Sentences with phrase «conservation agencies»

This course emphasizes applied ecological research conducted in partnership with local conservation agencies.

You will work with a number of different projects including regional councils, national parks, museums and national conservation agencies.

«We don't even know that there is a decline in reptile species as there is with certain amphibian species,» says Hank Jenkins, a biologist at the Australian Nature Conservation Agency in Canberra.

Lest you wonder why federal wildlife conservation agencies include polar bears under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, have a look at this video.

Our crucial role in guaranteeing this was recognised by a number of leading conservation agencies at the Chagos Regagne Conference in 2011, when they signed a declaration in favour of our return.

It is endorsed by all the governments» statutory nature conservation agencies for its ability to achieve conservation targets for society at large.

It is this last characteristic that grabbed the attention of Ecocean, an Australian marine conservation agency.

Agreed to lift a moratorium by the state environmental conservation agency declaring that mute swans are a «prohibited invasive species.»

We have worked with institutions such as the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum and run wildlife tours in conjunction with conservation agencies such as Fauna & Flora International, Wildlife Conservation Society, the Orangutan Foundation, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the Jane Goodall Institute.

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

Although it is difficult to make any causal link between the existence of the database and trends in poaching, Rod Potter, a wildlife investigator at conservation agency Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, says that poachers who have been convicted using DNA evidence are less likely to appeal against their sentences.

Now, another skeleton exonerates the Romans, says archaeologist Simon Mays of English Heritage, a government conservation agency in Portsmouth.

In 1991, English Nature, the government's main conservation agency, began a small but potentially important experiment in «managed retreat» of the coastline at Northey Island, a small patch of salt marsh and grazing pasture owned by the National Trust in Essex's Blackwater estuary.

This direct mortality is similar in scale to mortality caused by building collisions and far exceeds that caused by collisions with wind or communications towers, oil spills, or other sources on which conservation agencies invest time and money.

«Tom Bly, fisheries biologist with the AGFC said that feral cats are considered an invasive species by conservation agencies and organizations nationwide.

IFAW was found in the year 1969 and is one of the largest conservation agencies in the world.

* In our chat, Savitz explained many ways this system will enable conservation agencies or private groups to identify suspicious activity or illegal fishing in countries» exclusive economic zones or protected areas.

This US - based think tank partnered with the Polish National Energy Conservation Agency (KAPE) and European Climate Foundation (ECF) to develop a tool to help... [Read more...]

Job Notes: Most snake milkers are zoologists who work for national zoos and animal conservation agencies.

If sound pollution is causing a problem, Patricelli and her team plan to work with local conservation agencies to mitigate the effects.

Mass Audubon is proud to have such an effective state wildlife conservation agency, which manages more than 160,000 acres of land, and we look forward to continuing to partner with them on areas of common interest.

These patrols are the work of SATGAS and the Marine Conservation Agency.

Aspira is a leading provider of cloud - based reservation and licensing technologies to public and private campgrounds as well as federal, state, provincial, and government park and conservation agencies, conveniently connecting them with outdoor adventure seekers from around the world.

«Shooting's contribution to conservation is well - documented, well - founded and widely recognised by government and conservation agencies.

English Nature, the government's conservation agency, has «cautiously backed the NRA's scheme», says its head of coastal geomorphology, Richard Leafe.

Kerr and his colleagues say that the situation is so dire that governments and conservation agencies should consider artificially creating colonies to the north to help them spread, a process called assisted migration.

From this year, under a deal with Fisons, the giant of the peat business, control of this and other peat bogs passes to the government's conservation agency, English Nature.

And they make some conservation agencies set these unrealistic targets, saying that, «Okay, we had the tiger summit with Mr. Putin presiding in 2010, so in ten years after that we should have twice the number of tigers.»

In the UK, the conservation agency English Heritage was protesting against motorway building, pointing out that the government's plans would «destroy or disturb more than 800 known archaeological sites» (25 October 1990).

The Scottish Wildlife Trust has identified 51 sites that it believes should be safeguarded, but Scottish Natural Heritage — the government's conservation agency — has designated only 25 of them as Sites of Special Scientific Interest.

The soil - conservation agency, however, says that frost levels in our part of Washington reach an average of 18 inches below the surface.

Nonetheless their conservation agencies are going ahead, because they recognize that doing nothing will result in the irrecoverable loss of much of their unique native wildlife.

The local conservation agency, known as Panthera, have successfully tracked and identified 131 jaguars primarily via the use of camera traps.

As recently as May, the conservation agency BirdLife International declared the Alaotra Grebe, a black - and - yellow water bird, extinct.

The lake — the largest ever created by a state conservation agency — is stocked with bass, catfish and crappie, and is surrounded by two state wildlife management areas.

Hospitals, universities, environmental and conservation agencies, veteran service organizations and animal protection leagues need your skills when it comes to fundraising, marketing campaigns, community outreach, and event planning.

Had native title holders rights not been extinguished in nature reserves in WA, these areas may have provided native title holders and conservation agencies an opportunity for the sustainable use of these areas and for the development of local communities.

Importantly, an analysis of existing joint management relationships can provide a useful guide to developing better and more equitable management arrangements between Indigenous land holders and conservation agencies.