and waterfowl enthusiasts as prime wildlife habitat researchers believe that the underwater grass beds at the shallow Susquehanna Flats began to decline in the 1960s
because it has vital wildlife habitats but a very rapidly growing human population that will need more food and more roads.
Wildlife instead of cattlescientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) can give the all-clear:
in a recent study they showed that cheetahs primarily prefer wildlife on their menu. The cheetah is a vulnerable species that only exists on Namibia's commercial farmland in large populations.
Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) investigated the effect of antimicrobial peptides in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) and the Institute for Reproduction of Farm animals
The intensive population study was conducted in a project founded by George Wittemyer of Colorado State university with Save the Elephants and in association with the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Wittemyer is lead author of the new report and a professor in the Department of Fish Wildlife and Conservation Biology at CSU's Warner College of Natural resources.
and Trends of Wetlands in the Coastal Watersheds of the Conterminous United states 2004 to 2009 an interagency supported analysis published by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA.
Representing organizations such as the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society the Zoological Society of London the Geos Institute
Co-author James Watson of the Wildlife Conservation Society says: Primary forests are a matter of significant conservation concern.
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Researchers in the Wildlife Toxicology Laboratory necropsied hundreds of birds throughout a 19-million-acre area of land
It was published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases and provides evidence of how the parasitic outbreak began.
'Other researchers include a key collaborator Alan Fedynich an associate professor and research scientist at Texas A&m University-Kingsville a postdoctoral research associate and three doctoral students in the Wildlife
and other wildlife to cross them safely. Two years ago the New jersey Air National guard agreed to participate in a pilot study to test the feasibility of using culverts to guide snakes under roads as part of a larger study of northern pine snakes at Warren Grove Gunnery Range.
The standoff between grouse managers and hen harrier conservationists is one of the UK's most bitter and contentious wildlife conflicts.
and testing the effectiveness of various solutions ecology can help resolve wildlife conflicts --which can have dramatic impacts on people's lives and livelihoods--worldwide.
#Ravens rule Idahos artificial roostsa new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) U s. Geological Survey (USGS) and Idaho State university (ISU) explored how habitat alterations
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Co-authors include Aviva Glaser from the National Wildlife Federation Doria Gordon from the Nature Conservancy and Deah Lieurance and Luke Flory from the University of Florida.
to save elephants all ivory markets must close and all ivory stockpiles must be destroyed according to a new peer-reviewed paper by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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This is good news for the wildlife and people of the Arctic who survive by hunting caribou
and other toxic chemicals such as PCBS found in wildlife and in Inuit and other aboriginal and non-aboriginal Northerners dependent on hunting Morris said.
The findings published online today in the journal Human ecology suggest that Australia might want to encourage small-scale burning to bolster wildlife populations in certain areas Codding says.
'But they are well aware their fires benefit kangaroos and other wildlife. In fact they see humans as part of a larger ecosystem that has spiritual components--the dreamtime place of creation where ancestors roamed.
By burning when many animals are active fires in the late spring can devastate wildlife.
and winter burns as wildlife is often hibernating underground or have not yet built nests Craine said.
Caitlin Jacobs a University of Florida master's student in wildlife ecology and conservation conducted the study in
and Wildlife Service the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Defenders of Wildlife and supported by JB Ranch
What an important find said Maggie Sporck State Botanist for Hawaii's Division of Forestry and Wildlife.
Organophosphates pose tremendous danger to people and wildlife and sadly it's not unusual for humans to come into contact with these compounds
Frank Lake an ecologist with the U s. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Station will lead a field trip to the Stone Lake National Wildlife Refuge during the Ecological Society of America's 99th Annual
By aligning tribal values with public values you can get a win-win reduce fire along wildlife-urban interfaces
and is an integral component of the native New england wildlife. Maintaining biodiversity gives resilience to our landscape
The majority of research on New england cottontails has come out of UNH much of it under the leadership of John Litvaitis professor of wildlife ecology who has studied the New england cottontail for three decades.
