected lands. This fragmentation has had its greatest impact on highly migratory species like buffalo that require large intact landscapes.
In what was the first wildlife restoration effort in the world buffalo were saved through the persistent efforts of early conservation champions like Theodore Roosevelt William Hornaday Ernest Thompson Seton
and wildlife but unfortunately are no longer able to fully express that relationship because of the absence of buffalo.
My wildlife expert colleagues at NRDC are recommending several steps that the EPA can take to protect monarchs.
and wildlife pollute water and deplete nutrients in the soil. Excess fertilizer from agriculture is a significant source of global-warming pollution.
The World Wildlife Fund has determined that DNA evidence proves that the Borneo pygmy elephantis genetically different from other Asian elephants.
According to the African Wildlife Foundation there are around 470000 African elephants roaming the globe. The African elephant can be identified by its ears.
because it will be worn more down than the less dominant tusk according to the World Wildlife Fund.
and several other countries in taking a stand against wildlife trafficking. Earlier this month Belgian Deputy Prime minister Laurette Onkelinx announced plans to destroy all the illegal ivory seized by customs on April 9.
and the Wildlife Conservation Society estimates that 96 elephants are killed each day by poachers in Africa.
and smuggling busts by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service in November. Officials in Hong kong also announced their plan to burn more than 30 tons of elephant tusks and ivory products throughout the first half of this year.
#Developing World Boasts Leading Women Conservationists (Op-Ed) Danielle Labruna is a geographic information systems specialist in the Conservation Support Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS.
Blogs from the Wildlife Conservation Society. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.
& Mary in 1956 and has been active in wildlife recovery and restoration efforts ever since he was called a legend more than 20 years ago
Not Popcorn and Crumbled Bread (Op-Ed) Deborah Robbins Millman is the director of Cape Wildlife Center one of New england's largest wildlife rehabilitation centers
There has been little scientific study done on the condition yet most wildlife and waterfowl experts agree the overwhelming cause of angel wing is an unhealthily high protein and/or carbohydrate-based diets.
Wild Animals Suffer on'Junk Food'Diets Cape Wildlife Center our wildlife rehabilitation center based in Barnstable Mass
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When the kits leave the nest they don't travel farther than 2 miles from home according to the Massachusetts Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Joel Berger a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and chair of wildlife biology at the University of Montana posted the picture on Twitter from eastern Russia's remote Wrangel Island.
One of the bison a female named Glen Rosa born in July 2012 was raised at Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park
and genetic diversity within the group Douglas Richardson head of living collections for Highland Wildlife Park said in a statement.
David Ainley a senior wildlife ecologist at ecological consulting firm H. T. Harvey & Associates who studies Antarctic penguin colonies says that aside from giving Magellanic chicks the chills rain can also damage the burrows
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has estimated that some 96 elephants are killed each day on average mostly for their ivory.
The African Wildlife Foundation's CEO Patrick Bergin also said that by incinerating its stockpile Hong kong will raise awareness that owning ivory has a dark side one that is connected to wholesale elephant slaughter civil unrest terrorism and a complex supply
One species that is implicated in human wildlife conflict is the brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea. Brown hyaenas are classified as Near Threatened#with an estimated 2500 free ranging animals remaining in South africa.
Wildlife surveys have been enhanced greatly by the development of camera traps. A key factor is the capture confirmation
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the Florida panther the Costa rican puma and the Eastern puma as endangered.
NASA's Earth Observatory released a new high-resolution image of an Alaskan forest near the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge that has been left off of most maps.
#USDA Wildlife Services Should End Indiscriminate Killing (Op-Ed) Zack Strong is an NRDC wildlife advocate in Bozeman Mont.
This op-ed was adapted from one that appeared on The Wildlife News. Strong contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices:
Each year Wildlife Services a little-known agency within the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) shoots traps and poisons millions of animals including about 100000 native carnivores ostensibly to resolve conflicts between people and wildlife.
However thousands of these animals are killed unintentionally and many more are killed before any conflict has occurred even.
carefully documents the non-selective nature of many of the lethal devices and methods used by Wildlife Services
and interviews former Wildlife Services agents who explain that inevitably these practices kill many wild animals by mistake.
