Sentences with phrase «conservation concern from»

The experts attending the Bronx Zoo - hosted Vaccines for Conservation: Exploring the Feasibility of Protecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectious diseases:

Not exact matches

From galas honoring champions of conservation to intimate gatherings of concerned global citizens, the Rainforest Alliance hosts events that enable you to support our mission and make a difference.

Alan Jarrett, Chairman of BASC said: «I welcome the RSPB and scientists» endorsement of pest control as a key action that benefits species, many of which are already of conservation concern, and which could further suffer from climate change.

The British government has sought to dampen down concern from conservation group WWF that «water wars» are a growing threat to global security.

Conservation and environmental groups are concerned a convention would impact the «forever wild» clause that protects the Adirondack and Catskills regions from development and environmental degradation.

With these concerns in mind, several elected officials and the operators of the Peace Bridge asked the state Department of Environmental Conservation this spring to begin enforcing a state law that prohibits trucks from idling for more than five minutes under normal circumstances.

We are active within the political system on a broad range of issues that concern every New Yorker, from taxation, conservation to local food availability.

We are active within the political system on a broad range of issues that concern every New York, from taxation, conservation to local food availability.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will co-host a candidates forum focusing on the environment today at Scoville Hall in Amagansett from 5 to 7 p.m..

The Environmental Conservation Commissioner, Joe Martens, in an email letter to the agency's employees, says he's proud to have headed an agency that, in addition to traditional environmental concerns, responded to natural disasters like Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, and most recently, helped to find two escaped prisoners from a North Country prison.

«The decline in Madagascan amphibians is not just a concern for herpetologists and frog researchers,» says Dr Franco Andreone from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), who is one of the study authors.

In their paper, the team of scientists from the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Smithsonian Institution (both USA), and the University of Göttingen, Germany, also raise concerns on the conservation status of this unique tree which is severely limited to a 1.5 km2 area of occupancy on Kaua`i.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN asked four speakers from November's World Parks Congress — a meeting held every 10 years by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to discuss issues concerning protected areas — what would be at the top of their to - do lists for the next decade.

It concerns not only an increased extinction threat to re-discovered species, but also the collection of specimens from small populations more generally,» said Ben Minteer, an environmental ethicist and conservation scholar in ASU's School of Life Sciences.

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.

Though Martinsen and Schall are quick to note that they anticipate little danger to people from this newly discovered deer malaria, it does underline the fact that many human health concerns are connected to wider ecological systems — and that understanding the biology of other species is a foundation to both conservation and public health management.

As of 2008, the IUCN regards the gray whale as being of «Least Concern» from a conservation perspective.

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.»

Patricia Phelps de Cisneros discusses the CPPC's collaboration with the Getty's Research and Conservation Institutes that led to surprising new scholarship concerning Concrete art from Latin America.

Despite satellite estimates that more than doubled the population of known Emperor Penguins, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) changed their ranking of Emperors from a species of Least Concern to a Near - Threatened species based on modeling studies blaming the decline of DuDu's penguins on climate change as presented in Jenouvrier and Caswell's study.

«The IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) should have been disbanded in 1996, the year polar bears were down - graded from a status of «vulnerable to extinction'to «lower risk — conservation dependent» (now called «least concern») on the IUCN Red List,» Professor Crockford writes.

29 There are already many tree planting initiatives proposed or under way that are driven by a range of concerns, from climate change and desert expansion to soil conservation and making cities more habitable.

The precautionary principle should be applied here, but conservation wisdom seems to have disappeared from the philosophy of the Fish and Wildlife Service, at least where windfarms are concerned.

The lease sales come after Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke removed 17,000 acres of public lands near Yellowstone National Park from the auction block from the March sale in response to intense public pressure from conservation groups and in order to address environmental concerns.

Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: General Provisions -(Sec. 1401) Expresses the sense of Congress that federal agencies assessing risks to human health and the environment from energy technology, production, transport, transmission, distribution, storage, use, or conservation activities shall: (1) use sound and objective scientific practices in assessing such risks; (2) consider the best available science (including peer reviewed studies); and (3) describe the weight of the scientific evidence concerning such risks.

Due to public concerns and in response to Gasland, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission tested the methane from this burning faucet.

From galas honoring champions of conservation to intimate gatherings of concerned global citizens, the Rainforest Alliance hosts events that enable you to support our mission and make a difference.

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

For a variety of reasons unrelated to concerns over climate change, we should advance energy conservation and move away from fossil fuels to renewable resources.

This comment adds to the earlier post by Martin Olszynski (here) on the Ernst litigation against Alberta Environment, the Alberta Energy Regulator / Energy Resources Conservation Board (AER / ERCB) and Encana Corporation concerning allegations of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing.