Sentences with phrase «union for nature conservation»

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Also, in 2013, she created the first index that monitors gender equality and women's empowerment in the environmental arena, the Environment and Gender Index (EGI) for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature reported that in 1985 there were 151,000 - 163,000 giraffes but by 2015 that number had dropped down to 97,562.

June 4, 2013 — The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to be a unique «living fossil,» without close relatives among other living frogs.

In 1999, a joint workshop in Vignola, Italy, organized by The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and IFOAM together with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), was held to exchange ideas and information on organic agriculture and biodiversity.

Long - tailed duck is listed as vulnerable to global extinction by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and relies heavily on Massachusetts» coast for its overwintering habitat.

The species was assessed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2009 after more than two decades of population studies indicated that its numbers had plummeted by more than 99 percent over three generations.

Not everyone was thrilled, as thresher sharks — although legal to catch — are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

They did so using the existing literature and information from two large databases: the Living Planet Index and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.

«There's a big question around whether those are truly wild free ranging herds, or whether there is so much management that's happening around them that they are no longer really wild; they're just like ranched cattle,» says Craig Hilton - Taylor, head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List Unit in Cambridge, UK.

The lesser flamingo is now categorized as «near threatened» by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Now, an international research team under the leadership of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission, has published a roadmap for more targeted conservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles BulletinConservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission, has published a roadmap for more targeted conservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles Bulletinconservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The team assessed 61 species of fish according to the criteria used by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Gland, Switzerland, to produce its Red List of endangered species.

TRAFFIC is the wildlife trade - monitoring programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature and the World Conservation Union and aims to help ensure that wildlife trade is at sustainable levels.

In conservation, captive breeding has been recommended by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessors for 2199 species to reduce the threat ofconservation, captive breeding has been recommended by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessors for 2199 species to reduce the threat ofConservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessors for 2199 species to reduce the threat of extinction.

Warmer colors indicate a greater number of birds classified as vulnerable or worse by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

These insults have whittled their population down 90 percent of its level from 45 years ago and put the species on the critically endangered list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

«The decline in Madagascan amphibians is not just a concern for herpetologists and frog researchers,» says Dr Franco Andreone from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), who is one of the study authors.

In 1964, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) began tracking the conservation status of species on its «Red Conservation of Nature (IUCN) began tracking the conservation status of species on its «Red conservation status of species on its «Red List.»

Manta rays are classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and are present at this site in surprisingly large numbers.

The study's results currently are used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservaConservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservationconservation status.

Nautiluses have not yet been assessed for the Red List, the database of threatened and not - so - threatened species maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

International groups are working to raise the total to 10 per cent by 2020, while delegates to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's 2016 World Conservation Congress agreed that at least 30 per cent should be protected by 2030.

Its distribution is very limited geographically, and it is considered as a critically endangered species by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which maintains the international «Red List» of threatened species, considers the polar bear «vulnerable» due to climate change - induced retreating sea ice.

Conservation International and the International Union for Conservation of Nature have developed the Blue Carbon Policy Framework, with the objective to integrate blue carbon activities into the policy and financial work of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which oversees international work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It's a concern shared by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

In 1994, the International Union for Conservation of Nature gave the concept of extractive reserves its stamp of approval, expanding its protected - area classification system to include «Category VI,» defined as «Protected Areas with Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.»

Of the 45,000 species evaluated in the 2008 Red List, issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 17,000, or nearly forty percent, may vanish.

Leopards are categorised as «near threatened» by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and their numbers are decreasing.

Of the species existing within this region, the authors anticipate that nearly 50 percent of the mammals, birds, reptiles, and other organisms found nowhere else on earth will become threatened according to the criteria of the Red List, an inventory of imperiled animals and plants maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Tasmanian devils then numbered 100,000 and had a large island to call home, so the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classed them as being of «Least Concern».

Not enough is known about the Antarctic minke for its conservation status to be classified on the Red List of Threatened Species maintained by the International Union for Conservatioconservation status to be classified on the Red List of Threatened Species maintained by the International Union for ConservationConservation of Nature.

One in six shark and ray species are classified as «threatened» by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but one in three species of open - ocean sharks are threatened.

Scientists, government officials and other interested parties debated the idea last week at the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Honolulu.

In 2015, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature raised the threat level of swift parrots in response to the new evidence provided by ANU researchers.

It was listed as critically endangered in 1994 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The worldwide arbiter — The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)-- maintains a Red List of endangered species that has become the accepted standard.

If the report's conclusions are accepted by the African Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN), the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) may be split into two species: L. africana, for those living on the savanna, and L. cyclotis, for those in the forest.

Among the 5 % of carnivores (17 species) that are most affected by roads, nine are currently categorised as «least concern» by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which means that they are regarded as not endangered.

In order to understand the origins of the Iberian Peninsula's most emblematic species and one of the world's most endangered felines according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (UICN), we must first go back in time.

Today at its quadrennial congress in Barcelona, Spain, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its long - awaited database detailing the status of all mammals known to humankind since the year 1500.

In 2009, the Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported that eight polar bear subpopulations are declining, three are stable and one is increasing.

It has been developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and is based on its Red List of Threatened...

«There is currently no effective water management strategy to speak of in Pakistan,» says Shah Murad Aliani, country representative for the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Pakistan.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN asked four speakers from November's World Parks Congress — a meeting held every 10 years by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to discuss issues concerning protected areas — what would be at the top of their to - do lists for the next decade.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, based in Gland in Switzerland, for example, has an authoritative list of threatened species.

Both species are listed as «critically endangered» by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Many of the newly recorded frogs, for instance, appear to be extremely endangered, yet they have not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

«We estimated that over 28 thousand lemurs are kept illegally as pets in Malagasy cities over the last three years alone,» said Reuter, who has recently been appointed to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group.