For example Wildlife Services uses spring-loaded devices called M-44s that shoot cyanide into the mouth of whatever animal happens to tug on the baited head.
Wildlife Services agents also use a variety of traps and snares. These devices often capture non-target animals including rare and threatened species such as wolverines lynx and grizzly bears.
According to Wildlife Services'own data in 2012 the agency mistakenly caught and killed more than 520 animals in leghold traps
A Contemporary Analysis of Wildlife Trapping in the United states: Even though I was experienced an professional trapper my trap victims included non-target species such as bald eagles and golden eagles a variety of hawks and other birds rabbits sage grouse pet dogs deer
Another particularly ugly method employed by Wildlife Services is shooting predators from planes and helicopters sometimes killing them sometimes just catastrophically wounding them.
Perhaps most egregiously Wildlife Services is funded largely by taxpayer dollars and many of its operations occur on federal and state lands.
This means that in many instances the federal government is using public funds on public lands to kill publicly owned wildlife to benefit a private few.
It's why we've pushed for federal legislation prohibiting the use of poisons to kill wildlife.
And it's why we'll continue to work toward reasonably reforming Wildlife Services particularly its program of predator control by banning the use of indiscriminate poisons requiring prioritization of nonlethal prevention measures
and dollars spent on killing wildlife especially the mistakes. The author's most recent op-ed was Montana Landowners May Soon Shoot Trap More Wolves.
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These forests provide food (especially fruiting trees) habitat and connectivity to other patches of forest for wildlife.
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have documented use of the corridors by white-lipped peccaries an important indicator species that reveals much about the health of the ecosystem.
and habitat that wildlife need and increases the chance of conflict between people their cows and predators with fewer and fewer prey options.
There are ways to preserve the traditional ranching way of life in the Pantanal that protect its magnificent wildlife populations.
Finally awareness of the unique success story that is traditional Pantanal ranching should encourage more visitors birders wildlife aficionados families interested in a ranch vacation to come.
What they will find will surely alter their perception of Brazil as a land known more for deforestation than sustainable ranching that supports rather than undermines the protection of local wildlife.
According to the World Wildlife Federation there are only 20000 to 25000 polar bears left. The IUCN lists sun bears and sloth bears as vulnerable due to habitat loss. e
#A Centenary for the Last Passenger pigeon (Op-Ed) Steve Zack is coordinator of Bird Conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS.
and created numerous parks and reserves for wildlife. Arguably such actions and public interest have meant fewer extinctions
According to the World Wildlife Federation& (WWF) gorillas are the world's largest primate. Mountain gorillas live in Rwanda Uganda and the Democratic republic of the congo on green volcanic mountains.
and has a population of 900000 according to the African Wildlife Foundation. Male water buffalo have horns that curve backward.
An account of the eradication is published in the Journal of Wildlife Management1. The island has been monitored
The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed on 22 october to designate around 500,000 square kilometres of critical habitat 96%of which is sea ice for the polar bear.
but the US Fish and Wildlife Service says there are now more than 650,000 in the United states, the Caribbean and Latin america.
and since then it has killed millions of cattle and other wildlife throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle east and the Indian subcontinent.
regional efforts and focused on widespread vaccination programmes and on long-term monitoring of cattle and wildlife.
It not only kills cattle and other wildlife, it also causes famines when people in developing countries lose the beasts they need to plough their fields,
and other wildlife around the world since it first spread from Asia to Europe in the herds of the invading tribes, causing outbreaks during the Roman empire in 376-386.
The programme's success depended on widespread vaccination programmes and long-term monitoring of cattle and wildlife.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has denied endangered-species protection to the American pika (Ochotona princeps.
the director of the World Wildlife Fund's science programme and lead author of the paper.
says Erasmus Tarimo, the director of wildlife at Tanzania's Ministry of Natural resources and Tourism.
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) shares three distinct populations of elephants with the Tanzania National parks,
Environmentalists raised concerns last year that drilling could affect wildlife in the region, including walrus and beluga whales.
such as the US Forest Service or Fish and Wildlife Service, says Cameron, also a conference organizer.