The researchers hope that an improved understanding of how the cottontail moves through the landscape will assist wildlife and land managers in species recovery efforts.
Nowak organized the survey and rescue mission to Oak Creek last month alongside the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service and U s. Forest Service.
Since these pesticides replaced some legacy contaminants that do biomagnify in similar food chains this is good news for the wildlife
and wildlife populations foul drinking water and make recreational areas unsafe. Researchers from North carolina State university are looking to rain gardens as one way to remediate the water quality concerns caused by urban stormwater.
and Wildlife Acoustics Inc. The European nightjar for example is only active at night and is camouflaged very well making it difficult to detect using traditional survey methods.
Bioacoustics is the science of recording of wildlife sounds and processing that data to provide information on species numbers movement or behaviour.
and other wildlife Wich and colleagues write. There is also a need for research to support land use decisions to reconcile economic development great ape conservation and the avoidance of carbon emissions.
or resting in Zambia's Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust sanctuary. On subsequent visits van Leeuwen saw that other chimpanzees in her group had started to do the same.
and control in Great britain demonstrated that the majority of herd outbreaks are caused by multiple transmissions routes--including failed cattle infection tests cattle movement and reinfection from environmental reservoirs (infected pastures and wildlife).
whose captain discovered it in 1802 Palmyra contains a 12-square-kilometer national wildlife refuge part of the larger Pacific Remote Islands Marine National monument established in 2009.
That destruction is linked to loss of habitat for wildlife soil erosion and even accelerated climate change.
or planting new trees so as to make the areas more wildlife-friendly and biodiversity-rich â#but each comes at a cost Putz said.
or low water-use efficiency trees biodiversity will diminish wildlife could suffer and soil erosion could render streams unusable by local villagers. â#oewhen you save a forest from deforestation itâ##s great
and respond to the Caribbean coral reef crisis through joint actions including protecting parrotfish under the Protocol on specially protected areas and wildlife of the Cartagena Convention.
As early as 1968 the Malaysian federal government recommended establishing a wildlife reserve in Belum-Temengor to protect its populations of Asian elephants Malaysian tigers Sumatran rhinoceroses and other large mammals against poaching and logging.
or destroys wildlife habitat. Oil palm plantations also have been associated with dangerous and abusive conditions for laborers.
Hill and Egan also worked with Glenn E. Stauffer a postdoctoral scholar in forest resources and Duane R. Diefenbach adjunct professor of wildlife ecology both of Penn State.
#Protecting and connecting the Flathead National Forest in Montanaa new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) calls for completing the legacy of Wilderness lands on the Flathead National Forest in Montana.
From the 1930's to the present generations of citizens and government leaders have worked to protect this special area through designations of wilderness wild and scenic rivers and protection of critical wildlife habitat.
Wildlife and Wild Lands on the Flathead National Forest Montana WCS Senior Scientist Dr. John Weaver notes that these protections may not be enough in the face of looming challenges such as climate change.
and wildlife species that have been vanquished in much of their range further south. His analysis shows that 90 percent of the Flathead has a very high
These spectacular landscapes provide some of the best remaining strongholds for vulnerable fish and wildlife and headwater sources of clean water.
These roadless refugia offer a rare opportunity to complete the legacy of protecting wildlife and wildlands on this crown jewel of the National Forest system for people today and generations yet to come.
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raising livestockwhile African wildlife often run afoul of ranchers and pastoralists securing food and water resources for their animals the interests of fauna and farmer might finally be unified by the Sodom apple a toxic invasive plant that has overrun vast swaths of East African savanna and pastureland.
The Holy grail in ecology is these win-win situations where we can preserve wildlife in a way that is beneficial to human livelihoods Pringle said.
Since 2006 White-Nose Syndrome has killed an estimated 7 million bats in North america the steepest wildlife decline in the past century.
Through crop raiding a form of human-wildlife conflict hundreds of thousands of marginalized farmers are losing edible crops to damage from these troublesome animals each year.
and appropriate scientific know-how to solve these human-wildlife conflicts is imperative to implementing lasting and robust conflict mitigation.
