Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Tiere in einem Gebiet wieder heimisch machen
English translation:
reintroduce animals into an area / repopulate an area with animals
German term
United States
Prose, poetry, biographies, subtitles
Native in: English 
, German
Works in: German to English, English to German, Norwegian to English, and 1 more.
Tiere wieder heimisch machen
Know what it means, but how to best phrase it? Resettlement is not the right word here, is it?
| 4 +8 | reintroduce into an area / repopulate an area with |
Nicole Schnell
|
| 4 +3 | reintroduce / reintroduction |
Andrea Winzer
|
| 4 | rehabilitate |
David Hollywood
|
| 4 -1 | resettle animals |
Robert Feuerlein
|
Apr 13, 2008 15:55: Eva Finkemeier changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/800803">Eva Finkemeier's</a> old entry - "Tiere wieder heimisch machen"" to ""reintroduce into an area / repopulate an area with ""
Apr 24, 2008 09:09: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Science"
Apr 24, 2008 09:10: Steffen Walter changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/800803">Eva Finkemeier's</a> old entry - "Tiere wieder heimisch machen"" to ""reintroduce into an area / repopulate an area with ""
Apr 24, 2008 09:11: Steffen Walter changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/34047">Steffen Walter's</a> old entry - "Tiere wieder heimisch machen"" to ""reintroduce animals into an area / repopulate an area with animals""
Proposed translations
United States
Award winning Advertising/Marketing
Native in: German 
Works in: English to German, German to English
reintroduce into an area / repopulate an area with
"In his quest, Mr. Thiele, 33, has joined a loose-knit national movement to repopulate state and national parks in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Montana and Wyoming with North America's once top predator. In the movement's latest and perhaps largest victory, the Department of Interior agreed recently to reintroduce 30 wolves into Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho over the next year."
| agree |
David Hollywood
: and perfect too :)
4 mins
|
|
Thanks, David! :-)
|
|
| agree |
Trudy Peters
1 hr
|
|
Thanks, Trudy!
|
|
| agree |
Edith Kelly
4 hrs
|
|
Thanks, Edith!
|
|
| agree |
milinad
4 hrs
|
|
Thanks, milinad!
|
|
| agree |
Barbara Wiebking
: repopulate
5 hrs
|
|
Thanks, kriddl!
|
|
| agree |
Armorel Young
: reintroduce gets my vote
7 hrs
|
|
Thanks, Armorel!
|
|
| agree |
Maureen Millington-Brodie
: reintroduce
8 hrs
|
|
Thanks, mbrodie!
|
|
| agree |
John Speese
: Yes, reintroduce.
11 hrs
|
|
Thanks, John!
|
United States
Top Quality: Fast, reliable & certified
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, Latin to German, and 1 more.
reintroduce / reintroduction
The process of introducing a plant or animal back into it’s native habitat.
www.fws.gov/Endangered/kids/pdf/glossary.pdf
http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/Change/reintroduction.htm
oder auch re-establishment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reintroduction
| agree |
David Hollywood
: perfect :)
1 min
|
|
Thank you, David!
|
|
| agree |
Trudy Peters
1 hr
|
|
Danke, Trudy!
|
|
| agree |
milinad
4 hrs
|
|
Danke, Milinad!
|
|
| neutral |
David Moore (X)
: Please....."IT'S" does not mean "ITS"
7 hrs
|
|
Sorry, just copied it from the webpage.
|
Diligent
Native in: German , Spanish
Works in: Spanish to German, English to German, German to English, and 3 more.
resettle animals
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 14 mins (2008-04-13 01:49:15 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
Does resettlement help or hinder conservation?
Do villages in forests threaten biodiversity? Can species survive only where there’s a fence keeping them in and people out? CIFOR’s Anne Marie Tiani and Chimere Diaw tackle these perennially debated issues in a study of Korup National Park in Cameroon......
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Publications/Corporate/NewsOnline...
Subsequently a wildlife rescue operation known as Operação Curupira was initiated to capture, triage and resettle animals forced out of their natural ...
The idea of deliberately resettling animals and plants in new habitats goes against the rules of species protection. Biologists normally shudder at the ...
www.dams.org/kbase/studies/br/br_exec.htm - 87k
www.getsustainable.net/blogfiles/ 2008/02/consumption-other-side-of.html - 51k -
| disagree |
Joachim Sieg (X)
: Wrong way. "wieder heimisch machen" means getting the species back into its natural habitat; "resettling" means getting them from one place to another, not necessarily from non-natural into natural, but mostly from natural into new habitat. (see examples)
3 hrs
|
|
Thank you, Joachim. Always learning....
|
worked for int. orgs (IMF, OAS, IDB)
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, German to English
Discussion