The spill severely contaminated two tributaries of the Danube, killing all wildlife in the small River Marcal.
and Wildlife Service has set aside roughly 484,000 square kilometres in Alaska and the surrounding seas as a'critical habitat'for the polar bear (Ursus maritimus),
How much wildlife is harmed by global warming depends on how stressed the system is by all the other things humans are doing locally.
Using a species extinction calculator model3 that examines the effects of land-use change on wildlife,
Wildlife threatened by Fukushima radiation: Nature Newsradiation released by the tsunami-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could have long-lasting consequences for the natural environment in the vicinity of the damaged Plant scientists estimate that in the first 30 days after the accident on 11 march, trees,
Radioecologists with The french Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (ISRN) in Cadarache converted concentrations of radioisotopes measured in the soil and seawater into the actual doses that various groups of wildlife were likely
The team then plugged those concentrations into a piece of software called ERICA (Environmental Risk from Ionising Contaminants) to calculate the radiation dose that various groups of wildlife would have received.
the Fukushima accident could help scientists to gain a better understanding of the effects of nuclear radiation on wildlife and the environment.
says Paul Telfer, head of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Congo programme in Brazzaville. The Amazon basin in South america, the Congo Basin in Central africa and the Borneo-Mekong Basin in Southeast asia are home to about 80%of the world's rainforests and two-thirds of global terrestrial biodiversity.
The New york-based Wildlife Conservation Society a summit partner, estimates that more than a billion people make their living from the three regions.
Andrew Cunningham, a wildlife epidemiologist at the Institute of Zoology in London, and his colleagues fear that the next big epidemic could come from henipaviruses,
says Peter Hudson, a wildlife epidemiologist at Pennsylvania State university in State College. As urbanization spreads we become more exposed.
says Nicholas Wilkinson, a Vietnam-based wildlife ecologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is working with the conservation group WWF.
and the Wildlife Conservation Society in New york intends to include leeches in its upcoming surveys of Laos."Everyone is excited, unsurprisingly,
algal blooms and damage to important wetlands, eucalyptus forests and wildlife. To address these problems,
establishing a"pollution diet for the Bay that will help restore the natural habitat for fish and other wildlife.
which will serve as a sanctuary for native Florida plants and wildlife. We have created or enhanced more than 540 public coastal recreation areas,
he has mounted a legal case for consideration by India s Central Empowered Committee (CEC), a panel of experts appointed by the nation s Supreme court to rule on issues concerning forests and wildlife.
Battles over wildlife management are hardly unique to England. In the United states, environmentalists and ranchers spar over wolves,
and are valuable to wildlife, Â and can help in the search for naturally resistant trees.
an expert on ivory at the wildlife trade-monitoring network TRAFFIC. Still, the bust is clearly not small,
The team works with national agencies such as the Kenya Wildlife Service, as well as Interpol, and Wasser says that it has analysed
) It includes $150 Â million each for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
Wildlife trade meeting endorses DNA testing of seized ivoryif you go into a bar in Bangkok tonight,
Tom Milliken, who works for the wildlife-trade monitoring group TRAFFIC, which is headquartered in Cambridge,
the new list ranks ecosystems using factors such as rate of shrinkage, disruption to wildlife and risk of ecosystem collapse.
and depleting native wildlife. Polio in Somalia Somalia has recorded its first case of wild poliovirus since March 2007
and their dogs so they teamed up with Alex Greenwood, head of the wildlife diseases department at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin,
because we will have increasing TB in our cattle, increasing TB in our wildlife, and that will cause spillover of TB to other livestock, to potentially domestic animals and potentially to humans.
That includes cattle movement controls, increasing biosecurity, development of vaccines and control of the wildlife reservoir.
And in our case the wildlife reservoir is badgers. Defraian Boydthe problem is tuberculosis not badgers.
Clearly reducing wildlife populations and killing cattle is not going to actually produce the elimination that we re really striving for.
it includes other people who care about the countryside and about wildlife
How the chicken lost its penisthe case of the missing bird penis is a longstanding mystery in evolutionary biology.
28 july-1 august Scientists discuss conflicts between humans and wildlife at the 50th annual conference of the Animal Behavior Society in Boulder,
and authorities in Shanghai feared that herbicides would damage native plants, wildlife and local fisheries.
but also provide an incentive to protect wildlife habitat: the more forest grew on and near a coffee farm,
"Based on this study, we know that native wildlife can provide you with a pretty significant benefit,
"The whole culture in wildlife biology and conservation circles has been that you can t approximate Mother Nature,
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013essence of elephants'by Greg du Toit depicts the animals at night.
