Sentences with phrase «conservation status of»

Last month the International Union for Conservation of Nature — better known as IUCN — released an update on the conservation status of the world's lemurs.

The president affirmed that «Iceland's actions threaten the conservation status of an endangered species and undermine multilateral efforts to ensure greater worldwide protection for whales.»

Just keep reminding yourself that all the hype has very little to do with the conservation status of polar bears and virtually everything to do with the survival of the IUCN PBSG as an organization and the economic future of polar bear biologists and their ever - growing crop of students.»

Despite the challenges imposed not only by the old and slightly ropey fabric, but also the conservation status of the buildings, the client wanted to carry as many of the benefits of passive house design as possible through to the retrofit.

Iceland's actions threaten the conservation status of an endangered species and undermine multilateral efforts to ensure greater worldwide protection for whales.

This expansion will enhance the protection of the property as a world heritage site and improve the conservation status of the mountain.

As stated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species, the northern elephant seal has recovered from near extinction and population growth and is expected to continue over the coming decades.

The emotive argument that we need to eradicate all cats and make owning one illegal because they kill native birds like sulphur crested cockatoos, rainbow lorikeets, galahs, eastern rosellas and noisy miner birds falls to the ground when you know the conservation status of all these birds is least concern.

There are summary tables indicating the number of genera and species within the order; the distinctions in size, habitat, and global range; social behavior; common characteristics; and the conservation status of particular members of the order.

Special attention is paid to conservation status of species within each group.

The conservation status of sockeye populations in Canada is under review by Fisheries and Oceans Canada as part of its Wild Salmon Policy strategy to standardize monitoring of wild salmon status.

Although not readily visible to the casual observer on Andros Island amid an abundance of natural resources including a wide range of beautiful flora and fauna species, fresh water springs, dense woodlands with chestnut and poplar trees along with a preserved cultural identity including the presence of ancient water mills surrounded by an azure blue sea, there are nevertheless some natural threats and threats from anthropogenic activities associated with the island's continuing growth that adversely impact the conservation status of the project's targeted species.

It will focus on a representative degraded ecosystem surrounded by protected areas and carry out measures to improve habitats as well as to enhance the conservation status of 47 targeted flora and fauna species.

«With now four distinct species, the conservation status of each of these can be better defined and in turn added to the IUCN Red List,» Fennessy said in a statement, referring to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which recently submitted a proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List, taking into consideration the animal's rapid decline over the last 30 years.

Shark populations are declining globally, and scientists lack data to estimate the conservation status of populations for many shark species.

BirdLife has used the checklist to compile the 2014 International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, a comprehensive global inventory of the conservation status of species.

Scientists scored each watershed based on three characteristics: the number of species it contained, the conservation status of those species and how widespread each species was.

Despite that most species are found within a protected area, there is concern for the conservation status of some of them as the Colombian Andes and Chocó have alarming rates of deforestation and transformation, sometimes even within areas set aside for conservation, like the one where this rare species were collected.

Meanwhile, the conservation status of native Australian bees is largely unknown because solid baseline data are unavailable and about one third of the species are as yet unknown to science.

[Hans ter Steege et al, Estimating the global conservation status of over 15,000 Amazonian tree species]

The ZooKeys article describes the first study of the behavior, diet, and conservation status of this flying fox, finding that the Mortlock Islands support a small population of 900 to 1200 bats scattered across a land surface of only 12 km2 (4.6 square miles).

«We have shown that, on the face of it, there are indeed far fewer marine species of conservation concern; but much of this can be explained by the fact the conservation status of fewer marine species has been formally assessed.»

They also used the conservation status of modern mammals to model diversity and body size distributions for 200 years in the future.

«We also wanted to learn more about the conservation status of these wonderful animals,» said Danny Balete, a Research Associate at the Field Museum who is based in the Philippines.

In the European Union, among assessments of the conservation status of species and habitat types of conservation interest, only 7 % of marine species and 9 % of marine habitat types show a «favourable conservation status».

In their paper, the team of scientists from the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Smithsonian Institution (both USA), and the University of Göttingen, Germany, also raise concerns on the conservation status of this unique tree which is severely limited to a 1.5 km2 area of occupancy on Kaua`i.

This gorgeous book, which includes the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and recent surprising discoveries of field scientists, will convince you that the elephant is one of nature's greatest and most original works.

In 1964, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) began tracking the conservation status of species on its «Red List.»

Meyer D, Momberg F, Matauschek C, Oswald P, Lwin N, Aung SS, Yang Y, Xiao W, Long Y - C, Grueter CC, Roos C. (2017): Conservation Status of the Myanmar or Black Snub - nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus strykeri.

Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, known threats, and so on.

The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future.

Ahead of a key international meeting on tuna catches, an assessment is painting a bleak picture of the conservation status of some of the world's most commercially valuable fish species.

«It's not something they like to broadcast,» she adds, because of the conservation status of sharks.

Not exact matches

The interest in conservation of Henry J. Romney, Assistant to the Managing Editor, is also lifelong, and during the past six months he has climaxed it with an intense study of conservation's current status.

The report, released this week, is the third in the respected conservation organization's State of the Birds series, which monitors the status of birdlife in Massachusetts.

«Department of Environmental Conservation is currently reviewing the Thruway Authority's Nov. 16 request for lead agency status on the Pilgrim Transportation of New York... application for pipeline construction,» state Department of Environmental Conservation press representative wrote.

Environmental groups fretted over the status of «forever wild» conservation requirements in the constitution for protected lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills.

The state Thruway Authority and Department of Environmental Conservation in December announced that they will share «lead agency» status in reviewing the portion of the pipelines that will be in New York, largely along the Thruway corridor.

Most recently, the Public Safety and General Government Committee of the Kingston Common Council and the Kingston Conservation Advisory Committee voted on resolutions calling on DEC to assume lead agency status.

UCN Red List of Threatened Species is the best - known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system.

The study's results currently are used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservaConservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservationconservation status.

Although the IUCN provides information only about the status of species, this is the first step in helping to limit extinction because it allows conservation efforts to be directed where they're most needed.

Not enough is known about the Antarctic minke for its conservation status to be classified on the Red List of Threatened Species maintained by the International Union for Conservatioconservation status to be classified on the Red List of Threatened Species maintained by the International Union for ConservationConservation of Nature.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is now assessing the status of flooded drilling sites.

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.»

9 %: of the assessment of EU marine habitats of conservation interest have shown favourable conservation status; 66 % have shown unfavourable conservation status

7 %: of the assessments of EU marine species of conservation interest have shown favourable conservation status; 27 % have shown unfavourable conservation status

73 %: percentage of assessments of EU freshwater habitats of conservation interest indicating unfavourable conservation status

Today at its quadrennial congress in Barcelona, Spain, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its long - awaited database detailing the status of all mammals known to humankind since the year 1500.

Not being a recognisable species could lose the red wolf its conservation status, despite being the only carrier of genes from extinct southern grey wolves