Sentences with phrase «conservation project run»

One of these is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project run by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, which collected healthy frogs before the outbreak in the hopes of releasing them back into the wild.

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A proposed «landfill tax» in Wales could help boost biodiversity projects run by people who shoot, according to the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

Ten years later, after a stint teaching high school in the South Bronx, she returned to the country with her then - husband, biologist Michael Fay, to run a small conservation project for the World Wildlife Fund in the newly established Dzanga - Ndoki National Park.

In a three - year project run jointly by the Getty Conservation Institute in Santa Monica, California, and the government of Tanzania, the site will be uncovered, studied and treated to prevent further damage before reburial.

The release is part of a project that has been ongoing since 2007, formerly run by Conservation International (CI), and now by WCS in collaboration with the FiA and TSA.

It undertakes practical conservation projects, surveys and scientific studies, conducts annual monitoring of seabird populations, rescues wildlife in trouble, publishes guides and information on many aspects of the Falkland Islands environment, and involves islanders of all ages in its activities, including running a WATCH group for children.

Even so, «the amount of killing that goes on is often very surprising to people,» said Dickman, who runs a Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) project funded by the Big Cats Initiative of the National Geographic Society, which owns National Geographic News.

Visit the wildlife research centre to learn about the elephant and lion collaring and conservation projects the lodge runs, jump on a local canoe down the Mafui creek at the lodge or take one of four nature trails around the lodge, all complimentary to guests.

If you do get the chance to go, one of the locals, DarJohn, who works at Lozmen Reza runs a WWF turtle conservation project.

UK, Isle of Man and Alderney About Blog The Wildlife Trusts manages thousands of nature reserves and run marine conservation projects around our coasts.

Update, Jan. 27, 9:40 p.m. Todd Steiner, executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network, which has run conservation projects in Costa Rica for nearly 20 years, issued this statement:

Here's a «Your Dot» contribution from Rabinowitz, who heads Panthera, which — together with the Wildlife Conservation Society — has been running a project called Tigers Forever, focused on doubling tiger populations from 2006 to 2016 in critical spots.

The trap was set up by workers with the Wildlife Conservation Society, the people who run the Bronx Zoo and undertake conservation projects arounConservation Society, the people who run the Bronx Zoo and undertake conservation projects arounconservation projects around the world.

It also runs a turtle conservation project that removes delicate eggs from the beach and places them in a protected area for safe hatching.

The Union of Environmental Journalists and Green Scenery, both forum members, are running a conservation project with a media component.

When they discovered the collection of run - down garages in the Kew Conservation Area, they saw a potential building project.