Sentence examples for wildlife disaster from inspiring English sources
"Losing six out of ten of our turtle doves and three out of ten grey partridges in five years is nothing short of an unsustainable wildlife disaster," said RSPB conservation scientist Dr Mark Eaton.
Drawn to what she saw as an inspiring place where dedicated people were making their mark on nature, Davis now finds herself at the epicentre of a wildlife disaster.
Along with the spoon-billed sandpiper, a whole suite of migratory waders from Asia and Australasia which depend utterly on these sites are in increasing danger of extinction, in an emerging wildlife disaster to which the world is paying little attention.
The New York Daily News' Matthew Lysiak is also in Grand Isle, where he was the fortunate beneficiary of a "surreptitious tour of the wildlife disaster unfolding in Louisiana".
To calculate fines under the Endangered Species, Marine Mammal Protection, and Migratory Bird Treaty Acts below, I used the latest data on species deaths provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association, supplemented by "A Deadly Toll: The Gulf Oil Spill and the Unfolding Wildlife Disaster," Center for Biological Diversity, April 2011.
For environmentalists, the Wyoming blizzards of 1983 brought one of the worst wildlife disasters of modern times when a herd of pronghorn antelope stacked up against a rancher's barbed-wire fence, starving and freezing.
Seawater threatens wastewater treatment plants, high tides and rain storms are threaten to overwhelm drainage systems, high temperatures and flooding are harming crops and wildlife, and disaster insurance premium hikes are undermining local economies.
Field sensor networks have important applications in environmental monitoring, wildlife preservation, in disaster monitoring and in border security.
Donors often have personal motivations, be it a love of wildlife, sympathy for disaster victims or memory of a relative lost to disease or war.
If things carry on as now (a big 'if'), I wonder how the farmers who will be affected are going to get through a wildlife and farming disaster without anyone to blame for it.
In the decades after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, wildlife paid a heavy price.
