Sentences with phrase «conservancy says»

Read the original report: Carbon Scam: Noel Kempff Climate Action Project and the Push for Sub-national Forest Offsets Nature Conservancy Says It's Not That Simple... By the way, the Nature Conservancy has a rather different take on the NKCAP.

A new report from the World Resources Institute and the Nature Conservancy says governments around the world have committed to reviving nearly 400 million acres of wildernessâ $ Â — â $ an area larger than South Africa.

Sins of Omission It's a shame Mullins refers to ABC («It's impossible to know exactly how many birds are killed each year by cats in the U.S., but the American Bird Conservancy says 500 million is a conservative estimate.»)

As well as the «monster» cockroach, the scientists reported a new «micro-crab», a pure - white 6.5cm - long millipede, two new species of begonia, two new species of snail and several new types of fish, the conservancy said.

«Michael Hutchins of the American Bird Conservancy said he believes the five - year permit for the California wind farm is reasonable...»

«Too often landscapes and forests are the forgotten part of the climate discussion,» Justin Adams of the Nature Conservancy said.

Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy said Thursday that Sudan was struggling despite 24 - hour care by veterinarians.

Sudan appeared to recover well from an infection that developed on his back right leg at the end of 2017 but another, deeper infection was recently discovered in the same area, the conservancy said.

«We are very concerned about him — he's extremely old for a rhino and we do not want him to suffer unnecessarily,» the conservancy said in a statement.

Ol Pejeta Conservancy said Sudan had spent two weeks in late February and early March lying down in his pen due to discomfort from a deep wound on his right hind leg.

Not exact matches

Grant Park Conservancy President Bob O'Neill said Thursday that museum officials had told him they hope to release new renderings of the largely underground structure as early as Friday, showing a «reduction in profile.»

Bob O'Neil, president of the Grant Park Conservancy, said even thought it's unfinished, the fountain's new landscaping and appearance is an improvement from years past.

The plan calls for a four - story Children's Museum to be built at the site of the current fieldhouse off Randolph Street, said Grant Park Conservancy President Bob O'Neill.

The conservancy's goal, Gordon said, is to live up to the city's motto — Urbs in Horto, or City in a Garden — and the legacies of visionary city planners such as Daniel Burnham, who in 1909 called for an acre of parkland for every 100 people in Chicago.

On Thursday, friends of the conservancy awarded their first Golden Rabbit Award to conservancy board member Mary Zavett for her «hundreds of hours» of work on behalf of Grant Park, council President Bob O'Neill said.

Bob O'Neill, president of the Grant Park Conservancy, said part of the money went to Hutchinson Field, site of the Obama rally.

«If you look at Grant Park, in the»80s and early»90s it was written off for dead,» said Bob O'Neill, president of the Grant Park Conservancy and Advisory Council, which has teamed up with the Chicago Park District on the project.

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

«We applaud Borough President Katz for celebrating the wealth of Queens landmarks and the anniversary of the City's landmarks law,» said New York Landmarks Conservancy President PEG BREEN.

«A project by project type of approach where we have to amend the constitution each time for Catskill and Adirondack communities wasn't efficient and it was» t working,» said Amanda Lefton of the Nature Conservancy.

The town board heard from Woodstock Land Conservancy board chairman Kevin Smith, who said that the organization was partnering with the Riverkeeper organization in utilizing engineering resources and that «we have to keep our eyes on the prize here...» as they seek to become involved in the process.

The city Parks Department said the tree was supposed to be maintained by the Central Park Conservancy.

Walsh, in the budget proposal, said the city could cut spending in areas such as social security, medical insurance, parks conservancy, the department of public works and city employee, police and fire retirement systems.

«When Central Park was in a state of disrepair and neglect, a new Central Park Conservancy was founded in 1980, and today, because they were smart about putting people with real fundraising ability and park expertise, this conservancy pays 85 percent of the budget that's raised independently of city funding,» StrConservancy was founded in 1980, and today, because they were smart about putting people with real fundraising ability and park expertise, this conservancy pays 85 percent of the budget that's raised independently of city funding,» Strconservancy pays 85 percent of the budget that's raised independently of city funding,» Stringer said.

