Yet, institutional stakeholder views diverged regarding the desired distribution of jaguars in Brazil, hunting policies, and the effects of hunting and development projects on jaguar conservation.
But hunting and development of coastal areas decreased populations.
Multitudes of lions, leopards, elephants and other beasts once roamed Senegal, but decades of hunting and development wiped out almost all of them.
Centuries of aggressive hunting and development had shrunk the once-spectacular abundance of American wildlife to a degree that prompted widespread bipartisan alarm.
It is, as well, the last redoubt of the Florida panther, the stealthy and powerful cat that roamed the southeastern United States until hunting and development isolated it here by the mid-20th century.
He is now on the hunt for a development in Istanbul that would interest Mr. Meier.
Many reasons are offered: fewer places to hunt thanks to development; reduced game numbers in some areas as resurgent cougars, bears and wolves grab their share; and busy schedules.
Jessica Lefevre (center) represents subsistence whaling villages in Alaska, helping protect their traditional hunting areas from development.
Consider the example of the polar bear, which is primarily threatened by climate change but also adversely affected by other human activities such as hunting and energy development.
Land development, hunting for sport or to protect crops, the pollution of seas and fresh waters, and the contamination of cropland have reduced many animal species, though strong efforts have been made to preserve those threatened with extinction, in such refuges where they still live.
