Sentences with phrase «conservation groups»

We are actively involved with, and financially support, a variety of conservation groups.

Through the leadership and assistance we offer other conservation groups, we affect the conservation of more land than we ever even touch.

The principles were designed to provide common ground for conservation groups to work with other environmental movements and coffee businesses.

Perhaps due to the mounting pressure from bird conservation groups, they must feel the need to start doing some damage control.

While there are no simple solutions (of course there never are), people in «western conservation groups» are working on conservation issues in a humane way.

Through responsible travel and our partnership with local conservation groups, we are working hard to do our part to ensure they are protected and preserved for future generations.

Building this political will requires a strategic effort among ocean lovers, ocean conservation groups, and elected officials.

Many conservation groups are now interested in putting this historic food supply to use protecting historic buildings.

We offer support to local and national land conservation groups.

The dispute underscores the conflicts between conservation groups and renewable energy interests, such as the ongoing issue with wind turbine farms imposing dangers to birds.

He enjoys volunteering with several conservation groups and spending time outdoors.

A notice of intention to sue has been filed by a bird conservation group against a major wind power installation.

I'd love to take them at their word, but I thank conservation groups for continuing to test their commitment.

His multi award - winning film changed laws and public policy worldwide, created hundreds of conservation groups.

Several conservation groups have advocated creating sperm banks of rapidly declining species.

New research, backed by conservation groups in the UK, suggest solar farms may offer opportunities for a more biodiverse countryside.

Across the states where bushy sagebrush grows, public officials, helped by conservation groups such as the Nature Conservancy, have cut trees that invaded the once - treeless brush so that hawks and other birds that prey on the sage grouse can't perch on branches, eyeballing hens and chicks for a potential meal.

The amount of fish in the oceans has plunged to the «brink of collapse» caused by over-fishing and other threats, the WWF conservation group said

«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.

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..

Supported by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

The announcement of the new emissions trading bill was seen by conservation groups as a sign that the Bush administration's past policy toward global warming will be challenged, even under the Republican controlled Congress.

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

By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters)- Conservation groups on Friday hailed a court decision that blocks Montana from building roads and logging in nearly 37,000 acres of a state forest that serves as core habitat for protected grizzly bears.

Randall Arauz, founder of the non-profit conservation group Pretoma, has spearheaded the campaign against shark finning in Costa Rica for over a decade.

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.

For several years, leading conservation groups worked to set aside the Hol Chan area, off Ambergris Caye, as an underwater park.

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

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.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

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.

Experts from a wildlife conservation group say a dead whale that washed up on a New York beach was likely hit by a boat.

Created by industry leaders and prominent environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the AWS Standard is the first comprehensive global standard for measuring responsible water stewardship, not just in terms of environmental criteria, but also social and economic dimensions.

Sept. 26, 2012: A coalition of conservation groups files suit in Federal Court to force Ottawa to protect endangered and threatened species along the route of the proposed pipeline, including Pacific humpback whales.

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«We have been in touch with an Indonesian conservation group about setting up an array of camera traps in the area over a longer period,» Moore says, «to see if we can get a photograph.»

Earlier this month conservation group Oceana predicted that ocean acidification could lead to enormous economic losses, including damage to the coral reefs off the Hawaiian Islands that produce around $ 360 million in economic benefits each year, and harm to the $ 10 billion global shellfish - farming industry.

«It's not a plan unless you've mitigated the threats that wiped them out in the first place,» says Alan Rabinowitz, chief executive of the wild - cat conservation group Panthera in New York city.

Private conservation groups including the Kentucky Fish & Wildlife Foundation, International Crane Foundation and Operation Migration contributed the funds for the reward.

Conservation groups fear development will harm the animals, and scar sensitive ecosystems.

I loved how well World Diving were involved with the local conservation group who were a gold mine of information about the region.

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.

Alan Rabinowitz, president and CEO of Panthera (a nonprofit big cat conservation group), called the plan «nothing less than a slap in the face to good science» in a January op - ed in The New York Times shortly after the FWS first announced its earlier plans to designate an area for the big cats.

York Johnson, water quality coordinator with Oregon conservation group Tillamook Estuaries Partnership, which collected the water samples, said scientific models of ocean currents suggest that cesium 134 isotopes from Fukushima could reach Oregon's shores later this year in low levels.

Before representatives from more than 80 governments meet to consider a proposal to lift the 24 - year ban on commercial whaling, conservation groups including HSI released independent statistics showing how the current ban has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of whales.

Julia worked for 15 years representing grassroots conservation groups in the West.

The latest reports, from a coalition of turtle conservation groups and the Katala Foundation in Palawan, along with the anti-trafficking group Traffic, show how this has been playing out in a mass roundup and trafficking operation, with the turtles secreted by Chinese merchants in shipments of rattan bound for Hong Kong, where the turtles end up sold both as prized pets and a culinary delicacy.