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New study finds animals do recover from neglectanimal sanctuaries can play an important role in rehabilitating goats

or shelter before arriving at a sanctuary. They created a spatial awareness test which involved giving the animals an opportunity to look for food to understand the link between poor welfare

and might have implications for animal sanctuaries in how they tailor the care they provide for the different sexes.

The study shows that animal rescue centres such as Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats where we collected our data can provide a vital role in reversing long-term neglect once the animals receive excellent care.


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and shelter or avoid predators for example. Research conducted by Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky and research student Michael Yartsev of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department published today in Science reveals for the first time how three-dimensional volumetric space is perceived in mammalian brains.


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not only stabilised but also began to increase with deer coming down from the hostile mountain areas it had sought refuge in


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And by providing additional refuge from predators fleshy seaweeds that drift in and out of seagrass beds can maintain larger grazer populations


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which is expected to reduce the ability of refuges to delay resistance. Refuges consist of standard plants that do not make Bt toxins

and thus allow survival of susceptible pests Under ideal conditions inheritance of resistance is not dominant

and the susceptible pests emerging from refuges greatly outnumber the resistant pests. If so the matings between two resistant pests needed to produce resistant offspring are unlikely.

According to Tabashnik overly optimistic assumptions have led the EPA to greatly reduce requirements for planting refuges to slow evolution of pest resistance to two-toxin Bt crops.

The new results should come as a wakeup call to consider larger refuges to push resistance further into the future Carriã re pointed out.

Our simulations tell us that with 10 percent of acreage set aside for refuges resistance evolves quite fast

and really know how much refuge area is required. Meanwhile let's not assume that the pyramid strategy is a silver bullet.


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and a refuge for 11 globally-threatened bird species. They are also a vital fishing grazing and traditional rice farming resource for around 1. 1 million people.


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and large cats faced with relentless human encroachment will seek sanctuary in the sultry thickets of mangrove

and mangrove swamps as current--and possibly future--wildlife refuges Katarzyna Nowak a former postdoctoral researcher of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton compiled a list of 60 primates

Refuge Habitats for Primates and Felids was published in the journal Folia Primatologica. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Princeton university.


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or succumb later from lack of food and shelter or increased predation. In Australia for instance the koala is especially vulnerable to wildfires that consume the tree canopy as the animals are slow-moving

which they could shelter. In Senegal the lack of equipment and qualified human resources for firefighting make late-season fires an especially large threat.


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Refuge for the sixth consecutive year. During the morning hours on Sunday Feb 3 the chick was observed pipping its way into the world by U s. Fish

when she was incubating an egg in the same area of the refuge. She was at least five years old at the time.


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Temple is also a senior fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation in Baraboo Wis. a stone's throw from the iconic shack where Leopold made many of his observations.

From 1977 until she died in 2011 Aldo Leopold's daughter Nina Leopold Bradley resumed the collection of phenological records near the Leopold Shack.


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of a small prehistoric rock-shelter near the town of Boquete. The cache represents the earliest material evidence of shamanistic practice in lower Central america.

Dickau's group radiocarbon dated charcoal from the base levels of the shelter and discovered it was occupied first more than 9000 years ago much earlier than Ranere originally proposed.

and streams but the humid soils in the shelter destroyed any evidence of animal bones.


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Scientists with the U s. Geological Survey and Eckerd College recently published research on a newly discovered refuge for reef-building corals in mangrove habitats of the U s. Virgin islands.

It is from these threats that corals are finding refuge under the red mangroves of Hurricane Hole.


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and raised by their parents at the U s. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research center in Laurel Maryland were released on the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service's Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin.

These chicks will join a flock of about 95 cranes that inhabit wetlands on the refuge and elsewhere in central Wisconsin during the spring and summer.

Our refuge has a long history of helping with the successful reintroduction of endangered or threatened bird species to the area said Doug Staller Necedah National Wildlife Refuge manager.