«This was one of the greatest missed conservation opportunities in the budget this year, and we ask that legislative leaders get behind the proposal for next year's budget,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, policy director for the Nature Conservancy in New York, which lobbied heavily for the bill.

Sam Hoyt, regional president for Empire State Development, said the conservancy's proposal would result in major congestion.

One of the benefits of the project would be its role in attracting more people to South Buffalo, said Thomas Herrera - Mishler, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy president and CEO.

In addition, Mr. Levy, who described Mr. Amper as a «gadfly» who doesn't represent all environmentalists, said the bill was coauthored by environmental groups Citizen's Campaign for the Environment and The Nature Conservancy.

«Today was a historic day for New York's environment,» said Stuart Gruskin, chief conservation and external affairs officer for The Nature Conservancy in New York.

«The Town of Willsboro is proud to be a partner with the Nature Conservancy in developing and managing the Boquet River Nature Preserve,» said Town Supervisor Shaun Gillilland.

The company crafted what was, at the time, an innovative response, says Tricia Martin, the Nature Conservancy's Central Florida conservation director: «Instead of doing piecemeal mitigation, which tended to produce tiny parcels within a development, they decided to do a larger project off - site.»

«The aspirational end point would be some kind of independent certification system,» says David Harrison, a senior adviser at the Nature Conservancy based in Salem, Oregon, who worked on the protocol.

Listing an area helps governments and NGOs preserve it, says Juan Bezaury - Creel at the Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia.

«The hogs used to be the scourge of south - west Florida, because they could do so much damage,» says Greg Knecht of the Nature Conservancy in Tallahassee, Florida.

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

The Nature Conservancy found a perfect opportunity in Miami - Dade County in South Florida, said Kathy McLeod, director of global risk reduction and resilience at the environmental organization.

«They could own as much as three times the kilowatts as they could ever get out of the little dam and keep all the fish,» says lawyer David Harrison, a senior advisor to the Conservancy's Global Freshwater Program.

«He mowed the lawn five times,» says Mary Gleason, a biologist with The Nature Conservancy, an international conservation organisation.

«Any biofuel that causes land clearing is likely to increase global warming,» says ecologist Joseph Fargione of The Nature Conservancy, lead author of the second study.

«Alaska really is both the poster child for the impact of climate change and a warning for the dramatic changes that are coming to the rest of the United States and the planet,» said Whit Sheard, director of the Ocean Conservancy's International Arctic Program.

«This is only the first win,» says Kelley R. Tucker of the Washington - based American Bird Conservancy, which spearheaded a year - long campaign to derail Pirate.

Duncan Marsh, director of the international climate program at the Nature Conservancy, said both leaders» speeches were made not only to the world leaders assembled at the U.N. conference but also to their home audiences.

Kris Johnson, a scientist with The Nature Conservancy and co-author of the study, said: «By knowing those places most at risk from floods, we could avoid development in these areas.

All things considered, the NOAA budget released today is «decently healthy,» says Jeff Watters, director of government relations at the Ocean Conservancy in Washington, D.C. Even some areas that weren't highly funded — for example, ocean acidification research — still received a slight boost over the previous fiscal year.

In fact, Carson may have underestimated the impact of DDT on birds, says Michael Fry, an avian toxicologist and director of the American Bird Conservancy's pesticides and birds program.

Even here,» he says, of properties The Conservancy owns in the Mojave Desert, «we may have an «extinct» vole» that is actually just missing.

Perhaps they would have come out anyway, says Mary Gleason, a biologist with The Nature Conservancy, or perhaps trawling somehow upped their attraction to the region.

To Mark Tercek, president of the non-profit Nature Conservancy, the silver lining in the funding crisis for green groups is that it forces them to operate more efficiently and focus on core priorities: «Non-profits... have to be smart about adjusting to a tougher economic environment, including setting priorities,» he says.

Scott Highleyman, an official at the Ocean Conservancy who also served on the U.S. delegation, said scientists have little knowledge of what kind of fish are in the region now and whether commercial stocks will migrate north as the water warms.

The findings will be used in part by the Nature Conservancy to help direct federal funding toward ecosystem restoration and conservation projects that protect the most people and property, Arkema said.