Sentence examples for declining prey from inspiring English sources

The governor said there were concerns that the lizard's numbers had decreased due to declining prey and shrinking habitat.

Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) populations have dramatically declined due to habitat loss and fragmentation, declining prey base, conflict with livestock and farmed game, and illegal trade.

In areas of high wolf density and declining prey populations, the major causes of death are killing by other wolves and starvation.

Deforestation, ecosystem homogenization, and diversity loss are frequent problems in tropical livestock systems, which can foster substantial human-wildlife conflict when wild carnivores with declining prey bases turn to cattle depredation.

It has been suggested that the impact of predator control on declining prey species may not be sufficient to reverse the trend, and prey that are increasing in abundance will continue to do so [7].

All over the tropics, reefs are in terminal decline, prey to global warming, over-fishing and pollution from hotel sewage.

This assumption of a declining share of prey in predator diets as prey become rare is consistent with some limited field observations of predator-prey interactions involving large marine animals (e. g., fish, seals) [50], [51].

Surprisingly, retrenchment tends not to make declining states tempting prey for other states nor does it promote domestic dysfunction.

Despite high local levels of human activity including livestock grazing, illegal hunting, and declining ibex (key prey) populations, we identified a minimum of five individuals in the study area.

Declining stocks of prey in the orcas' normal wintering areas may be another factor.

Faced with declining habitat and prey, lions are increasingly targeting livestock and people – resulting in retaliatory killing of lions.