Sentences with phrase «at the nature conservancy»

The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»

A few weeks ago, I corresponded with Jonathon Colman, the associate director of digital marketing at The Nature Conservancy (and possibly the most intense user of social media that I have ever encountered).

Prior to taking his current post in 2007, Beers served as deputy state director at the Nature Conservancy.

These people actually target what they want, then play in with Mike Carr at The Nature Conservancy - then get AG Andrew Cuomo to lie for them - covering with a bogus investigation.

«The aspirational end point would be some kind of independent certification system,» says David Harrison, a senior adviser at the Nature Conservancy based in Salem, Oregon, who worked on the protocol.

Listing an area helps governments and NGOs preserve it, says Juan Bezaury - Creel at the Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia.

Duncan Marsh, director of the international climate program at the Nature Conservancy, said both leaders» speeches were made not only to the world leaders assembled at the U.N. conference but also to their home audiences.

The criticism voiced by the peat commission — which includes such figures as Derek Ratcliffe, former chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy Council, the forerunner of English Nature — is backed by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy, praised Indonesia's climate efforts and noted that the government said it can achieve the deeper end of its 29 - to -41-percent emissions curb by 2030 if it receives international finance.

But in opening the door to the plant's cultivation, far more scrutiny is needed as to how eucalyptus will behave when grown in bulk, said Doria Gordon, a senior ecologist at the Nature Conservancy.

Langtry's legacy lives on, and at the Nature Conservancy's headquarters in Toronto, staff haven't forgotten her dogged insistence that donated money is not to be wasted.

«Many aspects of this recovery effort — from its scientific rigor to the collaborative enterprise that drove it — can serve as model [sic] to advance conservation elsewhere,» Scott Morrison, the director of Conservation Science at the Nature Conservancy, said in a press release.

The show includes plein air paintings done at Nature Conservancy sites along with other locations on the East End.

Some folks at the Nature Conservancy are going to help out.

(He is an executive vice president and senior scientist at Conservation International and previously worked at the Nature Conservancy.)

«The conservation movement now largely says these large, migrating herds aren't so bad after all,» said Wendy Millet, the ranch director who formerly worked at the Nature Conservancy.

By Sara Mortensen, Digital Content Marketing Specialist, The Nature Conservancy When I first began working at The Nature Conservancy, I never thought I would be writing about Star Wars.

Lynn Scarlett The former Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior is currently Managing Director for Public Policy at The Nature Conservancy.

When M53 managed to successfully cross the US - Mexico boarder, he inadvertently became somewhat of a diplomat for other lions, and is helping scientists at The Nature Conservancy protect the wildlife corridors the animals need to survive.

«Unfortunately, we found that great swathes of the world's coastal waters are unprotected, meaning coastal livelihoods, incomes and food supplies are all at risk as fish stocks fall and coastlines erode,» says Mark Spalding, a senior marine scientist at The Nature Conservancy and lead author of the study.

Stephanie Wear is lead scientist, spokesperson and NatureNet Science Fellow for coral reef conservation at The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental organization.

Wear is the lead scientist, spokesperson and NatureNet Science Fellow for coral reef conservation at The Nature Conservancy.

At The Nature Conservancy, we are committed to expanding opportunities through innovative partnerships with organizations like Lowe's, who support paid internships as part of our broader youth engagement initiatives.

A recent study led by Bronson Griscom, director of forest carbon science at The Nature Conservancy, was key to convincing policymakers of the need to advance climate - smart initiatives for the land sector — including forests, wetlands and especially agriculture.

Not exact matches

Jen serves on the digital advisory board for The Nature Conservancy and for the Master of Arts in Media Entrepreneurship at American University.

Everyone looks good in green and to celebrate Gilt Groupe will be offering a unique Earth Day celebration sale today at 12 pm EST with a portion of proceeds benefiting the National Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy.

At 10:30 a.m., Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and other city officials announce a new carbon agreement between the Nature Conservancy, the Albany Department of Water and Water Supply and the Albany Water Board, City Hall, Eagle Street, Albany.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan announces a new carbon agreement between The Nature Conservancy, the City of Albany Water Department, and the Albany Water Board, Albany City Hall Rotunda, 24 Eagle St., Albany.