Michael Nichols, National geographic/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013'The President's crown'by Michael Nichols displays a giant sequoia tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in all its glory.
Sergey Gorshkov/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013to take'The cauldron, 'Sergey Gorshkov had to approach an erupting volcano by helicopter.
Garth Lenz/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013in'Oil spoils'by Garth Lenz, an aerial view shows the devastation caused by tar-sands mining in Alberta, Canada.
Toshiji Fukuda/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013'Tiger untrapped'by Toshiji Fukuda shows an endangered Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica.
Luis Javier Sandoval/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013'Dive buddy'by Luis Javier Sandoval depicts an endangered green turtle (Chelonia mydas.
Brent Stirton/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013in'Ivory trash'by Brent Stirton, a Kenyan ranger inspects elephants killed by poachers.
Mike Veitch/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013'The fish trap'by Mike Veitch shows a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) actively sucking on a fishing net in Indonesian waters.
These pictures and more are on display at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition at the Natural history Museum in London, from 18 october
which is funded largely by the US Fish and Wildlife Service programme Wildlife Without Borders. For a species that uses acoustic communication
that monitors trade in wildlife. And figures for ivory hauls in media reports collected each month by conservation group Save the Elephants,
when the international ban on ivory trading was introduced has this year set up a task force to combat the illegal wildlife trade.
and Wildlife Service will destroy its stockpile of contraband elephant ivory on 14 Â November, officials announced last week.
But the US Fish and Wildlife Service is expected now to lift the legal safeguards, after a government advisory panel of wildlife officials endorsed delisting the bear last month.
For Christopher Servheen, a biologist who oversees grizzly-bear recovery efforts at the Fish and Wildlife Service in Missoula, Montana, that is not surprising."
But those criticisms are rejected by Frank van Manen, a wildlife biologist with the US Geological Survey in Bozeman, Montana, who led the diet study.
At that point, the Fish and Wildlife Service would open a 60-day public-comment period to seek reaction.
Navigating backwards and forwards in time, one could track changes in everything from crops, forests and wildlife movement to urban sprawl and natural disasters, all with unrivalled temporal precision.
Potential scientific applications of space video include observing volcanic eruptions, forest fires, hurricanes and the movement of wildlife,
Photoshotpoliticians vow to get tough on poaching A major political meeting in London has agreed to ramp up the fight against illegal wildlife trafficking
Nations pledge to make poaching a'serious crime'In a renewed effort to stop the dramatic rise in poaching that is devastating African wildlife,
and an estimated global illegal trade in wildlife products of US$20 billion a year a figure that does not include timber
pledged to strengthen their legislation to ensure that the trade of wildlife is regarded as a serious crime a technical definition under United nations rules that should ensure tougher penalties for those convicted of dealing in elephant ivory, rhino horn and other animal products.
More resources are needed still to fight wildlife trafficking, says Travers, but the attention now focused on the issue is a huge advance."
because we believe illegal wildlife trafficking is completely out of control. The surge in elephant and rhino poaching in the past few years is believed widely to have been driven by the growing economies in the far east, especially China,
Many speakers said that the problem also stems in part from the lenient sentences given to convicted wildlife traffickers,
"Even when caught, the penalties these people suffer are much lower than those for other crimes, Davyth Stewart, who works on wildlife crime for Interpol in Lyon,
Stewart also warned that the rising price of illegal wildlife products is driving poachers to become increasingly ruthless."
and to target people higher up the poaching chains through tax and money laundering laws as well as through wildlife crime laws.
Amid harrowing tales of slaughtered wildlife, there was a sense at the meeting that the attention now being given to the subject might bring changes that will make a difference to animals currently under threat."
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) says that wolves in the lower 48 Â states no longer face extinction (see Nature 501,143-144;
which is engineered to be resistant to insect pests. 12-13 february London hosts a global conference on the illegal trade in wildlife.
