Sentences with phrase «conservation tool»

Another valuable tool in the soil conservation tool kit is no - till farming.

Typically, this policy has been a very popular estate conservation tool for couples looking to protect their legacy from considerable estate taxes.

No - till practices were first introduced as a soil conservation tool, and to decrease labor requirements and fuel use.

We highlighted a powerful conservation tool that simultaneously brings social security for local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation at large spatial scales.

In our view, the IWC should not adopt any proposal that forfeits the enormous gains embodied in the commercial whaling moratorium, the best conservation tool ever enacted to ensure the recovery of whale populations and prevent their future decline.

Explore the current community projects, including Low Impact Development outreach and the MAPPR conservation tool.

Making a case to government officials that oral vaccines are necessary conservation tools took decades of fieldwork, genetic testing and meetings upon meetings.

Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes — except that it won't work, says a University of Guelph ecologist.

Their solution: ordinary rectangular art erasers made from polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, a common conservation tool used to remove dirt from old books without damaging the pages.

Extracting information from fecal samples is now an important conservation tool, but it was new ground in early 1985.

A big part of what we do at Revive & Restore is bring together scientists conducting cutting - edge genomics research with the conservationists who are working in the field so that these new technologies may become an instrumental part of the twenty - first century conservation tool kit.

At Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a Research and Development Grant of $ 349,988 will enable the development of conservation tools to combat the formation of so - called metal soap — which causes deterioration to paintings — on works by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Compounding matters is the amount of confusion and misunderstanding about conservation tools like heritage designation.

The removal of introduced invasive rats from island ecosystems is a powerful conservation tool to protect threatened species, and has been adopted worldwide, with about 500 successful eradications reported.

«Invasive species not best conservation tool, study shows: Make matters worse for native mollusks.»

Control and eradication of invasive species are effective conservation tools, but conservation scientists have lacked tools for identifying where these efforts will have the greatest impact.

Wildlife officials often used culling as a conservation tool in South Africa from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Though not designed as a conservation tool, the system data enables users to understand, and subsequently to design tools that help mitigate the impacts of maritime traffic on the marine environment and wildlife.

But, say the authors, AIS's full potential as a conservation tool is yet to be tapped.

For Possingham, who thinks assisted colonization will become a «pragmatic» conservation tool to prevent extinctions, results of the trial can't come soon enough.

«Captive breeding program are rather a conservation tool than a conservation goal.

The removal of introduced rats from island ecosystems is a powerful conservation tool to protect threatened species, and has been adopted worldwide with ~ 500 successful eradications reported.

Passenger Pigeon de-extinction has fueled global dialogue on developing de-extinction as a conservation tool; our program has been used as a case study by independent researchers in many publications.

Improving invasive ant eradication as a conservation tool: A review.

Removing invasive rats from islands is a powerful conservation tool, and practitioners are now targeting larger islands for rat eradication.

He also invents, makes, and sells bookbinding and conservation tools.