Sentences with phrase «many conservation groups»

MillerCoors is giving out about $ 700,000 to landowners in the Trinity River Basin that use strategies that reduce erosion and runoff, such as restoring native plants and rotating cattle grazing, according to Trinity Waters, a non-profit conservation group.

A record 1,305 rhinos were killed illegally in Africa last year, most of them in South Africa, according to conservation groups.

The tech tycoon is also a generous philanthropist through partnerships with wildlife conservation groups and the

Sept. 26, 2012: A coalition of conservation groups files suit in Federal Court to force Ottawa to protect endangered and threatened species along the route of the proposed pipeline, including Pacific humpback whales.

Future initiatives for conservation mainly depend on the proper co-ordination of scientists, governments, conservation groups and the media, especially when corruption is close by.

Few conservation groups reacted to Interior's announcement Tuesday, although several had called the unprecedented lease sale «a terrible idea» when Zinke first discussed it this spring.

ST. PETERSBURG — Tampa Bay Watch, the conservation group based in Tierra Verde, will operate an outpost at the new Pier.In a unanimous vote, City Council members voted Thursday to give the nonprofit organization a five - year lease to offer marine edu...

Conservation groups celebrated news this week that Enbridge Inc. shelved a pipeline expansion in Ontario — and attention has now shifted to a project still in the works for British Columbia.

WINNIPEG — Two First Nations and two conservation groups are waiting to hear the fate of eight islands on Lake Winnipegosis.

Conservation groups across the country are applauding a major move by the Trudeau government to invest $ 1.3 billion over five years to help protect the environment.

The balance of nature, Type II, although commonly stated in a metaphor of two terms, obviously involves many terms such as animals, waste, water, oxygen, algae, industries, governments, conservation groups, etc..

Afognak is part of a growing movement of land trusts, nonprofit conservation groups and foundations that use carbon verification to support the protection of high - value ecosystems.

This is how Miguel Angel Figueroa, the founder of the Huahuatenango - based conservation group ASOCUCH describes himself.

The amount of information now available about the population ecology of kangaroos and their abundance has shifted the focus of opposition by animal rights groups and some conservation groups instead upon animal welfare issues (see Chapter 9).

Supported by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Created by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

The principles were designed to provide common ground for conservation groups to work with other environmental movements and coffee businesses.

Animals Australia is joining tireless advocates Colin Riddell and Bob Irwin in a Coalition of 28 animal welfare and conservation groups calling on the Federal Government to ban the hunting of all endangered and vulnerable native species.

He is Vic Yannacone (right), fiery attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, the nation's most militant conservation group, and he hauls into court those who wantonly defile our habitat

But perhaps my proudest moment was being commissioned to make birds for a Dutch Godwit conservation group.

Through the leadership and assistance we offer other conservation groups, we affect the conservation of more land than we ever even touch.

OLYMPIA FIELDS — After coveting the property for more than two decades, the Olympia Fields Park District has added 25 acres of forest and wetland to its parks inventory, thanks to the efforts of a non-profit conservation group and a $ 157,500 state grant.

Officials with the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco - based, non-profit conservation group, announced they have bought a half - acre lot in the 2700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, across the street from Haas Park.

The soccer pitch opened in 2008, with the Protect Our Parks conservation group protesting that taxpayer money was being used for that purpose.

Mass Audubon President Gary Clayton said, «This designation enhances Mass Audubon's reputation as a model for responsible land conservation and stewardship, not only in how we approach our own projects, but as a willing partner with other conservation groups and government agencies.»

Mass Audubon's Bird Conservation team has developed an informative document that outlines best management practices for nesting grassland birds for fields owned by municipalities, land trusts, private landowners, and conservation groups.

A proposal by Cuomo to construct «glamping» — glamorous camping — facilities in the middle of the Adirondack Forest Preserve has drawn fire from conservation groups, which are mobilizing to fight the proposal if it is approved.

Last week, several clean energy and conservation groups dropped off thousands of signed petitions to urge Cuomo to set an aggressive goal.

Experts from a wildlife conservation group say a dead whale that washed up on a New York beach was likely hit by a boat.

The British government has sought to dampen down concern from conservation group WWF that «water wars» are a growing threat to global security.

Outdoor conservation groups face an uphill fight in convincing state lawmakers that hunting curriculums should be offered in high schools.

The state was sued Monday by two conservation groups over plans to create a new, 22 - mile - long snowmobile trail in the heart of the central Adirondacks.

Governor Cuomo announced earlier this year an unprecedented agreement among 53 New York State agencies, municipal governments, property owners, lake associations, conservation groups, sporting groups and businesses to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species in the Adirondack region.

said Andy Bicking, director of public policy and special projects for Scenic Hudson, a Hudson Valley conservation group.

The preservation of Plum Island will depend in large part on support from community members who oppose the federal government's plans to sell it to the highest bidder, said Chris Cryder, special projects coordinator of the bi-coastal conservation group Save the Sound.

One conservation group is taking credit for the action after threatening a lawsuit if such plans were not put in place.

Municipalities and conservation groups had asked the governor to remove the proposed cap and PILOT from the Executive Budget.

Regional representatives, municipalities and conservation groups say it would be a bad idea to shift to a PILOT, or Payment in Lieu of Taxes, system.

Now the Citizen Advisory Panels for the Adirondack and Catskill parks, conservation groups and local governments have formed the «Forever Taxable» Coalition to oppose the plan.

Conservation groups and hunting and fishing groups balked at the proposal.

Governments should stop imposing conservation rules on communities and instead involve them in discussions, giving them power over how wildlife protection is carried out on their lands, says Francine Madden of the conservation group Human - Wildlife Conflict Collaboration.

An infusion of fresh genes from imported Texan pumas in the 1990s helped, and conservation groups continue to add protected land to the panther's preferred territory.

TNC and other conservation groups now believe that, with so many people living in the world's remaining forests, helping communities sustainably and profitably use them is key to conservation.

-- Peggy Marshall, Boise, Idaho This past March, a coalition of 10 conservation groups finally reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Interior regarding gray wolf recovery and management in the Northern Rockies.

Conservation groups have a plan.»

A coalition of U.S. and Mexican conservation groups, Raise the River, is raising money to purchase and lease the additional water rights required to ensure base flow in the future.

Conservation groups are expected to support the measure.

The trend has raised alarm bells among conservation groups and global warming advocates, who have banded together to press the Indonesian government toward reforms.

Conservation groups allege that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of Energy failed to consider the spirit of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and also violated the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

Conservation groups can also pay police to perform aerial surveys of areas vulnerable to logging, but they are too expensive to do frequently.