Sentences with phrase «conservation research said»
Dr. Barbara Durrant, Director of Reproductive Physiology at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research said, «Normal semen parameters for Rafetus are unknown as this was the first attempt to collect and examine sperm from this species.
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National Geographic, however, says the revenue funds nonprofit «conservation, exploration, research, and education» efforts.
«These practices represent the state of the art for conservation,» says Bryan Finegan, a forest ecologist at CATIE, the international research institute in Costa Rica that led the study.
«After spending the last two years tagging Nassau grouper in The Bahamas during their full moon aggregations, we documented the likely extirpation of an important spawning aggregation at High Cay, a small island off the east coast of Andros in The Bahamas, which had most likely existed for decades,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.
«We are elated to have another accomplished and passionate scientist join Shedd's conservation research team to help expand our commitment to understanding and protecting marine ecosystems,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.
«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.
Mukasa said the state Department of Environmental Conservation and other government entities have ignored his research.
The APA and Department of Environmental Conservation have said they're researching their role in the matter.
Looking further ahead, Governor Cuomo said he has directed the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Energy Research and Development Authority to «determine the most rapid, cost - effective, and responsible pathway to reach 100 percent renewable energy statewide.»
For Jeremy Yoder, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, his metascience research about LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans *, queer, or asexual) scientists» experiences was «the intersection of personal interest and serendipity,» he says.
The research seeks to understand when and where the works were cast, said Francesca Casadio, the Art Institute of Chicago's executive director of conservation and science and co-director of NU - ACCESS.
«The research fills an important gap in our understanding of the vulnerability of tropical river - forest systems to changes in climate and land cover,» said the project's leader, Leandro Castello, assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.
«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.
«This meeting encouraged us to create the Jaguar Conservation Alliance in Brazil, a multi-institutional initiative that aims to coordinate jaguar research and conservation efforts in the Amazon, and to ensure that our collective efforts amount to more than just the sum of their parts,» RConservation Alliance in Brazil, a multi-institutional initiative that aims to coordinate jaguar research and conservation efforts in the Amazon, and to ensure that our collective efforts amount to more than just the sum of their parts,» Rconservation efforts in the Amazon, and to ensure that our collective efforts amount to more than just the sum of their parts,» Ramalho said.
«I am often asked... whether primates that innovate new skills become more popular,» said Lydia Hopper, the assistant director of the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, who was not part of this research.
«The base has a lot of acreage of pristine habitat,» says Peter Tolson, director of conservation and research at the Toledo Zoo.
Although EPRI's technology judgments are based on its extensive research capabilities, its assumptions about the future for energy conservation and wind power are more restricted than advocates of conservation and renewable power say are possible.
«We can't protect our own ecosystem if we're not protecting Cuba's,» said Fernando Bretos Trelles, director of the Ocean Foundation's Cuba Marine Research Conservation Project, which has facilitated collaborative research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment sinResearch Conservation Project, which has facilitated collaborative research between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment sinresearch between U.S. institutions and the University of Havana and the Cuban Ministry of Science Technology and Environment since 1998.
«Most people have no idea how much fresh water they're consuming,» says Brad Ridoutt, a water conservation specialist from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.
«It's a large feast table of eggs that would never have hatched,» says Glenn Gauvry, director of Ecological Research & Development Group Inc., a wildlife conservation organization based in Milton, Delaware.
Dr Martin Stevens from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus said: «As far as we know, this is the first time that research has demonstrated through the eyes of a predator how individual animals from the same population can tune their camouflage to match different backgrounds.
Wildlife Conservation Society Mozambique Country Director James Bampton said the research demonstrated just how important the protected area network in Mozambique was for protecting forests and reducing deforestation.
«We also wanted to learn more about the conservation status of these wonderful animals,» said Danny Balete, a Research Associate at the Field Museum who is based in the Philippines.
James Mead, a vertebrate paleontologist with East Tennessee State University, said more research into the evolutionary history of native plants and animals on Abaco is needed as well as conservation programs based on paleontological research that aims to restore these species.
«Due to the complexity of threats we have identified in this study, conservation efforts in Michigan should prioritize both protecting the highly suitable mussel habitats that are left, and identifying any additional populations in under - sampled areas of the state,» said Wesley Daniel, a former research associate in Infante's Aquatic Landscape Ecology Lab, and now Cherokee Nation Technologies contractor for U.S. Geological Survey in Gainesville, FL..
