Sentences with phrase «conservation group who»

Dr Jepson's view contrasts with that held by the leading conservation groups who pressed governments worldwide to make illegal wildlife trade a more serious crime at the 2014 London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade.

That line was used on conservation groups who were insisting on more comprehensive raptor surveys before approval of the Columbia Gorge windfarm I mentioned earlier.

Not exact matches

He is Vic Yannacone (right), fiery attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, the nation's most militant conservation group, and he hauls into court those who wantonly defile our habitat

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Advocacy groups including No Labels, the National Resources Defense Council and Washington Conservation Voters are current clients, according to Myers, who has also been pitching the service to sitting members of Congress.

Geoffrey Clifton - Brown MP, Chairman of the All - Party Parliamentary Group for Shooting and Conservation, who worked extensively with the Home Office on this issue said: «I want to congratulate the Home Office on a job well done.

The UK is particularly successful in bringing together shooting and conservation and BASC's head of biodiversity, Ian Danby, who represents UK shooters on the working group and hosted meeting said; «The working group draws together fantastic expertise on conservation and shooting across Europe, from Greece to Finland and many countries in - between.

The New York League of Conservation Voters, which has steadily increased its political spending in recent years, this morning sent an email to members of the Assembly who it backed in the last election cycle, reminding them that this issue is the group's «top priority for the 2015 session, and as you may recall this was specifically communicated to you in 2014 when you applied for NYLCV's endorsement.»

The preservation of Plum Island will depend in large part on support from community members who oppose the federal government's plans to sell it to the highest bidder, said Chris Cryder, special projects coordinator of the bi-coastal conservation group Save the Sound.

«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.

«We think the meat is more tasty that way,» explains Cun «Angela» Yan Fang, who went from guiding Western tourists as a local Naxi to guiding her fellow locals through the biogas technology and environmental conservation promoted by Western environmental groups such as the Nature Conservancy and Rare.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The trend has raised alarm bells among conservation groups and global warming advocates, who have banded together to press the Indonesian government toward reforms.

Representatives of conservation groups, who periodically fly over the refuge and take photos, allege that American agents cause most of the damage on the refuge.

«The key takeaway is that there is a group of people who really care about water but have room for improvement in their landscape water conservation practices,» Warner said.

«We estimated that over 28 thousand lemurs are kept illegally as pets in Malagasy cities over the last three years alone,» said Reuter, who has recently been appointed to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group.

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.

«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.

«They're terrible looking» when they first wash up, says Bob Prescott, director of the conservation group Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts, who is coordinating the recovery of stranded turtles from the beaches.

Helmut Brucher, who is a member of the German Conservation Association and the Euro - group Against Bird Crime, placed the birds in a temporary home in Germany while deciding where they could be set free.

«The results are disturbing because they suggest narwhals aren't physiologically equipped to sustain, in good health, repeated exposure to stressful events,» says Randall Reeves, a marine mammal expert in Hudson, Canada, who chairs the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Cetacean Specialist Group.

Strict legal frameworks would need to be adopted by nations, says Jean - Christophe Vié, deputy chair of the species survival group at the International Union for the Conservation of nature (IUCN), who was not involved with the proposal.

«This is something we've definitely been concerned about,» says ecologist Lee Hannah of Conservation International, who has studied climate paths in South Africa and Mexico and is part of the managed relocation working group.

In addition, Cindy Dohner, FWS southeast regional director, said that the agency will improve communication with landowners who object to the wolves and establish a stakeholder forum to work with state, landowners, and conservation groups.

«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.

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.

Colla, who is active with bumblebee conservation groups, noted that unlike with animals that shift north or to higher elevations, the ranges for bumblebees are simply shrinking.

«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.

«Now we know we have four distinct species, that makes it easier for conservation groups to convince African governments and other larger conservation groups to make a point that these giraffes need to be protected,» Janke, who conducted the new research, told The Christian Science Monitor.

The State effort was opposed by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading bird conservation organization; Audubon Florida; Florida Defenders of Wildlife, a leading Florida wildlife advocacy group; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (who described the bill as a disaster for cats), and by the Florida Veterinary Medical Association.

Additional technical expertise was provided by staff from government agencies, conservation groups and scientists, who were not formal members of the JWG but contributed to the process.

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.

Screening of the film «Audubon» will be introducing the life of John James Audubon to a group of individuals who have an appreciation of birds, nature, conservation and American history.

LightHawk is an international group of volunteer pilots who donate their time to foster conservation efforts.

«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.»

I received the following dispatch earlier today from Susan Lieberman, who's attending the meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or ICCAT, as an observer for the Pew Environment Group:

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.

So this includes groups like the Nature Conservancy, who accounts for about 20 % of all spending, and basically buys land for conservation.

The «park» set up on Broadway on Friday was created by a group of architecture students, Green Builders at Columbia, to provide a bit of relief from vistas normally dominated by asphalt and vehicles, said Eleonora Encheva, a former club president who was there with several colleagues to chat with passersby about open space, traffic and also water conservation.

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.

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.

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.

«Our coalition of environmental, conservation, public health and civil rights groups has achieved a milestone that few thought possible,» says my colleague Verena Owen, a veteran volunteer leader who co-leads the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.

... when they're exonerated by a panel of scientists who are NOT connected to renewable energy sources, environmentalist groups, conservation movements, carbon trading etc..

In my experience (and that of many many folk I know who volunteer their time in the name of environmental causes and the conservation of significant ecological heritage), the clout and $ $ $ $ wielded by Big Business and environmental lobby groups is simply not even on the same scale, let alone comparable.

Lee Crockett, who directs Atlantic bluefin tuna conservation for the Pew Environment Group, released the following statement in response to a request by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) for proposals to develop an electronic bluefin catch documentaconservation for the Pew Environment Group, released the following statement in response to a request by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) for proposals to develop an electronic bluefin catch documentaConservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) for proposals to develop an electronic bluefin catch documentation system.

Dr. Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist who heads the Amazon Conservation Team, a group that works with tribes to protect rainforests in Suriname, Colombia, and Brazil, agrees.

Everyone is having trouble keeping a straight face over this lot, and some environmental groups (old sooks who kinda remember about conservation) are starting to buck.

While corporations and large landowners have ever - increasing capacity to deforest, the recent shift seems to offer new opportunities for rainforest conservation in that it is easier for pressure groups to target corporations and enterprises rather than tens of millions of poor farmers who are simply trying to put food on the table for their families.