Sentences with phrase «conservation challenges today»
This award - winning film follows naturalist and author Joel Greenberg, A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, (Bloomsbury USA, 2014), as well as scientists, artists and teachers that are drawn to this literal teachable moment and its striking relevance to conservation challenges today.
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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.
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.
«One of the biggest challenges facing conservation today is our inability to step back and admit that there are animals that would take a little bit less work and a little bit less money but have the potential to survive for their genetic diversity into the future,» says John Fraser, chief executive of the New Knowledge Organization in New York city, a think tank and advocate of a triage response to species conservation.
Our aim was to create greater transparency and accountability in terms of what countries are doing — or, in some cases not doing — on some of the biggest challenges our world faces today, such as climate change, water, energy, conservation, and the management of our natural resources.
Today's management challenge is to balance conservation of the region's natural and cultural values with the demands of people who want to enjoy them.
Initiated at this site and propagated throughout the city, this Land Art project establishes a permanent relationship among people, plants, and place and is designed to address water conservation, the most critical challenge facing California today.
The confiscation of the turtles was hailed today by conservation groups, but Goode said there's a big challenge in returning them to the wild.