Sentences with phrase «conservation management efforts»

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This project also complements a related effort, also funded by the Foundation for MetroWest, by Massachusetts Rivers Alliance and the Charles River Watershed Association to improve the state's drought management plan and promote better water conservation.

Data gathered by the teens will directly aid management and conservation efforts for a number of aquatic species.

Erin Crotty, acting commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation said, «The closure of Fresh Kills not only marks the culmination of years of effort to bring the state into the age of modern solid waste management practices, but presents a tremendous opportunity to turn this blighted landscape into an environmental success story.»

«This data will be used as a predictive management tool to inform conservation efforts to restore condor populations, particularly with regard to emerging threats such as climate change and wind energy impacts,» added Sheppard

Meanwhile, an independent evaluation of the red wolf program released in November 2014 by the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) questioned whether the conservation effort can succeed.

East of the Missouri River, where efforts have been specifically targeted toward waterfowl conservation, lands under conservation management were more likely than other locations to be used by Whooping Cranes.

The new database «is the most valuable effort to date to summarize the state of conservation and threats to the world's mammal populations,» says mammalogist Don Wilson of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «By detailing threats at the species level, it will now be possible for management agencies in every country in the world to prioritize their efforts to try to mitigate these threats.»

Conservation dollars are limited, however, and it is important that invasive mammal management efforts be focused on the islands where they will go the furthest toward conserving native island biodiversity.

These new observations could help shape conservation and resource management efforts, and inform public safety measures, Holland said.

«The work discussed at today's press conference is emblematic of the many ways in which satellite remote sensing supports our efforts at natural resource management and wildlife conservation,» said Woody Turner, program scientist for NASA's Biological Diversity Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

The researchers suggest that managers use the findings to help guide the dune conservation and restoration efforts, carefully considering their management priorities.

«This study will lead to better predictions of when and where rivers transport sediment, and to an understanding of how that sediment flow is affected by conservation and management efforts, such as the removal of dams,» Skog said.

When seeking clues to how well conservation efforts are working in the present, sometimes scientists look to the past — and there may be no better historical record than the forest surveys conducted in Missouri by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1800s.

The research, Time series analysis reveals synchrony and asynchrony between conflict management effort and increasing large grazing bird populations in northern Europe, was funded by the European Research Council's Horizon 2020 programme and is published in Conservation Letters.

«We hope the new study leads to greater conservation efforts and management plans customized to protect each individual species,» Thomas said.

«This is useful for land management and as a tool to help guide our conservation efforts.

Scientists believe that acknowledging salamanders as one of the main food sources in forest ecosystems could help drive conservation efforts and forest management.

As China accounts for almost one - fifth of global catch volume, it has made great efforts to carry out conservation and management of fisheries resources by adopting and practicing various measures over the past three decades.

The key message was that these technologies are not last resort, fringe efforts for species, but an expanding tool kit for aiding conservation at every stage of management.

Future work will entail: (1) further delineation of management actions and the social networks associated with them, (2) building and evaluating a working model using rapid prototype methods, (3) conducting futures analyses of associated landscapes, (4) continuing to foster collaborative effort, and (5) working one - on - one with managers to evaluate model and adaptive management applicability using such tools as LCMAP (Landscape Conservation Management and Analysimanagement actions and the social networks associated with them, (2) building and evaluating a working model using rapid prototype methods, (3) conducting futures analyses of associated landscapes, (4) continuing to foster collaborative effort, and (5) working one - on - one with managers to evaluate model and adaptive management applicability using such tools as LCMAP (Landscape Conservation Management and Analysimanagement applicability using such tools as LCMAP (Landscape Conservation Management and AnalysiManagement and Analysis Portal).

Assessing the components of adaptive capacity to improve conservation and management efforts under global change.

Understanding the interaction between all of those stressors is a daunting task, but it is a challenge that must be met to improve our conservation and management efforts.

More important, though, they ignore the fact that any feral cat management program is resource - intensive (as is any conservation effort, of course).

According to the Management Plan of the Sipacate - Naranjo National Park, El Paredon Surf Camp obeys and supports the efforts for the conservation of the Mangrove and all its biodiversity.

The NSWA represents the dive operators, and can therefore directly influence the management of the marine park, and promote conservation efforts and the interests of divers.

A fantastic sharing of skills as part of a common effort for the management and conservation of the living resources of the high seas: the first observations uncover Walters Bank as a remarkable ecosystem with a summit zone covered with coralligenous algae.

Other efforts will focus on adopting sustainable agricultural practices and restoring degraded lands abutting conservation areas to improve land use management and livelihoods.

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.

The USFWS justified lifting the 2014 ban by arguing that well - managed trophy hunting can benefit conservation «by generating funds to be used for protecting wildlife habitat, monitoring populations, wildlife management programs and law enforcement efforts».

The numbers need to be verified but an educated guess would possibly reveal that the increase in numbers was due to conservation efforts and management and the stories of decrease are likely centered around the ice loss which is likely already decreasing the increased number of polar bears.

Intergovernmental organizations [edit] Worldwide [edit] Regional [edit] Local governments [edit] ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Government organizations [edit] The governments of many countries have ministries or agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment: Non-governmental organizations [edit] These non-governmental organizations are involved in environmental management, lobbying, advocacy, and / or conservation efforts: Children's organizations [edit] Project Green Oman.

The meeting marks the 10 - year anniversary of the Pacific Coast Collaborative, a joint effort to drive energy innovation, sustainable resource management, and conservation of the Pacific Coast.

Doctoral students focus their efforts on research; current options include biodiversity conservation, hydrology, pollution management, tropical ecology, and water resource management — plus many others.

This effort, called «Conservation Impact,» will help conservationists understand the values associated with sustainable management, and provide assurance to stakeholders throughout the forest supply chain.

Indigenous people are fully supportive of land and biodiversity conservation and this is evidenced by the constant efforts of Indigenous people to engage in land management and caring for country initiatives.

While the impacts of climate change are potentially devastating for Indigenous communities, there are also opportunities to contribute to mitigation efforts and develop «culture based» economies in areas such as biodiversity conservation, land and water management and carbon sequestration.

I urge the Government to support conservation efforts of Traditional Owners through join - management of national park arrangements under ILUAs or State land rights regimes, and recognise these practices as eligible projects under the CFI.