In May 2013, the United nations officially characterized international wildlife and timber trafficking as a"serious crime,
Not only is this young man (Noah Graham) tremendously lucky others are too for the swift actions of wildlife officials.
or sleep under the stars on the ground in the middle of a popular National Forest campground in a place known to be trafficked highly by humans as well as wildlife?
and anyone who has a different view on how wolves are managed is a wildlife hating maniac.
As a wildlife biologist working to ensure wolves remain on the landscape I find it disheartening
(and most wildlife professionals')wish that both of the highly radicalized and irrational sides of the wolf debate would consider actual science
(I mean really country) don't go running to file reports everytime there's a bump in with local wildlife
I too have background in wildlife biology yet find it extremely hard not to scream at my computer
Social perspective on wildlife management policies must be taken into consideration but my question is how can we responsibly manage wildlife
when emotions run rampant -when emotions trump science and logic? It would be unbiased wonderful if wolf biologists
and wildlife officials construct a documentary aired on PBS Animal Planet Discovery and the like telling the TRUTH about wolves conservation
or receive Defenders of Wildlife or Sierra Club mailings asking for money to protect the beautiful endangered wolves.
and completely misconstrue information making it out to be a horrid tool of wildlife management while failing to recognize their hypocrisy.
Tadamichi Morisaka an assistant professor at Kyoto University's Wildlife Research center says that dolphins do engage in masturbation without ejaculation a lot as well as other non-breeding-related genital touching called sociosexual behavior especially between males.
No it's not meant for people--the architects see it as an artificial habitat for wildlife.
Kudos for be inventive towards wildlife! I'm sorry but I completely fail to see the point of something like this-2 months to print & 4 days to build?
Conservation of wildlife habitat is the main theme which should be stressed if beautiful species such as this animal is to survive into the distant foreseeable future e
GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
Maybe you don't understand the difference between wildlife management and extermination. We stopped exterminating wolves and a host of other species in the U s a long time ago.
Allowing hunters to purchase licenses to hunt a limited number of wolves is called wildlife management.
and Wildlife Service page on Grey Wolves you so helpfully provided: Long-term the Service expects the entire NRM population to maintain a long-term average of around 1000 wolves.
The wolf hunting is being managed by the Fish Wildlife and Parks department there which I have worked at.
With Friends like these wildlife doesn't need any enemies!@@firehorn you turned far too easily...
Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move or die from drowning. As far as the release of carbon dioxide with the European/Colonial settlement of North america and the beaver trapping that occurred from the 1500's to the 1800's-give me a break.
This would give more jobs currently for the planting help to lower C02 in the environment help wildlife and help stop water runoff and erosion.
Second if this also an apartment complex I trees also come with wildlife and bugs which is not good for people or the structure of the building.
Ecologists and animal welfare agencies could use them to hunt down poachers and monitor savannah wildlife.
I later learned was illegal to do (without a wildlife rehab license of some sort). I'll tell you baby possums are really fun to play with
Go the The Wildlife Center of Virginia website for more info. wildlifecenter. org/news events/news/help-stop-fox-pens-virginiacome here little fox let us inbreed you into submission:
It's called wildlife management and it's a necessary part of modern society since we're not hunter-gatherers anymore
but wildlife management is humane. Sometimes the gritty details of maintaining national forests and parks and their wildlife is a little too real for squeamish city-dwellers
but the virtue of the system is that it limits the number of animals which also reduces the number of them that would otherwise die of starvation which is a particularly gruesome way to perish that entails a lot of suffering.
I have been a subscriber to National geographic for most of my life enjoying especially the articles about wildlife.
or destroyed every ten seconds according to the World Wildlife Fund. So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.
which manages the red list of information on threatened and endangered wildlife. 3: 53 p m.:
These tropical forests are also important biodiversity hot spots that support incredible wildlife. Shinta Widjaja Kamdani of the Indonesian Chamber of commerce tells the press that this pledge is not just about signatures on a page
This aspect of wildlife forensic science is supported by the United nations Office for Drugs and Crime and has already proved highly successful in tracking seizures and locating their source.
With that knowledge pressure applied saw Zambia s director of wildlife replaced and its courts start to impose harsher sentences for ivory smugglers in order to tackle the problem at source.
The illegal trade in wildlife is highly profitable and well-organised. If nations wish to save the African elephant then action to provide
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