Sentence examples for hunting pressure from inspiring English sources

In most scenarios, the un-hunted populations maintained a constant density regardless of hunting pressure elsewhere, and allowed the overall population to persist.

Habitat loss, vehicle strikes, and hunting pressure have also contributed to an 80 percent decline in population since 1960.

Only the fast-breeding rabbits, hares and partridges, and for a while gazelles, could cope with such hunting pressure.

A subsequent decline in hunting pressure allowed populations to stabilize and slowly increase in eastern and southern Africa.

Between the 1950s and '70s, hunting pressure caused the world harp seal population to decline to around 1.5 million animals.

However, ecologists have observed that the populations of some species are threatened by deforestation and hunting pressure.

They might have been prevented from returning at the end of the ice age (when this landmass was still attached to the continent) by human hunting pressure.

McPhee believes the lesula has avoided hunting pressure for the very same reason it avoided science for so long: its cryptic and shy nature.

Because of hunting pressure and the transformation of woodlands into farms, deer were rare throughout the Northeast for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

But the fact is, Dr. Holdaway and Dr. Jacomb wrote, "even minimal levels of human hunting pressure caused an irreversible decline in the moa population".

The highlands have been under intense hunting pressure because of demand in Asian cities for wildlife, both as food and as sources of medicine.