In addition to population monitoring, volunteers check for breakage in the 2m-high, 20km-long, 1m-deep anti-dingo and dog fence that surrounds the park, and fill up water containers placed around the reserve for the wombats each day.

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Accurate knowledge, and monitoring, of the population of banknotes could be a powerful tool.

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Only four of the 56 species studied in the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme saw an increase in population size.

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The MFO is a small international command, remote from the Egyptian-Israeli border, manning small monitoring outposts distant from any civilian population centers and lightly armed.

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This could allow us to divide the general population into risk categories, in order to better target monitoring and preventative strategies, such as screening for breast and bowel cancer, to those at greatest risk.

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It is part of a monitoring project across 10 sites in Suffolk to measure the size of the dormouse population.

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The results of the proposed project should contribute to improve capacity building in environmental monitoring, to assess the extent of contamination in specific regions, to raise environmental awareness among local population and to improve or amend environmental legislation in African countries.

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