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And it's interesting, because we get invited by dozens of other conservation organizations to come and talk about Conservation by Design and some of the planning tools that are behind it.

Not exact matches

A Christian conservation charity has told Premier it is pleasantly surprised by the Environment Secretary's comments about his vision for a «green Brexit».

Concerned about the soil, environment, energy conservation, and fresh, local, healthy food, he began by selling vegetables to restaurants, local food co-ops, and at farmers markets.

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).

The horror that men like Max Long and Darwin Creek feel at the mention of 1080 is largely unshared by the growing army of conservation sts in the U.S. as a whole, and for a simple reason: like the majority of the people of poison - drenched Wyoming, they know nothing about it.

Students, seventh - graders, actually got to gut and filet their fish and have an anatomy lesson, we talked about nutrition, the food system, we've talked about conservation and sustainability and we also end the program by cooking.

You can learn more about Mass Audubon's efforts to identify areas that are critical for conservation in the face of climate change by reading our Losing Ground report.

About 17 miles of new and rehabilitated trail projects will be funded in the six - county Chicago area this year by the Illinois Department of Conservation program.

Besides supporting environmental - conservation by helping kids learn about eco-friendly behaviors, Zeenie Dollz also supports environmental efforts across the globe.

«I'm also humbled by the organization's faith in me and excited about its growing role in the conservation future of the Commonwealth.»

But, what has impressed me most of all is Richard Becker's resourcefulness and creativity evidenced by his role while a member of the Cortlandt Town Board in bringing about the innovative Cortlandt Heating Oil Plan (CHOP), which at the height of the economic crisis provided both heating oil discounts as well as conservation tips and energy audits to help local residents afford to heat their homes at a time when many were risking their health by living in homes that were too cold because they couldn't afford the high cost of heating oil.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

Clearly this action raises serious doubts about the Government's commitment to the eradication of fuel poverty in England by 2016, as required by the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000.

About 30 people attended the informational meeting, which was held the same day that Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the completion of a white paper on Peace Bridge corridor air quality by the departments of Transportation, Environmental Conservation, and Health.

By either copying Leftist environmentalism, or not talking about it at all, Conservatives have surrendered their natural territory - that of conservation.

Basil Seggos, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, was questioned by lawmakers about the state's algal bloom problem during his nearly three - hour testimony.

The event was organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) in conjunction with New Forest keeper Maarten Ledeboer who spoke to the Young Shots about the importance of his role in deer management for the forest.

Minutes from an Oct. 8 meeting of Red Hook's Conservation Advisory Committee show Town Board member Brenda Cagle reporting that the Northern Dutchess town's planner and another board member had been approached by the bottling company about a plan to draw water from Cokertown Springs, located on Turkey Hill Road.

Asked about the state's exchanges with USGS and the effect they had on the final report, a spokeswoman provided the following statement: «While the report was drafted by USGS, it simply underwent a technical review by NYSERDA staff and other experts, including experts from other state agencies like the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Lands purchased by the Virginia - based Conservation Fund includes forests next to Cherry Plain State Park and the Capital District Wildlife Management Area, which cover about 4,300 acres in the southern Rensselaer County town of Stephentown.

She was backed by about $ 500,000 in media and direct - mail spending by EMILY's List, while Schatz received about $ 400,000 in air and mail support from the League of Conservation Voters and liberal groups like MoveOn.org.

Gamekeepers, shoot managers and shoot captains in the South East of England will have a chance to learn about health and safety at an event run by the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

And they say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

The Clean Energy Fund is part of an effort by the Cuomo administration to overhaul NYSERDA and the state's renewable energy and energy conservation programs, which are funded by a surcharge on utility bills — about $ 3.50 a month for the average gas and electric customer in the Capital Region.

They say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

Researchers report in Conservation Letters this week that the monk seal population in Hawaii's Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument is shrinking by about 4 percent a year, while a sub-population of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands next door — where fishing, development and boat activity are permitted — is increasing by 7 percent a year.

The business credits would generate by 2015 about $ 12 billion to $ 15 billion for international forest conservation, he added.

Scientific analysis of several paintings has revealed new information about Vincent van Gogh's use of color, an unattributed work believed to be by Spanish master Diego Velazquez, and the materials used by artists in the Roman era, according to conservation experts at a 14 February news briefing at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting.

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.

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

About 300 marine scientists have signed a petition in favor of the ban, released in June by a French marine conservation nongovernmental organization called Bloom.

In recent decades, however, seed conservation and sharing efforts have been hampered at times by concerns about biopiracy, as nations have negotiated numerous international treaties and agreements that regulate the collection, movement, and equitable use of seeds and other genetic resources.

According to estimates by the World Conservation Organization IUCN, the world's giraffe population is about 100,000 individuals — showing a decreasing trend.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

«The rainforests of Western Equatorial Africa contain most of the world's gorillas and about one - third of all chimpanzees, and gorillas in particular are being severely and negatively impacted by human activities across their range,» said Dr. Fiona Maisels, WCS Conservation Biologist and a contributor to the plan.

«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.

Populations of the world's tallest land creature fell to about 98,000 from an estimated 152,000 - 163,000 in 1985, according to the List compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Many of the key decisions about the fate of this coastline will be taken by conservation bodies which, says St Joseph, have been the largest purchasers of Essex coastal sites in the past decade.

But programs aimed at studying and protecting threatened species would take a $ 6.4 million cut, to $ 170 million, and habitat conservation and restoration programs would fall by $ 7.2 million, to about $ 36 million.

Saiga antelope populations plummeted due to poaching by over 95 percent in just 20 years — from nearly 2 million to only about 50,000 animals — but with CMS support and conservation actions by governments and conservation organizations on the ground, the population has begun to rebound and has now reached over 200,000 animals.

The paper by lead author Dr Nicole Boivin from the University of Oxford and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, with researchers from the UK, US, and Australia, suggests that archaeological evidence has been missing from current debates about conservation priorities.

That includes about half of the mammals and almost a quarter of the birds on the «red list» kept by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

«The habitats of many chameleon species, and not only, are highly threatened by the ongoing deforestation in Madagascar and we need rapidly to expand our knowledge about the biodiversity, so that suitable conservation measures can be taken,» he stresses.

«(C) information including eligibility information about, and contact information for, any conservation or renewable energy programs, grants, or loans offered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, including the Energy Efficient Mortgage Program;

«(D) information including eligibility information about, and contact information for, any conservation or renewable energy programs, grants, or loans offered for qualified military personal, reservists, and veterans by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;

Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector, about the value of snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leopard.

While not all genes with an immune function will necessarily be regulated by any specific infection, and thus an RNA - seq - based catalog of immune - related genes can not be expected to be complete, it has the significant advantage of being unbiased by assumptions about conservation of genes across species, and thus serves as a valuable starting point for comparative analysis of the evolution of immune pathways.

New insights enable improved protection measures for the giraffe According to estimates by the World Conservation Organization IUCN, the world's giraffe population is about 100,000 individuals — showing a decreasing trend.

This page comprises news items about the LPO and bird conservation in France, compiled by Ken Hall.

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