#In wild yak society, moms are the real climbersa new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that in wild yak societies it's the mothers that are the real climbers.
The study which appears in the June issue of the Journal of Mammalogy is authored by Joel Berger of the Wildlife Conservation Society and the John J. Craighead professor at University of Montana;
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When Ruby died suddenly in April from apparently ingesting rat poison it was a local tragedy as well as a national warning about the serious dangers these chemicals pose to wildlife.
Tufts Wildlife Clinic at Cummings School of veterinary medicine received results of a toxicology screen last week that showed that Ruby tested positive for three different types of second-generation anticoagulant
Veterinarians at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic performed Ruby's necropsy and detected signs of lethal rodenticide poisoning
and trace amounts of two other poisons said Dr. Maureen Murray a wildlife veterinarian and faculty member at Cummings School.
Sadly wildlife is overlooked often in the age-old battle of human versus rodent. Susan Moses a Cambridge resident who had watched Buzz
She recently asked the Tufts Wildlife Clinic to establish the Ruby Memorial Research Fund. The fund's initial goal is to raise $10000 for research to monitor the health effects of rodenticides on birds of prey.
The paper showed anticoagulant rodenticide residues in 86 percent of 161 birds that were tested over five years at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic.
While this factor doesn't necessarily make second-generation poisons more lethal for rodents than first generation products it has devastating consequences for wildlife.
In light of high numbers of children accidentally exposed to second-generation rat poisons as well as the risk to wildlife the EPA tightened the safety standards for consumer use of household rat
So it's very important to understand the larger ramifications of the products used in the home because of their potential harm to children pets and wildlife.
There's a debate among Australians he said about the potential role of dingoes in suppressing introduced pests that have decimated already wildlife there.
To reduce those damages the Wildlife Service of the U s. Department of agriculture has a program to reduce coyote numbers an effort that has drawn criticism from conservation groups.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service manages the restored areas while the undisturbed area at Sioux Prairie is managed by the Nature Conservancy Oak Lake by SDSU and Spirit Mound by the S d. Game fish and Parks Department.
Variation with agethe U s. Fish and Wildlife Service sites that had once been crop or pasture land were restored anywhere from one to four years ago according to Winkler.
#New EU reforms fail European wildlife, experts arguedespite political proclamation of increased environmental focus experts argue that the European union's recent agricultural reforms are far too weak to have any positive impact on the continent's shrinking farmland biodiversity
so they will be of no benefit to European wildlife and biodiversity will continue to decline across the continent.
and its common market continues to drive agricultural intensification across Europe at the expense of wildlife and natural habitats..
This continues to take a heavy toll on wildlife with dramatic declines in everything from the farmland bird index to'permanent'grassland that in newer member states has shrunk over 11%in just the last decade.
The EU Biodiversity target implicitly assumes that the biodiversity-related measures under the CAP are effective at protecting wildlife.
thriving wildlife beautiful landscapes clean water fertile soils land that contributes to a stable climate
while still providing forest cover and wildlife habitat worked equally as well as more intensive treatments in allowing for the protection of homes during the 2011 Wallow Fire a study published in the journal Forest Ecology
but of maintaining pockets of dense forest cover and associated wildlife habitat. To characterize fire severity the researchers established linear transects through each of these three study areas a year after the Wallow Fire.
This would suggest that the greater a fuel treatment's emphasis on wildlife habitat and aesthetic considerations the larger the size of treatment area needed to realize a reduction in fire severity.
Our findings suggest that fuel treatments that promote wildlife habitat and aesthetics are still potentially successful in sufficiently reducing fire severity to provide opportunities to protect residences in the WUI during a fire said Kennedy.
and their livestock into ever-close proximity to natural areas that constitute the habitat of wildlife
and water wildlife and opportunities for recreation to name a few. In two papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences UC Santa barbara's Andrew Plantinga addresses how to strike a balance between providing for humanity's growing needs
and harm fish and wildlife. This according to a first-of-its-kind study released today by scientists at Syracuse University
and gas wells says Margaret Brittingham professor of wildlife resources who conducted a study of bird communities in the Allegheny National Forest.
