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Worldwide About Blog Wild View, the Wildlife Conservation Society's photo blog, offers a glimpse into the world of wildlife, and a lens on the conservation challenges of our day.

Rothko's black paintings turned out to be one of the great art - conservation challenges of our time: the artist used unstable homemade paints, and in paintings as subtle as these, even the slightest change in their sheen or degree of blackness matters.

Sound IN Spaces: The Conservation Challenges of Activation and Installation Tate collection of sound works is varied, encompassing film and video works with sound, sound works with an integral sculptural component and others that would be considered as just audio works.

About Site - Wild View, the Wildlife Conservation Society's photo blog, offers a glimpse into the world of wildlife, and a lens on the conservation challenges of our day.

Worldwide About Blog Wild View, the Wildlife Conservation Society's photo blog, offers a glimpse into the world of wildlife, and a lens on the conservation challenges of our day.

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The «calm conservation» vision of the Church which is so prevalent in certain circles today comes under direct challenge by the movements» vision of a missionary Church courageously projected toward new frontiers.

Starbucks is a founding member, alongside a growing coalition of industry leaders, of the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, a call to action led by Conservation International to make coffee the world's first sustainable agriculture product.

The Company is driving innovations that extract value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity.

Therefore, Starbucks is one of the founding members of The Sustainable Coffee Challenge, a diverse industry coalition led by Conservation International with the call to action of making coffee the world's first sustainable agricultural product.

The Challenge is now pulling together the industry pre-competitively to develop innovative solutions to ensure the prosperity and well - being of farmers, workers and communities, sustained supply of coffee, and conservation of nature.

said Eva Kjer Hansen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark, «Food loss and waste is a huge challenge for global food security, human livelihoods and the conservation of the environment that calls for global responses and individual action.

We do a lot of conservation already (high - efficiency appliances and low - flow faucets, let it mellow, using tub water for the garden in the summer, etc.), but I'm up for the challenge!

Mass Audubon's Shaping the Future of Your Community program will coordinate with stakeholders to identify key challenges that decision - makers face and help communities better balance and target conservation and development.

Once you get everyone on board with conservation, challenge your kids to come up with new and interesting ways of going green.

These plans identify the conservation assets provided by a sanctuary and prescribe actions necessary to maintain or enhance those assets in the face of 21st century challenges.

It gives us a chance to highlight the stories of our five engaging sea otters and the changing conservation challenges facing their counterparts in the wild.

Your donation to our program makes it possible for us to assemble and maintain a team of topnotch professionals capable of navigating the most complex and challenging conservation opportunities.

In addition, through warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose, Waldorf students are uniquely equipped to address the global challenges facing their generation — issues of renewable energy, climate change, food quality, wildlife conservation, and preserving our natural resources.

These restaurants» commitments are part of Shedd Aquarium's new conservation challenge called Shedd the Straw, which hopes to inspire Chicagoans to remove single - use plastic straws from their everyday routine to reduce the amount of plastic pollution that enters our waterways.

As he faces a tough primary challenge from former NYC Comptroller John Liu, Sen. Tony Avella has picked up the support of the New York League of Conservation Voters, which today will name the Queens senator its top priority candidate in advance of the Sept. 9 election.

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.

Examples of challenges that judges would expect to be addressed by applicants include climate change, water conservation, environmental improvement and an ageing population.

The UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has challenged a North Wales Police plan to carry out spot checks on legally held firearms and ammunition in breach of Government guidelines and without consulting stakeholders.

The 2014 Farm Bill, signed by President Barack Obama in February, authorizes $ 1.3 billion in spending over five years to help farmers adopt conservation practices in regions of the country facing significant environmental challenges.

The Constitution Pipeline Company said it will challenge the state rejection and said the denial letter from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation includes «flagrant misstatements and inaccurate allegations» and is driven by politics rather than science.

«New York is facing some of the most complex sustainability challenges in a generation, particularly in the areas of natural gas drilling and reductions in environmental staff and programs,» New York League of Conservation Voters President Marcia Bystryn said, adding that Martens «will be up to the challenge.»

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

There and at later conferences, I learned about the challenges of conservation — including the fact that there was no dialogue between the TCM and conservation communities.

The results of a large - scale survey of venom variation in the two snake species, published January 8, 2015 in the journal Genetics, challenge common assumptions in venom evolution research, provide crucial information for rattlesnake conservation, and will help coral snake antivenom development.

It's a very important but also very challenging issue [of] aligning the needs of biodiversity conservation with the needs of human and community development.

Despite the challenges ahead, Michael Mascia, a senior social scientist at WWF and founder of the Social Science Working Group for the Society of Conservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenConservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenconservation and human development promising.

Given such variation, as well as the expense and logistical challenges of conducting population surveys, indigenous communities will be important partners in developing workable conservation strategies, such as the creation of new protected areas or harvest quotas, the study suggests.

Dr Campos - Silva, first author of the study, said: «Conservation initiatives in Amazonian floodplains are often a huge challenge due to lack of governance, investments and human resources.

And there are many conservation challenges on the ground because sometimes that's part of a huge wetland could be a fish farm and then there's conflict with human because they will be taking part of the food that we need.

Ornithologist Eduardo Inigo - Elias, senior research associate with the conservation science program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, talks about the challenges of studying migratory birds and how improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba will help his field

«The planetary boundaries framework is not a useful guide for policy or environmental management in any concrete sense, as it does not capture the challenges involved in most of the environmental problems it lists,» argues geographer Linus Blomqvist, policy associate at the institute's Conservation Program and co-author of the review.

«The threat of invasive species is perhaps our most urgent economic and conservation challenge.»

Professor Pandolfi warns the resultant novel combinations of resident and migrant species will present unprecedented challenges for conservation planning.

Identifying hotspots of genetic diversity helps manage the species from a conservation standpoint and preserve tortoise populations that could respond better to unknown challenges in the years ahead.

A new article addresses the ecological and ethical challenges stemming from the question of what effects the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology will have on the conservation of nature.

The authors explain the need for new strategies in the conservation community to cope with the challenges of synthetic biology.

Traveling to and accessing all the sites was logistically challenging and we had a lot of support from USFWS and other conservation partners.

Agus Sari — chief executive of the Belantara Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on environmental conservation and rehabilitation in Jakarta — says that weak law enforcement is a major challenge.

Understanding population dynamics is crucial for the conservation of long - lived species like albatrosses, but collecting data on albatrosses before they reach adulthood and begin to breed is challenging.

«Plants, animals, and people all depend on forests and may all face additional challenges as temperatures increase and precipitation patterns shift,» said John Shuey, a co-author of the study and Director of Conservation Science for the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

By protecting the panda, zoos can encourage the conservation of the entire forest in which it lives — including the charismatically challenged animals that also call it home.

The increasing use of the internet by wildlife traders, especially those involved in illegal trade, is a significant challenge to conservation of traded species especially those in niche markets.

«Reconciling agriculture and conservation is one of this century's greatest challenges,» said Dr Ben Phalan from Cambridge University's Department of Zoology.

But for a conservation biologist like Phalan, many of the greatest and most important challenges are in the tropics, in locations that can only be reached by air.

Wynne was the chief author of a joint report, Biodiversity Challenge, published by environmental groups at the end of last year, which proposed more than 500 targets for the conservation of species and habitats.