Sentences with phrase «conservation group called»

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

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.

Animals Australia is joining tireless advocates Colin Riddell and Bob Irwin in a Coalition of 28 animal welfare and conservation groups calling on the Federal Government to ban the hunting of all endangered and vulnerable native species.

Not exact matches

A few months before the IRS announcement, Frank Schuler had formed the rival advocacy group Keller had contemplated, calling it the Partnership for Conservation («permanently conserving important lands in the U.S.»).

Few conservation groups reacted to Interior's announcement Tuesday, although several had called the unprecedented lease sale «a terrible idea» when Zinke first discussed it this spring.

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.

Three elected officials joined an environmental group Monday in calling on the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation to revoke or suspend an essential permit for a natural gas power plant in Orange County.

A New York environmental group is calling for increased water infrastructure and staff funding at the state's Department of Environmental Conservation.

Pramilla Malick, leader of an Orange County citizens group that has fought the power plant, called the FERC official's decision «an unprecedented abuse of process and law,» and urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Basil Seggos, the state's environmental conservation commissioner, «to use the police powers of the state to protect our water and prevent any construction activity.»

Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens caused a stir among pro- and anti-fracking groups when he issued a statement saying that he was rejecting calls for an independent health analysis of the potential impacts of the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking.

Called «Mesa del Mar,» and organized largely by the islanders, one of the group's most ambitious proposals is the establishment of a formal conservation area around the island in conjunction with the Chilean government.

Emily Darling, a marine conservation scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, an environmental group in New York, calls the studyconservation scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, an environmental group in New York, calls the studyConservation Society, an environmental group in New York, calls the study impressive.

In a richly illustrated, 400 - page tome, Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, published by Oxford University Press, the groups present what conservation biologist Peter Kareiva of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls «the most extraordinary assemblage of biodiversity data ever published.»

The plan was also welcomed by the conservation group Oceana, which nevertheless called for more action.

But a new paper in the journal Conservation Biology calls out a troubling side effect: Some tags can be accessed by people who don't have the animals» best interests at heart, from hunters and poachers to antipredator groups and even nature tourists.

Identifying climate - resistant reefs, called «Reefs of Hope,» is a high priority among conservation groups as corals are collapsing globally due to higher water temperatures.

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.

Zinke has called for the full and permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a program created to protect and purchase public lands and embraced by green groups.

A group called Working Dogs for Conservation, use canines to sniff out animal and plant populations so researchers can monitor and preserve them — an eco-variation on drug - and bomb - sniffing dogs.

The proposal calls on these volunteer groups to meet quarterly and share ideas, plan projects and devise better strategies for conservation and acquisition of natural areas.

It is hardly what anyone would call charismatic megafauna, so it doesn't spark big campaigns by wildlife conservation groups.

Instead, the fishermen are acting after watching environmental conservation groups petition to add many more species to the endangered list in recent years, like dozens of corals, seven different damselfish and a rare dolphin called a false killer whale, said Philip Fernandez, the coalition's president.

A group calling itself «Save our AZ Solar», backed by SolarCity, the League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club, has contributed $ 2.4 million to the races.

A group of five «flat Earther» Republican candidates who rejected the climate science were targeted by a group called the League of Conservation Voters, which said it spent $ 3 million campaigning against them.

«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.

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.»

But as Tania Lown - Hecht, communications director of the Outdoor Alliance, a nonprofit public lands conservation group, points out, calling the GOP plan a «transfer» is a misnomer.

(06/02/2010) Radical, controversial, ahead - of - his - time, brilliant, or extremist: call Dr. Glen Barry, the head of Ecological Internet, what you will, but there is no question that his environmental advocacy group has achieved major successes in the past years, even if many of these are below the radar of big conservation groups and mainstream media.

Greenpeace, which warns of an imminent «climate bomb» due to the destruction of rich forests and peat bogs that currently serve as a massive carbon sink, reports groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and Flora and Fauna International have joined them in calling for an end to the conversion of forests to croplands for the production of biofuels

Greenpeace, which is among a number of conservation groups and governments pushing for expanded marine reserves in the Southern Ocean, is calling on krill - buying companies to stop purchasing catch from vessels that fish in areas that are currently under consideration for protection by the CCAMLR.

More about big cats: Looking at the Bright Side of the Capture and Death of Rare Snow Leopard Conservation Groups Need to be Held Accountable for Tiger Protection World Bank Calls for the Closure of Tiger Farms Cheetah's Return in the Cards for India?

On Wednesday, sportsmen's groups including Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership will join the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus and environmental groups to call for Congress to pass global warming legislation that includes increased funding for natural resource protection.

You may have read how a bit over a week ago a number of environmental groups were calling on the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) to cut quota levels for bluefin tuna to protect that species from overfishing and collapse.

The Pew Environment Group calls on all countries, territories, and entities to improve shark conservation and management by acting now to end unmanaged and unsustainable shark fishing and to regulate trade in threatened sharks.

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.