Sentences with phrase «conservation measure which»

The fasting level of glucose utilization is likely to be suboptimal for health: fasting invokes glucose - and - protein - conservation measures which evolved to make us more likely to survive famine, but almost certainly have a cost in long - term health.

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Merryvale Vineyards participates in the voluntary Napa Green certification program, which includes conservation, recycling, erosion control and pollution prevention measures.

The skipjack population in this area is managed by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), and in many areas, the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), which have put in place conservation measures to help prevent overfishing.

The measure, which in government terms is labeled a conservation easement, would allow the district to purchase from the golf course development rights for the private club's 113 acres.

«Taken together, these results suggest that production forests in the tropics need to reconsider the scale at which logging intensity is regulated, and put in place measures that further incentivise land sparing to enhance biodiversity conservation.»

Similarly, Noether's theorem shows that symmetry under rotation, or rotational invariance, leads to the conservation of angular momentum, which measures how much an object is rotating.

Conservation scientists need to collaborate with space agencies, such as NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodiversity declines around the world.

Information on animal colour drawings can be used in conservation biology to identify which species are particularly threatened and in need of protective measures.

However, research in Conservation Letters asks if these measures are repeating the mistakes of the «War on Drugs» as they lack a long - term strategy to tackle the growing wealth gap between African areas of supply and Asian centers of demand, which remains a central dynamic to the problem..

The idea is to reproduce the naturally occurring bacterial isolates and then administer them directly onto specimens» skin, a solution which project lead Doug Woodhams at the University of Massachusetts, Boston calls «proactive conservation measures.»

Actions to reduce the impact of the chimps must be carefully measured to balance the conservation of the important habitat in which they live, while protecting the lives and livelihoods of local people.

In August 2007, the journal Science published the results of a study * which concluded that the trans - national conservation measures required to be implemented by European Member States under the EU Birds Directive have made a significant contribution to reverse the population decline and provide protection for many of Europe's most threatened bird species.

Briefly, an extreme low - carb diet can create a glucose deficiency, especially if endurance exercise or infection increases glucose requirements, and glucose deficiency invokes the body's glucose conservation measures, which primarily consist of lower T3 and higher rT3 hormone levels — two hormonal markers of euthyroid sick syndrome.

In the past twenty five years we have mainly focused on the conservation of resources, which is comparatively easy to measure.

Each project has a series of species, habitat and economic milestones against which progress to the planned conservation outcomes are measured.

Richard Hassell speaks of this eco-friendly project...» We are very pleased that Alila Hotels have embraced the Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) principles, and we are using many ESD measures including local materials, water conservation with soaks and rain gardens and recycling with grey water systems, using local plants from the special Bali Savannah ecosystem on the Bukit, which are being raised in a nursery on site to encourage local bird and animal life, heat pumps for water heating, salt water pools — among many others.

Particularly troubling, the researchers said, were patterns indicating a lack of mature females, which are essential if populations are to recover even with new conservation measures.

Further, the conservation measures currently being highlighted by National Geographic's Big Cat Initiative and Panthera's Project Leonardo are minuscule compared to the scale of the problem and it's not clear they could ever do anything effective to conserve an area as large as the Selous (which is the size of Switzerland).

Countries develop a «baseline» that estimates the current amount of emissions from a forest region, against which conservation progress can be measured

Congressman John Sarbanes» (D - MD - 3) passion for the Chesapeake Bay habitat inspired the passing of H.R. 1650, which enhanced the protection of the Chesapeake Bay through programs that foster science and education, as well as other conservation measures.

In fact, the main duty of the IWC is to keep under review — and revise as necessary — the measures laid down in the Schedule to the Convention, which govern conservation and whaling throughout the world.

Building upon proposed federally mandated protections, the Conservation Law Foundation (CLF), the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), working together with Deepwater Wind, Energy Management, Inc. (owner of Cape Wind in Massachusetts) and NRG Bluewater Wind, have drafted a set of protective measures that these developers will voluntarily implement over the next four years in areas designated by the administration as Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Areas, which stretch from New Jersey to Virginia (map available here: http://on.doi.gov/UWoNPF).

Between July and September 2015 — the only period for which researchers could get overlapping water and energy data — they found that the water conservation measures resulted in a savings of 460 gigawatt hours (GWh).

This document provides wildlife and conservation biologists with a technical summary that they can use as an information resource for assessing the vulnerability of Maine's wildlife habitats, plant communities and species to climate change, which will aid in the development of effective adaptation measures.

Bhutan is unique for its policy of Gross National Happiness, a measure which balances economic growth with environmental conservation and the wellbeing of its people.

«But if we don't — there's a guy down the hall, I never knew what he did, I mean, he's a chemist and I don't talk to chemists, and then he came and he gave a lecture to our conservation course this summer about the standardization of the pH of the surface ocean globally, which he's in charge of, and they measured a 0.1 decrease in pH and it's exactly what they're expecting from the increase in CO2, and you can plot the graph and you know when you're going to get there.»

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