Necedah is the summer home for the bulk of the Eastern Migratory Flock of whooping cranes some

The parent-reared chicks arrived at Necedah NWR Saturday where they were housed in separate predator resistant enclosures to provide them a safe place for chicks to roost


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and shelter to hundreds of species and fulfil a role similar to trees in terrestrial forests.


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While sparrows are adept at finding shelter in farmlands and are happy to eat a variety of seeds found in those areas the tinamou


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For example farmers in the United states and Australia have used planting of pest-friendly refuges to delay evolution of insect resistance to genetically engineered corn and cotton.

These genetically modified crops kill certain pests but without refuges the pests quickly adapt. Providing refuges of conventional plants has been especially effective for suppressing resistance in the pink bollworm an invasive pest of cotton.

However Peter Jørgensen also cautions: In many cases decision makers must pay more attention to assuring that long-term benefits of applying these solutions do not come at a short-term cost for some individuals for example from yield loss due to localised effects of pests in a particular year.


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For example numerous studies of A. gambiae taken from African huts have found that virtually all the females collected contained human blood:


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since 1968--a direct result of the establishment of 160 national coastal wildlife refuges and nearly 600000 acres of national seashore in 10 states. â#ecause the'state of the birds'mirrors

the state of their habitats our national wildlife refuges national parks national seashores and other public lands are critical safe havens for many of these species--especially in the face of climate change--one of the biggest


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and it provides the cannibalistic spiders refuge from one another. The accumulation of large predatory spiders in these invaded habitats then results in higher mortality for small toads that have emerged recently from wetlands.


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and it's one of the top reasons they are given back to shelters or pounds. Suddenly an idea was born.


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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


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and pass it on to our children then it's important to preserve not only the cradles of new species the neoendemics but also the refuges of rare and threatened species the paleoendemics;

and areas with clusters of unique but disappearing species (paleoendemics) that often occupy refuges such as high mountains.


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The UW Arboretum long a refuge for Wisconsin's native plants and animals is confirmed the first site for Amynthas agrestis an invasive worm believed to have arrived in the United states from its native range in Japan


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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 analyzed 740 hours of footage that had been shot during the course of a year of 94 chimpanzees living in four different social groups in the sanctuary.


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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.


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These include the U s. Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the northern Gulf of mexico Bermuda and Bonaire all of


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The study funded by The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) also revealed that Chamois can alter their behaviour in the face of warmer temperatures seeking shelter during hot periods rather than moving to higher altitudes.


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and implement resistance management strategies such as providing refuges of standard cotton plants that do not produce Bt proteins and releasing sterile pink bollworm moths.

Planting refuges near Bt crops allows susceptible insects to survive and reproduce and thus reduces the chances that two resistant insects will mate with each other


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and shelter are deprived of that habitat. â#oethis can have cascading effects through the food chainâ#said Bill Overholt an entomology professor at UFÂ##s Indian River Research and Education Center in Fort


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We seem to have found genetic footprints of the retreat of dwarf birch into its current refuges in the Scottish Highlands said Dr Richard Buggs Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary's School of Biological


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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.


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The Central Valley's protected wetlands (federal wildlife refuges state wildlife areas and private lands)


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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.


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The data was collected at Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats in Kent. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Queen Mary University of London.


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and by setting up dark refuges connected by dark corridors for light-sensitive species like bats Lewanzik says.


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and the practice of growing refuges of non-Bt plants that serve as a reservoir for insects with Bt susceptible genes. â#oeour paper argues there is another factor involved:

Each cage contained Bt broccoli and refuges of non-Bt broccoli. They studied populations of diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) larvae a pest of broccoli and their natural enemies ladybird beetles (Coleomegilla maculata) for six generations.

Cages contained different combinations of treatments with and without predators and with and without sprayed insecticides on the non-Bt refuge plants.

Farmers commonly spray insecticides on refuge plants to prevent loss by pests but such sprays can kill predators and prey indiscriminately.

The results showed that diamondback moth populations were reduced in the treatment containing ladybird beetles and unsprayed non-Bt refuge plants.