Thomas completed her master's degree in wildlife and fisheries science and is currently an instructor in the wildlife technology program at Penn State Dubois.
In a recently published issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management the researchers documented the presence
or absence of different songbird species in a range of landscapes including undisturbed forest low-density oil and gas development and high-density development.
and Wildlife Ecology says Williams. We are building on 20 years of David's work for Wisconsin
The results have been published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases. Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) share their habitat with a number of other wild animals as well as with farm animals.
The Pathological Laboratory at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology specializes in such cases. Severe pneumonia as cause of deathnineteen dead chamois from the region of Amstetten Lilienfeld and Salzburg in north-central Austria were investigated.
This puts farm animals as well as wildlife population at risk for interspecies transmission of infections. Close cooperation with hunters and foresters is essential to ensure that any outbreaks are detected as soon as possible.
and can help reduce the harm to wildlife natural assets and human well-being that climate disruption might cause.
and draw a host of butterflies birds and other wildlife that depend on these plants for survival.
De la Rosa's job as director of La Selva Biological Station brings him an unusual number of serendipitous encounters with wildlife.
We just know there are multiple venues where wildlife can acquire resistant strains and move them around in the environment.
#Researchers rethink natural habitat for wildlifeprotecting wildlife while feeding a world population predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050 will require a holistic approach to conservation that considers human-altered landscapes such as farmland
Wildlife and the natural habitat that supports it might be an increasingly scarce commodity in a world where at least three-quarters of the land surface is affected directly by humans
But what if altered agricultural landscapes could play vital roles in nurturing wildlife populations while also feeding an ever-growing human population?
or agriculture migration corridors for wildlife are broken blocking access to food shelter and breeding grounds. A scholarly theory was developed to estimate the number of species in such fractured landscapes where patches of forest surrounded by farms resemble islands of natural habitat.
and wildlife Mendenhall said. To test the island theory against a more holistic theory of agricultural
Conservation opportunities for tropical wildlife are linked tightly to adequate management of these human-modified habitats said co-author Christoph Meyer a researcher at the University of Lisbon's Center for Environmental Biology.
A new approach The fate of much of the world's wildlife is playing out in human-altered landscapes that are threatened increasingly by chemical inputs such as herbicides and pesticides.
and food production to make agricultural lands more hospitable to wildlife by reducing chemical inputs preserving fragments of forest and other natural habitats and rewarding farmers and ranchers for the benefits that result.
and the ongoing drought are just a handful of reasons why there are fewer lesser prairie chickens in the wild today according to the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service
K-State Research and Extension wildlife specialist Charlie Lee said the designation of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species has been anticipated for some time.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Serviceâ##s announcement in late March will go into effect May 12.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service reported that last year the range-wide population of the lesser prairie chicken declined to a record low of 17616 birds an almost 50 percent reduction from the 2012 population estimate.
and Wildlife Service has been working with the FSA to ensure implementation of all aspects of CRP has an overall positive impact on habitat for the lesser prairie chicken.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service in conjunction with the FSA has been developing a conferencing document
along with providing assurances and predictability within the conferencing effort with U s. Fish and Wildlife Service on CRP is important for voluntary landownersâ##continued participation or future enrollment in the program.
and Wildlife Service will allow policy to permit action that early. It will be more in line with the end of the nesting season. â#Pushing early land preparation back allows for the lesser prairie chicken to fulfill its nesting and brooding season
and Wildlife Services with input from the FSA will provide more answers on how CRP in Kansas will be affected due to the listing.
and ecosystem services including water quality and wildlife. So this sector has some opportunities to help improve the quality of land resources as well as mitigating climate change.
To determine whether the physical properties of trees influenced nesting site selection scientists measured the physical characteristics of wood from common tree species at the Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve Uganda.
