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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wildlife
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cookery/wildlife/news etc programme
▪ More and more people are watching cookery programmes on TV.
a wildlife habitat
▪ The land next to the harbour is perhaps the most threatened wildlife habitat in Britain.
bird/wildlife etc sanctuary
▪ The park is the largest wildlife sanctuary in the US.
wildlife conservation
▪ More woodland is needed for wildlife conservation.
wildlife refuge
▪ a wildlife refuge
wildlife reserve
▪ a wildlife reserve
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
federal
▪ A federal bill on wildlife trade has been mired in Ottawa since 1992; it may be enacted soon.
▪ The 20 state and federal wildlife areas and refuges are open for duck hunting generally on Wednesdays and weekends.
important
▪ Land could be sold off or developed, causing significant harm to present areas of natural beauty and important wildlife habitats.
▪ Her group, Keeping Track, is dedicated to identifying, monitoring, and educating on important wildlife habitat and travel corridors.
▪ The grazing marshes adjacent to the river are an important wildlife habitat.
▪ Wet gravel pits are generally recognised as important habitats for wildlife, particularly in view of the increasing drainage of wetlands.
large
▪ The region also has one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in the world.
▪ The growing area should be fenced to keep livestock or large wildlife away.
local
▪ Make this the year you join your local county wildlife trust.
▪ He had a deep knowledge of the habits of all the local wildlife and an uncanny knack of befriending them.
▪ Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck, used to frighten off local wildlife.
▪ It has done so admirably, but it has also generated immense interest among local wildlife.
other
▪ Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.
▪ The chemicals upset the balance of the environment and killed not only the whitefly but also other wildlife including the bumble bee.
▪ The fear is that thousands of birds and other native wildlife like seals and otters could die in the oily bath.
▪ Without doing so, we could miss vital factors of detriment both to water voles and other wetland wildlife.
▪ There's an amazing variety of wild flowers, insects, birds and other wildlife.
▪ Do not disturb nesting birds or other wildlife.
rich
▪ With areas like Skomer, Skokholm, Grassholm containing such a rich myriad of wildlife, much is at stake.
▪ Another classically disfigured landscape that can be rich in wildlife is the sewage farm.
▪ The land is rich in wildlife and many plants still survive from the time when the area was marsh.
▪ Gemsbok national park is also rich in wildlife and is very popular with visitors.
▪ The surrounding countryside is very beautiful, with lime-stone hills, caves, moors and a rich diversity of wildlife.
■ NOUN
area
▪ The money could be better spent protecting existing wildlife areas.
▪ The 20 state and federal wildlife areas and refuges are open for duck hunting generally on Wednesdays and weekends.
▪ So it's still a pretty good wildlife area - and we must try to keep it that way.
▪ It was outstanding at a number of public wildlife areas.
▪ Ensuring important public access to the countryside by repairing footpaths, and fencing to protect sensitive wildlife areas.
biologist
▪ Fitzhugh, other experts and wildlife biologists gathered at a special conference last week in San Diego.
conservation
▪ Strong science-based strategies for wildlife conservation have emerged over the last one hundred years.
▪ Also in these seminars, discussion will focus on wildlife conservation.
▪ They are extraordinary plumes, and they certainly altered the face of international wildlife conservation.
habitat
▪ It provided grazing land, timber, fruits and fuel, while remaining an undamaged wildlife habitat.
▪ Her group, Keeping Track, is dedicated to identifying, monitoring, and educating on important wildlife habitat and travel corridors.
▪ This project will estimate the benefits and costs of wildlife habitats and compare the results using different valuation techniques.
▪ It also aims to preserve wildlife habitat and agricultural land.
▪ The grazing marshes adjacent to the river are an important wildlife habitat.
▪ The city left the natural wash intact, and the area now serves as both flood control and urban wildlife habitat.
hospital
▪ It all adds up to a summer of hard work for staff at the wildlife hospital near Aylesbury.
▪ But there's no summer holiday at the wildlife hospital.
▪ Now he's operating from a purpose-built wildlife hospital.
refuge
▪ The wildlife refuge may contain as much as three billion barrels.
▪ The island of Angistri went up in flames within minutes of being declared a wildlife refuge.
▪ The basis for the great national forest, park, monument, and wildlife refuge systems of the present had been laid.
reserve
▪ The impressive wildlife reserve of the Algonquin Provincial Park is a stunning array of native animals in the wild.
▪ Many wildlife reserves and parks are too dangerous for park rangers, let alone tourists.
sanctuary
▪ Read in studio A wildlife sanctuary has appointed it's first resident artist.
▪ A wildlife sanctuary is releasing eight of the animals into a special protected set.
▪ At the wildlife sanctuary in Caerlaverock you can see natterjack toads, and in winter flocks of geese arrive.
site
▪ Projected figures suggest that over 1,500 wildlife sites would be damaged or destroyed in the national roads programme.
▪ They picked fights with festival-goers on their way to wildlife sites located in the middle of hunting territory.
trade
▪ The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so.
▪ A federal bill on wildlife trade has been mired in Ottawa since 1992; it may be enacted soon.
■ VERB
encourage
▪ As the Gypsey Race meanders through the estate it encourages and supports much wildlife and some quite rare birds.
▪ The treaty contains seven personal pledges to encourage wildlife protection, save energy, use recycling schemes and join environmental groups.
▪ Re-planting will have to take place each spring to encourage wildlife and gamebirds.
▪ And nine ponds have been created to encourage wildlife.
protect
▪ Nor are they conditioned by upbringing or tradition to protect wildlife.
▪ Never throw litter into ponds or streams. 10 Protect wildlife, plants and trees.
▪ The money could be better spent protecting existing wildlife areas.
▪ It has been carefully designed to develop and protect wildlife and plants while attracting many thousands of visitors.
▪ Britain's threatened countryside; safeguarding our seas; and protecting Britain's wildlife.
▪ Ensuring important public access to the countryside by repairing footpaths, and fencing to protect sensitive wildlife areas.
threaten
▪ Intensive salmon farms threaten wildlife, the environment and our tourist industry.
▪ The broken tanker has leaked thousands of tonnes of crude oil and threatens to destroy the wildlife paradise of the Shetlands.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The organization was set up to protect wildlife across Europe.
▪ The park has an abundance of wildlife.
▪ The Sea of Cortez is rich with wildlife.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I wonder if the company have any idea how much wildlife has been killed by the lack of water.
▪ Originally, collecting wildlife art was more of an avocation for us.
▪ Rare wildlife, national parks and villages are all threatened.
▪ Strong science-based strategies for wildlife conservation have emerged over the last one hundred years.
▪ The maximum punishment for illegally killing and selling fish or wildlife is $ 30, 000 and a year in jail.
▪ There she started her career as a wildlife artist.
▪ These tiny havens are where the wildlife you see in your neighborhood retreat.
▪ Today, hunting is no longer allowed and tourists visit these national parks to view and photograph the wildlife in their natural habitats.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wildlife

