Sentences with phrase «conservation group based»

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.

At least 24 species of other presumed or possibly extinct plants, insects and other organisms have been found during natural heritage surveys in North America since 1974, according to Mark Schaefer, president of NatureServe, a nonprofit conservation group based in Arlington, Va..

ST. PETERSBURG — Tampa Bay Watch, the conservation group based in Tierra Verde, will operate an outpost at the new Pier.In a unanimous vote, City Council members voted Thursday to give the nonprofit organization a five - year lease to offer marine edu...

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An agreement recently reached between Jensen Meat and the Montana - based nonprofit organization American Prairie Reserve (APR) will help support the group's wildlife - friendly ranching and conservation efforts while also giving the company access to domestic, naturally raised and grass - fed beef.

This is how Miguel Angel Figueroa, the founder of the Huahuatenango - based conservation group ASOCUCH describes himself.

The grant, issued through the state's Conservation 2000 program, enabled the district to acquire the land along Butterfield Creek and adjacent to Spirit Trail Park for $ 216,000 from CorLands, a Chicago - based environmental group.

Officials with the Trust for Public Land, a San Francisco - based, non-profit conservation group, announced they have bought a half - acre lot in the 2700 block of West Fullerton Avenue, across the street from Haas Park.

Land trusts are typically community - based nonprofit groups that protect land by acquiring the land outright, or by entering into legal agreements called conservation restrictions, where landowners do not give up ownership, but instead agree to reduce the development potential of their land, generally in return for cash payment, tax advantages, or both.

UPDATED: Apparently, this endorsement has caused a dust - up on Long Island, where a loal group — the Long Island Environmental Voters Forum — slammed the «Manhattan - based New York League of Conservation Voters» for its support of Martins.

Also at 11 a.m., a broad - based group of environmental, anti-fracking and conservation organizations hold a press conference to explain why they are urging New Yorkers to vote «no» on the constitutional convention referendum, LCA Press Room, Legislative Office Building, Albany.

«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.

A coalition of U.S. and Mexican conservation groups, Raise the River, is raising money to purchase and lease the additional water rights required to ensure base flow in the future.

«It's a large feast table of eggs that would never have hatched,» says Glenn Gauvry, director of Ecological Research & Development Group Inc., a wildlife conservation organization based in Milton, Delaware.

A research group led by the American Museum of Natural History and global wild cat conservation organization Panthera has published the largest gene - based survey of its kind on wild jaguar populations in Mesoamerica.

And the Marine Conservation Alliance, a Juneau - based fishing industry group, agrees that the area should be closed.

Morocco's decision to halt the project comes in the wake of a campaign coordinated by the Bellerive Foundation, a Geneva - based conservation group that opposes captive breeding of seals.

«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

«It's a very charismatic animal,» says Annemarieke Spitzen - van der Sluijs, a conservation biologist with Reptile, Amphibian & Fish Conservation Netherlands (RAVON), a nonprofit group based conservation biologist with Reptile, Amphibian & Fish Conservation Netherlands (RAVON), a nonprofit group based Conservation Netherlands (RAVON), a nonprofit group based in Nijmegen.

Unchecked development, thousands of invasive species, climate change, and reduced budgets and staff all threaten America's national parks, says a decade - long study released earlier this week by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group.

«They're constantly following the rain patterns,» explains Scott Wilbor, conservation science director for the Sky Islands Alliance, a Tucson - based group.

The maps were based on data from eBird, a joint venture of Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, and BirdLife, an international network of conservation groups.

US - based groups such as EDF, The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International this week backed airlines» plans to join REDD, calling forest conservation «essential» to meeting aviatConservation International this week backed airlines» plans to join REDD, calling forest conservation «essential» to meeting aviatconservation «essential» to meeting aviation targets.

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.

The International Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group identifies priority research areas, synthesizes current and emerging blue carbon research and provides the robust scientific basis for coastal carbon conservation, management and assessment.

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.

A safe and quiet stop for the traveller and an ideal base for a group of four to tour the Flinders Ranges or discover the surprises of Nectarbrook, the local beaches and the adjacent national and conservation parks.

The Caring Together Club is a group of individuals who support science - based animal advocacy, and wish to learn more about the research and conservation efforts being done by Georgia Aquarium and its partners.

Wildlife Connection, an eco tour group based in Marina Vallarta, offers an evening tour to turtle camps in Riviera Nayarit where visitors can participate in the release of baby turtles and complete their experience with an educational lecture about the fascinating world of sea turtles and their conservation.

Cramp is now the program manager for the Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, a nonprofit environmental group based in the Cook Islands:

Forest Trends is a Washington D.C. - based international non-profit organization that was created in 1999 by leaders from conservation organizations, forest products firms, research groups, multilateral development banks, private investment funds and philanthropic foundations.

This group recognized the respective contributions and limits of their own institutions and decided to create a new organization — Forest Trends — to expand this work of bridging traditional divides and promoting market - based approaches to forest conservation.

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.

She has organized and managed education and advocacy programs dealing with a wide range of energy and environmental issues, such as high level nuclear waste legislation, director of a solar installers» training and energy conservation installation program, coordination for numerous state, local and national conferences / strategy workshops, and has assisted community - based groups in establishing job - training / energy rehabilitation programs.

The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C. - based forest conservation group, could boost the efforts of indigenous groups seeking compensation for preserving forest on their lands, effectively paving the way for large - scale indigenous - led conservation of the Amazon rainforest.

As they succumb, they just fall in heaps at the base of trees,» said Louise Saunders, president of the Queensland animal welfare group Bat Conservation and Rescue.

«Curious albatross chicks are ingesting the lead - based paint chips, which causes a variety of painful ailments and ultimately, a slow death,» said Dr. Jessica Hardesty Norris, Seabird Program director with the national bird conservation group.

Counting only leaks that utilities have documented, it would represent about $ 40 million worth of gas, according to an analysis by the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based legal advocacy group.

Along with numerous organizations eager to promote market — based mechanisms like carbon trading, there also are conservation groups at the congress who are working closely with businesses to help them avoid grave environmental errors, such as encroaching on the most vulnerable parts of the planet.

Global Director of IUCN's Nature based Solutions Group Stewart Maginnis said, «SFI's work on measuring conservation values in working forests will be an important contribution to the delivery of global conservation and nature - based solutions.»

Noor Hidayat, the Director of Conservation Areas at the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry calls the agreement «a broad based effort involving local and national government officials, financial institutions, NGOs, and communities,» and says that all of these groups must work together to make this commitment a reality.

Since 2008 I have been leading weeklong ecotourism groups to Midway for the Oceanic Society, a marine conservation organization based outside San Francisco.