Sentence examples for population under control from inspiring English sources

If your property has a lot of stray cats around and you want to get them spayed or neutered to help keep them healthy and keep the population under control, you can start a regular and controlled feeding routine.

I think it's a way of keeping the population under control – keep them preoccupied all the time.

Who is going to keep the local witch population under control now that the witch hunt is over?

In East Asia, the samurai wasp parasitizes between sixty and ninety per cent of brown marmorated stinkbug eggs, thereby almost single-handedly keeping its population under control.

But a group of "land-lubber" felines wandered onto the yard in 1893 and finally brought the rat population under control within a few years.

Experts predict that Chicago will be first to get its population under control, discovered about two years after New York's, although, Mr. Hoebeke said, "Chicago is not out of the woods yet, no pun intended".

They serve a critical purpose by picking off sick and injured marine animals and keeping smaller fish populations under control.

While licensed hunting is part of a policy to keep predator populations under control, it is suspected that such populations – and especially the wolves – are kept down by illegal hunting, said Petter Wabakken, an internationally acclaimed expert on wolves.

The research, published in Springer's journal The Science of Nature, highlights the important role birds play in keeping plant-eating insect populations under control.

In the US the current method of keeping mosquito populations under control is to spray their larvae with pesticides.

Leatherback sea turtles, to the benefit of both fish and swimmers, help keep jellyfish populations under control.