The Central Valley's protected wetlands (federal wildlife refuges state wildlife areas and private lands)
Dead wood is great habitat for wildlife provides a sheltered environment for young seedlings holds soil
#Iconic boreal bird species declining in the Adirondacksa new study from the Wildlife Conservation Society finds that several iconic Adirondack birds are in trouble with declines driven by the size of their wetland habitats
and other wildlife of the boreal to help contribute to the long term protection of this vulnerable habitat.
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Liberia's status as a biodiversity hotspot and the fact that it is home to some of the last viable and threatened wildlife populations in West Africa has received little media attention in the past.
Here accurate biological datasets on the distribution and abundance of wildlife populations are key for making evidence-based management decisions that balance economic and conservation priorities.
This combination of large-scale habitat destruction and high hunting rates may seriously jeopardize the long-term survival of Liberia's wildlife populations says Dr. Annika Hillers co-author of the article and conservation scientist for The Royal Society
With this study we provide an accurate and comprehensive data-based platform for local wildlife protection authorities policy-makers
what is left of this country's rich wildlife heritage. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
study showswildlife fences are constructed for a variety of reasons including to prevent the spread of diseases protect wildlife from poachers
and to help manage small populations of threatened species. Human-wildlife conflict is another common reason for building fences:
Wildlife can damage valuable livestock crops or infrastructure some species carry diseases of agricultural concern
or property and human activities degrade wildlife habitat. Separating people and wildlife by fencing can appear to be a mutually beneï cial way to avoid such detrimental effects.
But in a paper in the journal Science published today April 4th 2014 WCS and ZSL scientists review the'pros
When areas of contiguous wildlife habitat are converted into islands the resulting small and isolated populations are prone to extinction
In some parts of the world fencing is part of the culture of wildlife conservation--it's assumed that all wildlife areas have to be fenced.
In addition to their ecosystem-wide impact fences do not always achieve their specific aims Construction of fences to reduce human-wildlife conflict has been successful in some places
and wildlife-sensitive land-use planning--can be used to mitigate conï cts between people and wildlife without the need for fencing.
The desire to separate livestock from wildlife in order to create zones free from diseases such as foot
and standardized approaches to meat preparation can prevent spread of diseases without the need to separate cattle from wildlife by fencing.
The authors conclude that as climate change increases the importance of facilitating wildlife mobility and maintaining landscape connectivity fence removal may become an important form of climate change preparedness
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#Researchers design trees that make it easier to produce paperresearchers have engineered genetically trees that will be easier to break down to produce paper
and Wildlife Service (FWS) to protect the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act and efforts by BLM and FWS to establish voluntary conservation and restoration management plans in lieu of endangered species listing mandates.
and Michigan's State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement to help pay for this. In such cases growers could see their return on investment even quicker.
and land cover said the project's leader Leandro Castello assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation In virginia Tech's College of Natural resources and Environment.
The Danau Girang Field Centre is located in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary a strip of rainforest along Sabah's major river squeezed in by vast oil palm plantations on either side.
because conventional wisdom among wildlife biologists and the indigenous Seri people who long inhabited this coastal desert region was had that bighorn sheep not occupied Tiburã n Island before 1975
Ingrid Parker the Langenheim professor of plant ecology and evolution at UC Santa cruz got involved in the marsh sandwort recovery effort at the request of the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS.
For the field studies Bontrager and coauthor Kelsey Webster another UCSC undergraduate worked closely with coauthor Mark Elvin a U s. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist.
but in a region with the Arctic Grayling a candidate for endangered listing the water shortage would affect wildlife.
#Strange bird, sea turtle hatchlings released on protected Indonesian beachworking on a remote and protected beach in Indonesia conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society
and managed by PALS (Pelestari Alam Liar dan Satwa or Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation). â#oethe joint release of maleos and olive ridleys on the same day is a boost to the conservation of both species in Sulawesiâ#said Noviar Andayani Country Director for WCSÂ##s Indonesia Program
Heidi and Harvey Bookman and the Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Fund of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
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