Sentences with phrase «conservation group wwf»

The conservation group is planning to prevent the Japanese whaling supply ship, the Sun Laurel, from delivering fuel and other supplies to both the whalers and their factory ship.

A new report from Oceana, a ocean conservation group, totals up the «bycatch» problem, and the numbers are fairly staggering.

Oceana, the world's biggest ocean conservation group, filed a statement with FERC in support of the AWC.

With the Goldman Prize award money, Brown set up Bush Heritage Australia (BHA), a conservation group that he calls «the down - under equivalent of Nature Conservancy.»

American Bird Conservancy was born in 1994, based on the need our founder, George Fenwick, saw for a fearless bird conservation group — one that wasn't afraid to take on difficult issues like free - roaming cats and pesticides.

Protected forests are being indiscriminately felled across Europe to meet the EU's renewable energy targets, according to an investigation by the conservation group Birdlife.

A Massachusetts conservation group says it will sue ExxonMobil for failing to protect the Boston harbor area from an old, leaky oil terminal that spews toxic material into nearby rivers, charging that the company's dual...

«An annual spring migration of thousands of eagles, hawks, and falcons travel through this area and congregate along the Huron County shoreline,» said Monica Essenmacher, President of Port Crescent Hawk Watch, a raptor conservation group in Michigan.

First Wind has followed that ethic in New England, said Ted Koffman, executive director of Maine Audubon, a nonprofit wildlife conservation group that has monitored large wind developments for more than a decade.

Leading conservation group WWF Scotland has welcomed the findings ahead of billionaire developer Donald Trump's appearance before Scottish MSPs who are looking into a proposed wind farm.

The effort was led by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading U.S. bird conservation group; Fundación ProAves, one of the leading conservation groups in Colombia; and Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez, a Colombian organization that focuses on community, youth, and environmental projects.

Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, the conservation group that launched legal action to get Pacific walruses listed in 2008, told Earther that the agency's claim that walruses will adapt to climate change «is baseless, and simply doesn't match the science showing that walruses are being harmed by the devastating loss of their sea ice habitat.»

For example, suppose a conservation group is interested in saving the tremendous fish diversity in the great Mekong River where several new dams are under consideration for hydroelectric power.

I looked into the tale of the laid - off rodent as part of my undergraduate thesis focused on the transition at the conservation group from traditional communication efforts relying on coverage in newspapers or television networks to mastering social media.

Here's some input from Steven Amstrup, who became chief scientist for the conservation group Polar Bear International this year after decades spent studying polar bears for the United States Geological Survey.

Here's an update on that campaign and a look at how such an unlikely strategy — relying on a video channel created less than 10 years ago — emerged from a conservation group founded in 1895.

Through some Facebook discussions after my vaquita post, I was put in touch with Christine Rose, who leads Maui's and Hector's Dolphin Defenders, a New Zealand conservation group.

(Last fall, she joined the «Say No» campaign run by the conservation group WildAid aimed at cutting demand for ivory and rhinoceros horn.)

The shipments are part of a growing international trade in whale and whale products — Japan is by far the dominant buyer — that has prompted growing criticism from the conservation group and other whale campaigners.

Early this week I was sent an encouraging update from a conservation group on the status in the Hawaiian Islands of the short - tailed albatross, a remarkable ocean - roaming bird that once numbered in the millions but, devastated by the feather trade and other impacts, nearly vanished early in the 20th century.

With the help of the conservation group WildAid, he paid a fresh visit to the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage abutting Nairobi National Park in Kenya.

After rescuing the world's only known albino orangutan from a cage, a conservation group in Indonesia is hoping to build a special reserve for her.

Andre Tosumba, director of a Congolese conservation group called ACOPRIK, educating villagers about bonobos.

The Center for Biological Diversity, a conservation group, expressed disappointment with the decision to drop the boa from the list:

(The winning $ 650,000 bid, from the online gambling company Golden Palace, resulted in the Latin name Callicebus aureipalatii — the golden palace monkey; the money covers park security costs, according to the conservation group.)

Before that, he worked with a conservation group called Native Seeds / SEARCH as its Director of Foundation Giving & Venture Philanthropy, and prior to that, as its Development Director.

The conservation group says it's happy to have the tests run.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Japanese whalers traded charges over the bullet that the conservation group says ended up in the Kevlar vest of Paul Watson, its founder, when the group's ship tangled with a whaling vessel on Friday.

«I think that Curaçao has been really lucky so far,» we were told by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist who did her doctoral research on fishing practices around coral reefs on the island and now runs the Waitt Institute, a conservation group helping Caribbean islands develop «Blue Halo» marine zoning plans designed to allow communities to «use the ocean without using it up.»

A conservator at work for Fine Art Conservation Group.

Suyeon Kim, peering through a microscope at a 16th - century painting by Marcello Venusti, is a cofounder of the Fine Art Conservation Group in New York, which specializes in the care and repair of art in different mediums.

One thing led to another and we met this ocean conservation group, Parley for the Oceans.

Wentworth Woodhouse Sold to Conservation Group for # 7 million Italy to Create 10 New Museums Art Dealer Eric Spoutz Arrested in Connection with Fakes The Fitzwilliam at 200 Britain's Worst Public Art

Bells Beach is the inspiration for a local conservation group named Surfers Appreciating the Natural Environment, formed in 1988 by surfers concerned about the effect or tourism on the Bells Beach Surfing Reserve.

The Reserve is managed by the Women's Conservation Group.

Luckily one of the guys was working on a turtle conservation group, so we went to Cayenne beach looking for turtles.

Education of the Youth Conservation Group.

In my second year of uni, I went to Costa Rica as a part of a leatherback turtle conservation group.

Rainsong Wildlife Sanctuary ---- Local conservation group that sells seedlings of rare and endangered hardwood trees that are indigenous to the area.

By Victoria Vaughan JURONG BirdPark has joined forces with conservation group Begawan Foundation and the Cologne Zoo in Germany to help rescue the Bali mynah from the jaws of extinction.

The «Gray Whale Ranch» had been zoned only for logging but was considered for further development before the Save - the - Redwoods League, a private conservation group, bought the land in 1996 for $ 13.4 million and transferred it to the State Parks Department.

If you have a rare or endangered species, contact a conservation group or zoological society to ensure that the bird is placed in a bona fide conservation program.

American Bird Conservancy was born in 1994, based on the need our founder, George Fenwick, saw for a fearless bird conservation group — one that wasn't afraid to take on difficult issues like free - roaming cats and pesticides.

Is an advocate and cofounder of the White Cloud Council, an environmental conservation group.

Following his MSc he joined the Fisheries and Conservation Group at Bangor University as a Sea - going Scientist (2013).

«It's not just a case of maintaining our own capacities,» stresses Judy Oglethorpe of conservation group WWF in Washington DC, who organised the session on HIV at the meeting.

A more precise estimate of the antelope's range would help to target conservation efforts, says Nicholas Wilkinson, a Vietnam - based wildlife ecologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is working with the conservation group WWF.

«It gives a positive signal to would - be buyers and the chain of criminals involved in the trade,» says elephant behaviorist Joyce Poole, who co-directs ElephantVoices, a conservation group in Nairobi.

In 1997, Erik Meijaard, a co-author of the paper and a biologist with Borneo Futures, a conservation group based in Bandar Seri Begawan, led a team that followed up on a 1935 report by a colonial - era zoologist.

The thriving wetlands will provide a buffer for the Great Barrier Reef, says Niall Connolly of Greening Australia, a conservation group helping with the restoration efforts.