This variant of the rainbow trout has seen its populations fall in some areas of California where it is protected, but it's hardly the endangered species the press made it out to be.
Just in the last century, when its populations were far smaller, periodic droughts in sub-Saharan Africa claimed hundreds of thousands of lives or even more.
Its restriction to specific habitats, and its frequent disturbance by human activity, well-meaning and otherwise, have made its populations isolated and prone to the effects of inbreeding.
The Brodhead once surrendered them in great numbers, and its populations were known for darkly blotched wings of a particularly intense olive.
With its populations of rhinos and elephants, the park is a draw for professional poaching gangs, a resurgent menace all over Africa.
For a time, it was a troublesome destroyer of crops and ornamental plants, but then, in many of the eastern areas, ways were devised to keep its populations at relatively low levels — without large-scale spraying.
Isla de la Plata, 25 miles off the coast is rather unfairly tagged "the poor man's Galápagos" for its populations of frigatebirds and blue-footed boobies, as well as a small colony of sea lions.
Marsabit National Park and Reserve in the north is noted for its populations of large mammals such as lions, elephants, rhinoceroses, zebras, and giraffes.
Its populations declined drastically in Europe but are now expanding again, including into the Alps.
Its populations have been hit hard by the weevil and are declining rapidly.
Melton's group found 230 genes that were overlapping in its populations.
