Sentence examples for depleting populations from inspiring English sources

Drug companies have also bought up commercial monkey colonies, further depleting populations.

The sheer volume of trade is depleting populations of African adult male elephants, Atencio said, reaching for a polished tusk, carved with renderings of the "big five" in African game.

With a growing Chinese middle class, demand for sea cucumbers has soared, depleting populations in Asian and Pacific waters because of overfishing.

To the surprise of locals, one of the government's proposals to its creditors is to get rid of the special lower VAT rate that applies to a number of Greece's far-flung islands – not just the famous tourist destinations of Mykonos and Santorini, but scores of little-known smaller islands with ageing and depleting populations.

Consumers worldwide would benefit from consistent national policies to eliminate overfishing and rebuild all depleted populations.

At one point, I was tagging lobsters as part of an effort to find ways to revive depleted populations.

The plan would return much of the Trinity's flow to its original course, in the hope of restoring badly depleted populations of salmon.

Since they grow slowly and produce few young, it takes a long time for populations to rebound, and harvesting has depleted populations of these sharks in many areas.

Here we argue that lack of recovery of overexploited intertidal bivalve beds may be partly caused by the loss of important biological feedbacks from depleted populations.

The goal is to secure stable and genetically diverse populations for the future, and in many cases, to increase the number of animals to replenish depleted populations in their natural habitats.

Though more work needs to be done to verify her results with other species, Meffert says that combining her techniques with traditional methods could give biologists a new tool for replenishing severely depleted populations of endangered species.