Sentences with phrase «concerned about their conservation»

«Our results provide hope for wildlife agencies, organizations, and citizens concerned about conservation,» offers study co-author Dr. Ashley Dayer of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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Last year, the United Nations» heritage body expressed concern about the state of the Great Barrier Reef and urged Australia to boost its conservation efforts.

There is significant concern within the coffee industry about meeting future demand, notes Bambi Semroc, vice president of sustainable markets and strategies for Conservation International, a nonprofit committed to environmental protection.

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.

Made before there was concern over the environment, before worries about water conservation, the Tiger Stadium showers are man - sized showers, torrents of water that can't be found anywhere else.

The New York State Assembly's Environmental Conservation Committee has voted in favor of a law that would defer the issuance of new hydrofracking permits amid increased environmental and health concerns about the controversial natural gas extraction method.

«We do understand legislators have concerns and questions about New York City's bill,» said Marcia Bystryn, the president of the New York League of Conservation Voters.

The UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has highlighted its concerns about rural crime and policing during a Stormont meeting.

Last week, the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Adirondack Park Agency had expressed concerns about the environmental impact of the tanker cars and pledged to look into «all legal and regulatory options to ensure the environment and the public are protected.»

Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Mark Grisanti, a Buffalo area Republican, is not advocating for a ban, but he says he «shares many of the concerns» about the gas drilling process.

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.

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.

Federal officials say similar concerns weigh on other ranchers, and that «use it or lose it» statutes create a strong headwind for the government's conservation program, prompting ranchers to worry about becoming too efficient for their own good.

«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).

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.

In fact, international collaborations are often funded to explore specific scientific or conservation objectives in developing countries without first engaging in genuine dialogue with in - county scientists and / or communities to learn more about their perspectives and observations concerning their natural world.

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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expressed support today for Senate legislation intended to strengthen shark conservation but expressed concern about a provision that it says would encroach on other countries» sovereignty.

The poll shows 46 percent are «water considerate;» 44 percent of the participants are what researchers classified as «water savvy conservationists» and 9 percent are not concerned about water conservation.

But while NOAA supports the legislation's intent, Hunt said it is concerned about provisions requiring NOAA's parent, the Commerce Department, to identify countries whose shark conservation plans do not pass U.S. muster, either in international waters or within their own exclusive economic zones.

You could just pick it up and read about the bird that you wanted to hear about and every time you did that, you'll get a lesson in conservation really about what factors are impacting the birds that you are concerned about.

«This is a leap forward but it doesn't change the conservation concern [about] emperor penguins and many other species,» says penguin expert P. Dee Boersma of the University of Washington, Seattle.

«This is something we've definitely been concerned about,» says ecologist Lee Hannah of Conservation International, who has studied climate paths in South Africa and Mexico and is part of the managed relocation working group.

Despite both species being recognised as of conservation concern under international, regional and national plans, very little is known about their populations or biology and hence vulnerability to anthropogenic threats.

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...

Scientists have become increasingly concerned about threats to bees in recent years, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature stating in March that 10 % of Europe's native wild species could soon face extinction.

Concerned about the lack of statesmen, conservation of America's freedoms and classically trained leaders, AHA was formed to «build tomorrow's heroes today.»

The World Heritage Centre and IUCN received information about a number of issues related to the management and the state of conservation of the property, namely uncontrolled and unregulated new buildings on the shores of Lake Elementaita, concerns of the involvement of the Endorois people in the nomination of the Lake Bogoria component and the development of geothermal power plants at Lake Bogoria.

FIU scientists have become increasingly concerned about the vulnerable populations of sharks and rays around the world and especially in Belize, where Global FinPrint lead scientist and FIU professor Demian Chapman has worked for nearly two decades on shark conservation.

Bells Beach is the inspiration for a local conservation group named Surfers Appreciating the Natural Environment, formed in 1988 by surfers concerned about the effect or tourism on the Bells Beach Surfing Reserve.

Concerns about conserving the Gili Island's generally, including dive sites, rubbish collection and beach cleaning, reef conservation projects of which there are now 63 BioRock reef regeneration structures have led to the creation of the Gili Eco Trust.

At the press opening, in the conservation studio that has a glorious floor to ceiling wall of glass on the Hudson (light, light, light), a kind and concerned professional explained: «We have put glass on many paintings for the first few months, because, having learned a lesson from the Tate Modern, we are expecting much larger and much different crowds from the old location, people who do not pay attention to their backpacks or care much about the art.»

A conservation essay offers two case studies that explore preservation issues and address larger concerns about the challenges of conserving contemporary art and organic materials.

For over a decade, Wallace chaired the Environment and Conservation Organizations of New Zealand (ECO), an alliance of non-governmental organizations concerned about the environment.

«Gola REDD + is an exceptionally high quality exemplar project that presents a unique opportunity for Corporates who are concerned about deforestation, keen to support wildlife conservation and species preservation, whilst taking responsibility for their carbon emissions» said Edward Hanrahan, CEO of ClimateCare.

The bigger question, if your are truly concerned about global warming, and conservation, are you willing to spend more, and adjust to a minimalist life style, even if it costs you a little more up front?

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.

A traditional conservative, let us say a Republican bird - watcher, could be far more concerned about «conservation» than a Democratic steelworker (more recently, at the far end of the traditional Left, Communist nations were the planet's most egregious polluters).

Barriers to large scale deployment of bioenergy include concerns about GHG emissions from land, food security, water resources, biodiversity conservation and livelihoods.

The legislation resolved concerns about effects to the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area and allowed the transmission line to be routed using the BLM Resource Advisory Council's (RAC) preferred alternative, which was also supported by the State of Idaho.

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