Here in our region, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program has taken the lead, and works with groups like the Nature Conservancy, the Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith's College and Lake George Land Conservancy.

The company crafted what was, at the time, an innovative response, says Tricia Martin, the Nature Conservancy's Central Florida conservation director: «Instead of doing piecemeal mitigation, which tended to produce tiny parcels within a development, they decided to do a larger project off - site.»

The Nature Conservancy hopes that what it learns about the project will make it easier for other communities weighing similar projects to move forward with natural systems, McLeod said last week, speaking on a panel about climate adaptation and resilience at the same event as Bostick.

The Nature Conservancy found a perfect opportunity in Miami - Dade County in South Florida, said Kathy McLeod, director of global risk reduction and resilience at the environmental organization.

According to a report from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), released this week at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington DC, shellfish reefs are the world's most imperilled marine habitats — faring worse than coral reefs and mangrove forests.

Think of it as the Nature Conservancy in space, aimed at the preservation of the entire planet.

Kris Johnson, a scientist with The Nature Conservancy and co-author of the study, said: «By knowing those places most at risk from floods, we could avoid development in these areas.

Archibald, Buler, and their colleagues further investigate this distributional pattern by analyzing the interaction between spring migratory flight behavior and the migrant exodus at nearshore stopover sites using NEXRAD radar,» according to The Nature Conservancy's Dave Ewert.

Gido, Perkin and their colleagues at the U.S. Geological Survey, Colorado State University, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Westar Energy and The Nature Conservancy used groundwater well data from the 1950s to 2010 to track the rate of change in the water table of the High Plains Aquifer.

Jiangxiao Qiu, a former graduate student in Turner's laboratory and now a postdoctoral researcher with The Nature Conservancy, studied the impact the Asian worms — of the species Amynthas agrestis and Amynthas tokioensis — from July through October of 2014 in the forest at the UW Arboretum, and conducted an experiment on soil samples taken from around southern Wisconsin.

Sponsors to date include the Autodesk, National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, Turner Endangered Species Fund, USDA APHIS, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Zygote Ventures, and an anonymous large Charitable Trust.

Before retiring, she was an executive at a number of environmental organizations, including the Nature Conservancy and the Environmental Partnership for Central Europe, a project of the German Marshall Fund.

The magazine Bay Nature covers the remarkable restoration work at Mori Point, which features a profusion of spring wildflowers; habitat for rare, threatened, and endangered species; breathtaking vistas from coastal bluffs; and an astonishing community stewardship effort led by the Parks Conservancy.

Kirby park has a small boat launch and provides parking for a small trail on Nature Conservancy property at the north side.

For private boaters» permission to land on Santa Cruz Island, call The Nature Conservancy at: 805-964-7839.

During the March «From Shore to Sea» lecture, biologist Paula Power discussed a large - scale effort by the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy to restore the coastal wetland at Prisoners Harbor on Santa Cruz Island.

Santa Cruz Island — 47,500 acres including all private Nature Conservancy lands, NPS developed areas at Scorpion, Prisoners, Del Norte and Smugglers and roads

In addition, the U.S. Navy has a lease from The Nature Conservancy at the radar site on Santa Cruz.

For this study we exclusively used tissue samples that had previously been deposited in several frozen tissue collections from recognized institutions including those housed at CCEG, at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, the Catalina Island Conservancy, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkley, the Colorado State University, the Nature Conservancy, the National Park Service collections (permit number CHIS -2012-SCI-0006) including the National Park Service Special Collection at Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection at the American Museum of Natural History (see S1 Table).

They are the biggest salt refinery Lanzarote and the whole Canary archipelago at all have to offer, reason for which they were put under nature conservancy.

From his lush early paintings of the Arkansas nature conservancy Grassy Lake and the Texas Gulf Coast; to his reliefs, sculptures, and assemblages created in a variety of materials; to his most recent paintings depicting survivors of Hurricane Katrina, self - portraits, and a return to still life, this exhibition provides an in - depth look at the work of a unique and significant American artist.

From his lush early paintings of the Arkansas nature conservancy Grassy Lake and the Texas Gulf Coast, to his reliefs, sculptures, and assemblages created in a variety of materials, to his most recent paintings depicting survivors of Hurricane Katrina, self - portraits and a return to still life, the exhibition provided an in - depth look at the work of a unique and significant American artist.