In contrast Bt plants with no refuge were defoliated completely in treatments without ladybirds after only four to five generations showing rapid development of resistance in the pests.

In the treatment with sprayed non-Bt refuge plants and predators diamondback moth populations were reduced


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or refuges where there were brushy shrubs and even trees such as spruce birch willow and alder.


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and roads but the earth split open and swallowed sections of the forests and bamboo groves that shelter and feed pandas and other endangered wildlife.


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and the Forest Herbarium (BKF--Thailand) discovered a new species of Stone Oak in the Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand.

This isolated sanctuary is popular for its rich bird -and wildlife such as the Blue-banded Kingfisher and Whitehanded Gibbons as well for its rare and beautiful flora like Rafflesia's--known to hold some of the largest flowers on earth.

The wildlife sanctuary covers a region of low-lying forested mountains and is located in the middle of a fascinating transition zone that lies between the northern Indochinese and the southern Sundaland biogeographic regions.

A recent addition to the endemic species of this area is described the newly species of Stone Oak currently known only from the sanctuary.

and has not been recorded outside Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary. During our field survey we found only one individual tree located on a gentle sloping section of closed dense forest explains one of the authors Dr. Strijk.

but additional survey work will have to be undertaken to determine the actual population size within the sanctuary.

and other flora and fauna present in the Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary. The unique species composition high diversity and relatively intact forest structure underscore the importance of strengthening ongoing and future conservation measures at Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary as a key element of wider

conservation efforts in southern Thailand adds Dr. Strijk. Currently more than 300 species of Stone Oak have been described occurring from eastern India to Japan and the eastern tip of Papua new guinea.

The fieldwork and surveys in Ton Pariwat Wildlife Sanctuary by the team of Dutch and Thai botanists are part of ongoing research on the genomics systematics biogeography and evolution of tropical Asian Oaks


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 These new landscapes emphasized aesthetics relaxation recreation and refuge reinforcing emerging notions about which humanâ#ature interactions belonged in the city and which in the country.


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In fact Pauli's research shows that the moths may give their all to the sloth in return for nursery for larvae and shelter and mating grounds for adults.


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Keith Bildstein Director of Conservation Science at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary and a study co-author said:

and other diseases is now the focus of a new effort by the Wildlife Conservation Society the Peregrine Fund and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.

This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Virani of The Peregrine Fund Dr. Hopcraft of Frankfurt Zoological Society Dr. Bildstein of Hawk Mountain Sanctuary and Dr. Rubenstein of Princeton university.


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How Japan's anti-nuclear plan could go nuclear In post-Japan quake & tsunami era, Noah offers emergency shelter


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the Inuit in far northern North america looked to polar bears to see how thick the walls of their igloos should be.


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Asia and South america, found that even these final refuges of threatened species are vulnerable to human encroachment and environmental stresses.


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Using underground air raid shelters from WORLD WAR II, Richard Ballard and Steven Dring hope to transform the space into a unique 2. 5 acre farm that would provide fresh produce to London restaurants and grocery stores.


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In the summer 2009 I went to the remote Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, located about halfway between Hawaii


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but a few recent examples provide shelter and protection for the fuzzier fellow citizens of planet Earth.

Barclay originally discovered a maternity roost of bats during a demolition and had to adapt his project to the tune of six extra weeks and $70, 000.

Because of the declining bat population, British legislation protects bats and their roosts. Fungal disease and habitat destruction have endangered the bats and modern buildings pose new problems for bats pushed out of rural habitats to urban areas because of development.

The concern is so great that the Royal Institute of British Architects is offering a course, in conjunction with the Bat Conservation Trust, on designing bat roosts.


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Excess food is donated now to shelters and soup kitchens. Used food is diverted to feedstock. And food deemed inedible is turned now to compost for new urban gardens around the city.


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With sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, energy and transportation, and education, oedesign for the Other 90%focused on problem solving for the vast majority of the world people who survive under the poverty level


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