Sentences with phrase «conservation success stories»

If it does, the European Green Belt, as proponents call it, will be one of the greatest conservation success stories of all time.

«With nearly 200 authors and 47 chapters, «Snow Leopards» covers a wide range of topics from ecology, threats, conservation success stories, new research tools and technologies and country status reports, concluding with an outlook for the species» future.

The rebound of white - tailed deer populations — over 20 million roam the U.S. today — is viewed as one of the nation's greatest conservation success stories.

The conservation success stories among these animals used as symbols and emblems offer some hope, which extends to less - known species too.

What looked like a classic conservation success story nearly ended in disaster.

«The Swainson's warbler is becoming a conservation success story in a habitat that was once feared to be a biological desert,» said Graves, curator of birds in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology.

«This year was an extraordinarily exciting year for green turtle nesting, breaking all previous records within the refuge and continuing the conservation success story for the species.

One example is the conservation success story of the recovery of the humpback whales that breed in both East and West Australian waters.

Helm's words have stuck with me: «We can consider this a big conservation success story.»

At its heart, however, this million - dollar conservation success story is being written the women of Uch Koshkon and more than 40 similar communities in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan.

Highlights include the Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Patan Durbar Squares (formerly royal kingdoms), the ancient Swayambhunath and Boudhanath Buddhist Stupas, Pashupatinath hindu temple, Lumbini (the birthplace of Buddha himself), and the conservation success story of the Chitwan national park.

The country has been a rare conservation success story in the past couple of years, and an estimated 534 greater one - horned rhinos remain in Nepal.

Conservation Status The bald eagle's recovery is a spectacular conservation success story.

The endangerment and subsequent protection of the California Gray Whale is considered a tremendous conservation success story.

The northern elephant seal is a conservation success story.

«Moving forward, we want to ensure that this remains a conservation success story,» Flowers said.

«Polar bears had recovered from previous decades of wanton over-hunting — by all measures used by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, they were a conservation success story.»

In Part 2, I documented how Parmesan hijacked the conservation success story of the Large Blue and the detailed conservation science of Jeremy Thomas in order to again blame global warming for expanding the range of endangered UK butterflies.

Once a conservation success story, the rare Haleakalā silversword plant is dying off as weather patterns shift on Maui.

Not exact matches

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.»

So there are great success stories, we are developing a national elephant conservation plant for Tanzania in cooperation with the government privately funded, and they were so excited about it, they began to co-fund it through their agencies, as difficult as that is for a country as poor as Tanzania.

Sanderson: The bad news is kind of a mixed bit of bad news, which is that despite the fact that we are doing a lot of really good conservation and there are a lot of great success stories, overall we are losing.

«Too often the stories around conservation are about conflict and failure, but this is one about cooperation and success.

By easing those threats, the park «is likely to be one of the great tiger success stories» in a decade or two, says Dale Miquelle, a world authority on Siberian tigers and director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Russia Program in Vladivostok.

Ganzhorn is particularly worried about smaller, high - risk regions such as the coastal forests and the dry deciduous forests in the west, which he notes tend not to receive the attention of conservation organizations who want to maximize their chances of having success stories to bring back to their donors.

However, in a heart - warming success story for conservation, this native American has made it back from the brink of extinction.

In panel discussions and 12 - minute, TED - like talks, the participants will cover more than two dozen success stories, including the conservation of orchids, Mongolian horses, and maned wolves, as well as efforts to develop stronger ocean policies, productive kelp farms, and more constructive human behavior.

Catalyst Fund: Revive & Restore has come to an important realization that a key barrier to the adoption of genomic solutions by the conservation community is the lack of success stories.

«The Island Fox recovery is an incredible success story about the power of partnerships,» US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a press release, «and the ability of collaborative conservation to correct course for a species on the brink of extinction.»

The Eastern North Pacific Gray has been touted as one of the success stories in US whale conservation history.

I have a story of conservation success for you.

But Brazil's success story started to sputter over the past few years as the costs of the country's financial and political crisis has started to impact its conservation initiatives.

It covers science news, highlight conservation issues and success stories, and interview zoologists.