also wild life, "fauna of a region," 1879, from wild (adj.) + life.

Wiktionary
wildlife

n. 1 animal, plants, and fungus, not normally domesticated, variously excluding some or all of plants, fungi, fish, insects and other invertebrates, and microscopic plants and animals. 2 (rfv-sense) Wild animals, excluding fish. 3 (rfv-sense) Wild animals. 4 (context slang English) Members of a college fraternity

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WordNet
wildlife

n. all living things (except people) that are undomesticated; "chemicals could kill all the wildlife"

Wikipedia
Wildlife

Wildlife traditionally refers to un domesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi, and other organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, and other areas including the most developed urban sites, all have distinct forms of wildlife. While the term in popular culture usually refers to animals that are untouched by human factors, most scientists agree that much wildlife is affected by human activities.

Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social, and moral sense. Some animals, however, have adapted to suburban environments. This includes such animals as domesticated cats, dogs, mice, and gerbils. Some religions declare certain animals to be sacred, and in modern times concern for the natural environment has provoked activists to protest against the exploitation of wildlife for human benefit or entertainment.

The global wildlife population has decreased by 52 percent between 1970 and 2014, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund.

Wildlife (disambiguation)

Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals, and other organisms.

Wildlife or Wild Life may also refer to:

Wildlife (Mott the Hoople album)

Wildlife is the third studio album by the British band Mott the Hoople.

The album was originally released in 1971; in the UK by Island Records (catalogue number ILPS 9144) and in the US by Atlantic Records (cat. no. SD 8384). It was subsequently re-released by Angel Air in 2003 SJPCD159.

It reached No. 44 in the UK Albums Chart in April 1971.

Wildlife (Anthony Phillips and Joji Hirota album)

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Wildlife is the second collaboration between Anthony Phillips and Joji Hirota. The album is culled from recordings made between 1994 and 2000 when Anthony and Joji collaborated on a number of soundtracks for wildlife television programmes in the British Survival series. In addition, Anthony also wrote and recorded the music for a programme in the BBC series Natural World.

Wildlife features selections from the music for the programmes Creatures of the Magic Water (tracks 1-6), Secrets of the Amazon (tracks 7-11), Jaguar: Eater of Souls (tracks 12-13), Serengeti Jigsaw (tracks 14-15), Web of the Spider Monkey (track 16), Dungeons & Dragons (tracks 17-22), Secrets of a Norfolk Wood (tracks 23-25), Bears of the Russian Front (tracks 26-30), Gremlins: Faces in the Forest (track 31), Jurassic Shark (tracks 32-38), and Midway - Island of Life (tracks 39-45).

