Sentence examples for maintaining large herds from inspiring English sources

A few older animals of low market value were retained including female animals of 10 years or older, lending support to the arguments outlined above about maintaining large herds (Table 5, Figure 3).

By maintaining large herds of cattle, they were putting themselves, the wildlife, and their country in danger, officials said.

Beef prices have surged with inflation, but cattlemen contend that government price controls aimed at preventing domestic beef consumption from falling further have wreaked havoc by making it costly to maintain large herds.

Firstly, pastoralists maintained large herds to ensure that sufficient animals would survive to rebuild the herds after the drought (McPeak 2005).

It was kept this way, he maintains, by large herds of herbivores — aurochs, red deer, tarpans, and European bison.

Environmental groups say that maintaining a large herd in Big Bend can have detrimental effects on water sources.

These commercial herds rarely come into contact with any other herds because they are separated by a physical barrier (a fence) but the transmission of brucellosis can be maintained within each large herd while grazing.

However, the major challenge for pastoralists who own large herds is to maintain the right to use transhumant territories.

Herds can exploit grazing resources in the liberated territories that would otherwise be too distant from water points, whereas in the camps, it permits large herds to be maintained on the periphery where water is deposited in large tanks.

To make the lifestyle tenable, herders need expensive all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and snowmobiles to maintain hundreds of miles of fences between territories and move large herds in accordance with land-use regulations even when they clash with the instincts of the reindeer.

During the rutting season large herds form in which males defend and herd harems.