Schmidt, research group leader at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich and academic associate for the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, says, «Our mark - and - recapture data shows that only 13 percent of the infected salamanders survive over a 10 - day period.»
«If people are going to keep lemurs as pets, then more outreach, regulation and enforcement is needed to ensure healthier captivity for the lemurs, especially in the big cities,» said Reuter, a research fellow at Conservation International while completing her Temple doctoral dissertation.
«These are two of the most fragmented tropical biodiversity hotspots, so they provide vital examples of what can be achieved to prevent extinctions globally,» said lead author William Newmark, research curator and conservation biologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah.
«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Large - scale conservation genetics studies on wild jaguars spanning across several range countries assessing these threats are rare and suffer from low sample sizes for this region,» said Claudia Wultsch, the lead author of the paper, a scientist in the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, and a conservation research fellow at Panthera.
In all, scientists captured 14 new pythons during 33 tracking periods, said Smith, who conducts research under the supervision of assistant professor Christina Romagosa, a faculty member in wildlife ecology and conservation.
Co-author Georgina M. Mace of the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, UCL, said: «The discussion between conservation and synthetic biology is a necessary one.
All whooping cranes alive today are the descendants * of only 16 cranes alive in the 1930s, says Tian Everest, conservation research program coordinator at the zoo.
«Although the results of this study cause us a great deal of concern» said Ekwoge Abwe, coauthor of the study and manager of San Diego Zoo Global's Ebo Forest Research Project, «we are encouraged that it highlights the importance of the proposed Ebo National Park where we have been conducting a long - term and ongoing research and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect themResearch Project, «we are encouraged that it highlights the importance of the proposed Ebo National Park where we have been conducting a long - term and ongoing research and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect themresearch and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect them.»
George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research, said the wide - ranging study is good news for shark conservation.
Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.
Andrew Dobson, an ecologist at Princeton University who was not involved in the study, says the research highlights the need to discuss how we allocate conservation funding.
«It's good to know concrete details about the variation of these gorilla populations,» says Oliver Ryder, a geneticist at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research in California who was not involved with the rResearch in California who was not involved with the researchresearch.
«We were able to engage in this effort due to the use of new technologies that allow us to observe these newly reintroduced groups without disturbing them,» said James Sheppard, a conservation biologist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservaticonservation biologist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for ConservationConservation Research.
Dr Jason Chapman, Co-author at Rothamsted Research, said: «This study utilises large amounts of long - running data collected by volunteers through schemes such as the Rothamsted Insect Survey, run by Rothamsted Research, and the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by Butterfly Conservation.
Poaching is driving these iconic animals toward extinction, said Wasser, a UW research professor of biology who directs the UW Center for Conservation Biology.
«Knowing, scientifically, that people who have been trained to identify individual bears can do so with a reasonable expectation of accuracy helps us to know that the work we are doing to learn about these bears is based on good science, not just personal opinion» said Russ Van Horn, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a research scientist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Rresearch scientist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation ResearchResearch.
«This type of collaborative research focused on specific management and conservation objectives provides important information for resource managers and policy decision - makers who manage public resources,» said Eric Forsman, a coauthor on the study at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research research focused on specific management and conservation objectives provides important information for resource managers and policy decision - makers who manage public resources,» said Eric Forsman, a coauthor on the study at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Research Station.
«Few people can see the really big picture, that human activities are resulting in the demise of tropical forests around the world and this has serious consequences,» said Anthony Rylands, deputy chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and senior research scientist at Conservation International.
Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.
«The Department of Wildlife Conservation [DWC] has been transferring elephants for many years,» says Prithiviraj Fernando, a wildlife biologist at the Centre for Conservation and Research in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, and the lead author of the new study.
«It will be a race,» says Dirk Schmeller, a conservation biologist with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.
The NOAA portion of the prize is meant to spur the development of specific technologies that can help detect «sources of pollution, enable rapid response to leaks and spills, identify hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, as well as track marine life for scientific research and conservation efforts,» Richard Spinrad, chief scientist at NOAA, said in a statement.
UQ Associate Professor Richard Fuller said the research provided a better understanding of climate change impacts on Antarctic biodiversity and plan conservation actions.