Sentences with phrase «wwf conservation scientists»

«Steve has worked extensively with a wide variety of species and has a well - established reputation as a conservation scientist.

Bezur, the Yale conservation scientist, says she was envious of such a definitive test.

«Taken on their own, these materials and techniques are not unique fingerprints to Velázquez,» says Anikó Bezur, a conservation scientist at Yale who worked with McClure.

VaquitaCPR (Conservation, Protection and Recovery) is an emergency action plan of the Mexican government with the input of an expert group of conservation scientists and marine mammal veterinarians.

On a sweaty October day in a dense, vine - laden forest near the town of Noh - Bec, Mexico, in the Yucatán Peninsula, a dozen American and Mexican conservation scientists bounce in the back of a truck headed down a narrow, rutted track of red mud.

Emily Darling, a marine conservation scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, an environmental group in New York, calls the study impressive.

This is the first time that the raw materials of Picasso's sculptures have been scrutinized in detail, conservation scientist Francesca Casadio of the Art Institute of Chicago said...

«Science plays a big role in deepening our understanding of these iconic masterpieces,» said Francesca Casadio, A.W. Melon senior conservation scientist at the Art Institute of Chicago, which is hosting a new exhibition, Van Gogh's Bedrooms.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

«The possibility of a disease affecting these fish has been on the table long before this paper came out and the usual suspect has been fish farms,» says John Reynolds, a salmon conservation scientist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Balmford, a conservation scientist, does not gloss over the damage humans have inflicted but reminds us that conservation can pay off.

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.

«We found out during that process how hard it is to paint like Rothko,» says Bronwyn Ormsby, senior conservation scientist for the UK's Tate galleries.

Conservation scientist Julia Jones of Bangor University in the United Kingdom first became interested in the issue while working on wild game management in eastern Madagascar.

In this episode, Cambridge conservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Johnson talks about a new, strategic approach to conservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the world's big cats.

Now she works as a conservation scientist at the National Gallery in London.

«Well - being is a universally applicable concept, yet because it can mean so many different things to different people, pinning down an exact definition is difficult,» said lead author Eleanor Sterling, who is the Jaffe Chief Conservation Scientist in the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

«The gap between what we know and don't know about Earth's biodiversity is still tremendous, but technology is playing a major role in closing it and helping us conserve biodiversity more intelligently and efficiently,» said coauthor Lucas N. Joppa, a conservation scientist at Microsoft's Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K.

It «presents a very clear and easy to understand up - to - date summary of the population trends and status of the birds in the U.S.,» says Stuart Butchart, a conservation scientist at BirdLife International in Cambridge, U.K. «Everyone ought to pay attention to what this report tells us.»

Smart radio tags attached to rhinos allowed the drones to home in on each herd's current location, says Pierre du Preez, MET's chief conservation scientist.

It uses some of the same long - term data as the climate change report and as a «collective statement of both governmental and non-governmental organizations... [it] presents a more accurate picture» of where birds stand, says Mark Eaton, a conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy, U.K.

Still, the process is «a laudable start in employing a scientifically rigorous methodology to identify those special ocean areas that deserve greater protection,» says conservation scientist Richard Steiner, a consulting researcher in Anchorage, Alaska.

«As conservation scientists, the existing paradigm is we should save everything,» says Leah Gerber, an ecologist at Arizona State University, Tempe.

«Conservation scientists asking wrong questions on climate change impacts on wildlife.»

But David Saunders, a conservation scientist at the National Gallery in London, says they are worrying about nothing.

«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.

The proliferation of problem drugs puts a premium on finding safer alternatives, says Toby Galligan, a conservation scientist at the United Kingdom's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Bedfordshire.

And without strong new protections, «there [are] a substantial number of mammals that are likely to disappear,» adds John Fa, a conservation scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom who also works with Indonesia's Center for International Forestry Research but was not involved with the study.

For an exhibit on display through May 10 at the Art Institute of Chicago, conservation scientist Francesca Casadio and colleagues conducted a number of tests to reveal the pigments van Gogh used.

With global collaborations, we can identify strategic future investments in marine protected areas, and track progress towards better outcomes,» said Dr. Emily Darling, Associate Conservation Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society, who leads a global coral reef monitoring program.

But «we wondered what was the net consequence of this big number of groupers inside the park,» says Daniel Brumbaugh, senior conservation scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Along with a new scientific paper, Lamb and his colleagues, conservation scientists with the BC government, have produced a land management guide focused on maintaining the spatial integrity of the landscape to bolster grizzly bear density.

«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.

So art conservation scientists have turned to nanotechnology for help.

Conservation scientists worked with animal care specialists to determine pandas» range of hearing sensitivity, discovering that they can detect sound into the ultrasonic range.

Using pandas located at the San Diego Zoo, conservation scientists worked with animal care specialists to determine pandas» range of hearing sensitivity, discovering that they can detect sound into the ultrasonic range.

The researchers are comprised of environmental economists and conservation scientists.

«Those species that are most vulnerable to rats are often the ones that are the most difficult to count» says Steffen Oppel, a Conservation Scientist with the RSPB who recently tested a new approach to count the invisible birds with colleagues from SPEA in Portugal.

Cambridge conservation scientist Spike Bucklow uncovered the knock - down cost of the 1260 AD «Westminter Retable» while researching his latest book «Riddle of the Image», which delves into the materials used in medieval works of art.

A lot of research, much of it driven by conservation scientists here in Cambridge, shows that this is less effective than simply removing the land from production — «sparing» it for conservation.»

«We're already working with public land managers and private landowners to make use of this valuable new information,» said Scott Bearer, Senior Conservation Scientist with The Nature Conservancy and one of the assessment's co-authors.

In a letter published in Science, a group of conservationists and conservation scientists, including members of the IUCN Saola Working Group and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin, have voiced their concern about the future of the species and stressed the importance of urgent ex situ management...

She is a conservation scientist with a particular interest in bridging the gap between science and management by creating analytical and decision - making tools for conservation planning.

Also referred to as a park warden, forest ranger or conservation scientist.

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

Dr. Wendy Kiso is the Research and Conservation Scientist at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation.

In January of 2018, I joined the Wildlife Conservation Society as a Conservation Scientist.

I am a Conservation Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and an Adjunct Professor in the Dept. of Earth System Science at Stanford University.

Wendy Kiso, Ph.D., Research and Conservation Scientist, Ringling Bros..

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