Sentences with phrase «conservation actions»

They provide information on the status of wildlife populations and can help evaluate the effectiveness of conservation actions, thereby allowing for adaptive management.

Here are some ways you can keep advocating to support the role of science in guiding conservation action and environmental policy.

The agency and its partners are also developing methods to assess the potential resilience of reefs so management officials can target and prioritize local conservation actions.

In the findings, researchers also discuss solutions to the problems these productive ecosystems face, including the importance of community - led conservation action.

Our activities range from single species conservation actions to restoration of ecological communities and functional ecosystems.

I use extinction risk to mean that the process of extinction is occurring and will reach its unfortunate end state unless conservation actions are put into place or global warming is reversed.

Dolphins, Whales and Porpoises: 2002 - 2010 Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans.

Total amount granted: USD 140,000: i) USD 30,000 from the Rapid Response Facility for the monitoring of unauthorized activities in the Bladen Nature Reserves which were impacting the property; ii) USD 30,000 for emergency conservation actions in favour of the critically endangered wide sawfish (2010); iii) USD 80,000 in support of public use planning and site financing strategy development for the Blue Hole Natural Monument (2008 - 2009).

This week Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), declined to place the Greater Sage Grouse on the Endangered Species list, stating that unprecedented cooperative, voluntary, conservation actions by advocates, state governments and the private sector had sufficiently increased the bird's population and protected its habitat.

BASC's Green Shoots programme is a nationally recognised example of how mobilise a section of society to deliver specific conservation actions, who have influence the management of over two thirds of the rural land area and spend over # 250 million each year on conservation.

i) USD 30,000 from the Rapid Response Facility for monitoring of unauthorized activities in the Bladen Nature Reserves, impacting the property; ii) USD 30,000 for emergency conservation actions in favour of the critically endangered wide sawfish (2010); iii) USD 80,000 in support of public use planning and site financing strategy development for the Blue Hole Natural Monument (2008 - 2009).

Point Blue, a non-profit organization, works in cooperation with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Refuge to collect long - term data sets used to «inform management and conservation actions on the island.»

We are one of many wildlife sanctuaries participating in the statewide wildlife sanctuary Inventory and Monitoring Project, which helps Mass Audubon evaluate and provide the basis for future conservation action though land management decisions, advocacy, and education.

The report by the Mumbai - based Conservation Action Trust is the first comprehensive examination of the link between fine particle pollution and health problems in India, where coal is the fuel of choice and energy demands are skyrocketing.

«We will need significant conservation action to save monarch butterflies in the West.»

The study, compiled by the North American Bird Conservation Initiative and the first of its kind to look at the vulnerability of bird populations in Canada, the United States and Mexico, said 37 percent of all 1,154 species on the continent needed urgent conservation action.

By mastering these skills, volunteers gain increased experience and control over asking and answering scientific questions which, in turn, augments science literacy, facilitates conservation action and stewardship, and increases knowledge of amphibians.

The purpose is to increase conservation action in the wider countryside and so help meet biodiversity targets

«Now our team at ZSL is focused on identifying conservation actions which might reduce these climate impacts on wild dogs, and working out where they are most needed.»

The ESA can not ensure habitat protection or require other countries to take affirmative conservation action to protect the giraffe.

«Had recommended conservation actions actually been carried out, the baiji would almost certainly be with us today.»

Although Streak - eared and Ayeyawady bulbuls are generally common where they occur and neither of the cryptic species involved in this discovery seem to be under threat of extinction, the future discovery of cryptic species may well refer to endangered species that will require immediate conservation action.

Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency's regions and research stations to jointly produce draft «landscape conservation action plans» by March 1

We hope people will prove us wrong by taking the necessary conservation actions.»

Philippa Benson, managing editor at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, helps researchers conceptualize and develop publications that will enable their findings to be translated into conservation actions in the field.

«J.J. and I have had the distinct privilege of facilitating research that confirms a direct correlation between conservation actions undertaken by a broad partnership and ecosystem responsiveness that is leading to positive ecological outcomes.»

«Hunting, birdwatching boosts conservation action, study finds.»

For example, last September Possingham, Kerrie Wilson (a biologist at the University of Queensland), and a team of researchers assessed the cost and outcomes of various conservation actions in 39 «Mediterranean» ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF).

«We hope that this study will highlight the marine species that are most in need of management and conservation actions under climate change,» said William Cheung, associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and director of science for the Nippon Foundation — UBC Nereus Program.

This creative cartography, the researchers hope, will help Northwest managers take strategic and preemptive conservation actions in forests at risk of climate - induced mortality.

Proactive conservation actions to save from extinction the direct development mode of reproduction of marsupial frogs (Gastrotheca, Hemiphractidae) in the Ecuadorian Andes.

«With the human population worldwide now 25 times greater than 3,000 years ago and projected to increase by about 4 billion people by the end of the twenty - first century,» the authors warn, «extinction rates will accelerate in the absence of large - scale conservation actions.»

They initiate biodiversity conservation actions and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land use practices for soil, water and natural forest with the aim to increase land productivity and improve water flow.

Conservation Actions Underway Following the cat eradication programme, Ascension is maintained free of feral cats by enforcing a strict sterilisation regulation for all domestic cats, and by severely limiting the number of domestic cats that can be brought to the island, which are regulated through a cat registration database.

The mission of the San Francisco Zoo is to connect people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature and advance conservation action.

High - impact conservation action: invasive mammal eradication from the islands of western Mexico

«We have been confident that data from Global FinPrint will catalyze conservation action to protect threatened shark and rays on coral reefs around the world.»

The Packard foundation had already put some money toward conservation actions but they were exasperated that there was little movement.

Island conservation action in northwest Mexico.

The new photos inspired the CBC and its partners to swing immediately into action to create a fishing cat conservation action plan focused on the two Cambodian preserves.

Rapid conservation action will be necessary if these new 2010 mammals are not to vanish as quickly as they appeared.

However, the report also stresses that concerted conservation action can have an impact: 5 % of species currently listed as threatened in the wild (including such high profile species as the African elephant) are showing signs of recovery.