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May 23, 2001: Dust Bowl Threatening China‘s Future
Following economic reforms in 1978 and the removal of controls on the size of herds and flocks that collectives could maintain, livestock populations ... a massive migration eastward. The options are clear: Reduce livestock populations to a sustainable level or face heavy livestock losses as grassland turns to desert. Return highly erodible ...
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Beef cattle, sheep and goat populations are high in the northern and southern parts of Sumatra; dairy cattle and ... and marketing, while the farmers raise the livestock. While all nine Sumatran provinces have considerable livestock populations with a high potential for smallholder mixed crop-livestock farms, farmers face many problems. For ...
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Sustainable Agriculture Newsletter, Volume 10, Issue 11, November 2002
Japan, Britain, the United States - all experimented with biological weapons aimed at crops and livestock during the world wars of the 20th century. More recently, the former Soviet ... agroterrorism could harm nature and humans as well. "The use of biological weapons against livestock populations or agricultural crops could have potentially disastrous spillover effects on wild species of plants ...
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WWF - Human - Animal Conflict
Asian mountains, and growing human and livestock populations are putting increasing pressure on the remaining leopards and their prey. For example, domestic livestock in Mongolia have increased from ... hectares today. Habitat loss or fragmentation Increases in livestock and a decrease in natural habitat have inevitably resulted in livestock predation by leopards, and subsequent retaliation by herders ...
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OUTGROWING THE EARTH: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures Chapter 3 Moving up the Food Chain Efficiently - Oceans and Rangelands
Most of these are in the pastoral communities of Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Mongolia, and northern and western China. As these populations grew, so did their livestock populations ... . The result is widespread overgrazing, desertification, personal hardship, and slower growth in livestock production. 24 World beef production climbed from 20 million tons in ...
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Mammal Populations of the Colorado Plateau
With the decline of native ungulate populations (Mackie et al.1982) during and following Anglo settlement, large native carnivores such as grizzly bears, gray wolves and mountain lions began to prey on domestic livestock. The ...
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Livestock Waters and Wildlife
Most ranchers also seem to believe it, and they frequently offer it in defense of livestock ... water was not important to the deer or sheep populations." In addition to questioning their utility, there are studies suggesting livestock waters may have negative effects upon native wildlife. ...
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Grazing Research - Ecological Impacts of Livestock Grazing
L. Butler, and C.A. Schmidt. 1995. Effects of differential livestock use on key plant species and rodent populations within selected Oryzopsis hymenoides/Hilaria jamesii communities of Glen Canyon ... . Technical Guidance Bulletin #4: Effects of Human Activity and Habitat Conditions on Mearns Quail Populations. Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, AZ. Brown, D.E. 1997. Water for Wildlife ...
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RANGE magazine.com - Learning to Love Livestock Grazing
King explains, “everyone” thought livestock were necessarily obstructive to wildlife, especially to big game populations. But after 20 years of no cattle grazing, while elk populations had increased all over ... -rotation grazing system proved that livestock can benefit wildlife populations and range conditions at the same time. Joe Egan agrees with this pro-livestock assessment. In fact, if given ...
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