Sentences with phrase «conservation scientists need»

Conservation scientists need to collaborate with space agencies, such as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodiversity declines around the world.

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William Baya, Director of the Sabah Wildlife Department adds, «We need more joint conservation efforts with the oil palm and forestry sector and better collaboration of scientists and conservationists with local authorities to protect the diversity of carnivores in the remaining rainforests of Borneo.»

«The goal of the BCS was to understand better the distribution and conservation needs of Bornean cats and small carnivores and subsequently, to enable targeted conservation efforts to those carnivores which are most threatened,» said Dr. Andreas Wilting, scientist at the IZW and lead editor of this supplement.

Led by scientists from Chile's Universidad Andres Bello (UNAB), NGO Ranita de Darwin, and international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London), working alongside the University of Zurich, this new revelation highlights a need for urgent conservation action.

Chief scientist Elliott Norse of the Marine Conservation Institute in Seattle says the recent findings show decision makers that «they need to find ways to make fishing less harmful environmentally.»

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

«This paper, by addressing the issue for all mammals, reminds us that we also need to think about the less charismatic species, and the less high - profile ones,» says E. J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation scientist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

«It's a bitter irony that western conservation scientists who are working on providing the information needed to protect tropical forests have a much greater personal carbon footprint than almost anyone they will meet abroad,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.

The scientists need approval from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation before going forward.

Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature does not consider the spotted, spinner, and bottlenose dolphins endangered, the scientists say the organization's classifications don't reflect what is happening to these insular populations — which, they say, urgently need monitoring and management.

An international team of more than 100 scientists, policy makers and community representatives, led by international conservation charity the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), today published a new report outlining the vital steps needed to save the Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) from extinction.

Conservation scientists say there needs to be a new approach to protecting offshore marine reserves.

For the members of Bodhi Surf School, that feeling came to us when we learned about Wallace J. Nichols, a marine scientist and conservation activist, who uses science to prove why we as humans need the ocean and, consequently, why we should protect it.

The scientists also point out that because reefs overlap national boarders, that networking is important among politicians as well — governments need to talk with each other and get in sync with conservation efforts to ensure reefs» survival and strong fish populations.

As the lions hunt for suitable habitat away from humans, habitat that is increasingly rare, scientists are able to watch and see what areas are in need of conservation focus.