All programmes represented come from the Survival series except "Midway - Island of Life" which comes from Natural World.

Several of the Survival programmes were filmed by the late Nick Gordon and the sleeve notes for the album include Ant's specially written tribute to Nick.

Wildlife was released in Japan by Disk Union on Arcangelo Records and by Voiceprint Records for the Rest of the World. The Japanese release was in a limited edition mini-vinyl sleeve.

Wildlife (The Crash album)

Wildlife is the second studio album by Finnish Britpop band The Crash, released in 2001.

Wildlife (Girlschool EP)

Wildlife is an EP produced by British heavy metal band, Girlschool and published only in Europe. It was released in 1982 by Bronze Records as a launch for the album Screaming Blue Murder. During the recording sessions for the album, bassist and singer Enid Williams left the band and this EP is the last production made by the original formation. The songs "Don't Call It Love" and "Wildlife" were recorded again for the album with new bass player Ghislaine 'Gil' Weston and new vocal tracks. The EP was also available in a red vinyl edition.

Wildlife (band)

Wildlife are a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2005. The band is currently based in Toronto. The band's debut LP Strike Hard, Young Diamond was favourably received by both Exclaim! and Chart.

Wildlife (Headlights album)

Wildlife is the third full-length studio album by the indie rock band Headlights. It was released by the Polyvinyl Record Co. on October 6, 2009.

Wildlife (Joe Morris album)

Wildlife is an album by American jazz musician Joe Morris, which was recorded in 2008 and released on the AUM Fidelity label. It was the debut recording by a new group featuring saxophonist Petr Cancura and drummer Luther Gray. Morris plays bass instead of guitar.

Wildlife (La Dispute album)

Wildlife is the second studio album by American post-hardcore band La Dispute, released October 4, 2011, on independent label No Sleep Records. Recording sessions for the album took place primarily at StadiumRed in New York in April 2011. The band members took control of all of the production duties alongside the album's recording engineers, Andrew Everding and Joseph Pedulla. Wildlife was their last release on No Sleep Records before forming their own record label, Better Living.

Noted by music writers for its varied elements, Wildlife incorporates musical components from La Dispute's previous releases, particularly Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair and Here, Hear III., and genres such as screamo, progressive rock and post-rock. The album features lyrical themes that – while making several references to the band's home town of Grand Rapids – focus on personal loss, anger, and despair and, in the vision of the band, is a collection of unpublished "short stories" from a hypothetical author, complete with the author’s notes and sectioned thematically by the use of four monologues.

The album debuted at number 135 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 3,140 copies in its first week. It spent one week on the chart and charted only in the United States. Prior to its release, Wildlife was promoted with two singles, "Harder Harmonies" and "The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit". The album was well received by critics, who mainly praised its conceptual lyrics and more melodic approach to the band's style.

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Usage examples of "wildlife".

Hans talks about the areology of the volcano, and he and Stephan discuss the genetic engineering that makes the wildlife around them possible.

The heavy rhythm of drums and berimbau coming from the direction of the river fused with the chattering wildlife in the trees.

Irish bogs also provided a wildlife habitat unique in all of Europe, and there was increasing pressure from the EU to consider the environmental consequences of turf-cutting.

He took it as a measure of how the Cades valued wildlife far more than McCrays.

We are wildlife rehabilitators specializing in raptors and the corvidae, and apprentice falconers.

African wildlife, which is to say anything that was living here before the deads leased this tract from the Masai, is protected by government decree.

Most of it goes to the same people every year, continuing grants: the Blackbury Jambs Library, the wildlife sanctuary, the Parr Home.

I reformulated some of the outtakes and made a second segment for the wildlife sites.

Take the sock off and quickly close up the box and get the victim to a rehabber, a local game warden or Fish and Wildlife official, or a vet that treats injured Wildlife.

If you want to get into rehab, contact Fish and Wildlife for other rehabbers who are generally quite happy to help you get started.

Both these assessors were Shona: one was an expert on wildlife conservation, and the other a senior magistrate.

The benefits have been felt from the Panhandle to the Keys, wherever green space and wildlife habitat have been spared from destruction.

McGuire Nuclear Power Plant, built to supplement the older hydroelectric plant, sits practically next to the General Davidson monument and the Cowans Ford Wildlife Refuge, a 2,250-acre nature preserve.

Thanks to you, and to the studies of coyotes and white-tailed deer carried forward by your fellow wildlife biologists, we have a complete and detailed picture of the top two predators for this recovering habitat, together with their most important large prey species, over the past four years.

While there were some dangers following them down into the house, most notably lasers guided by sensors whose sole purpose was to zap any wildlife that might find similar openings inside, they tended to be of a standard sort for which electronic countermeasures were already in the ferrets along with routines to deploy them.