Sentences with phrase «doing wildlife conservation»

In the pursuit of a veterinary career she spent six months living in Kenya doing wildlife conservation, and throughout vet school worked at her local zoo.

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«While the illegal killing of wildlife can never be justified and we totally condemn anybody that persecutes wildlife, it is also disappointing that the report does not give credit for shooting's massive and well - documented contribution to bird conservation.»

A state Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman confirmed that porcupines aren't protected wildlife but said the agency doesn't condone wanton killing of animals.

Although the falling populations can't be definitively attributed to Russia's political instability without stronger evidence, the findings do draw attention to the important connection between social welfare and wildlife health, the authors report online this month in Conservation Biology.

Sanderson: We were pioneers in this field in the Wildlife Conservation Society, because we've been doing wildlife health for over a 100 years and that's because we operate zoos and parks, and we are engaged in research on wildlife health.

«If we can understand how the landscape has changed over decades and what that does to water quality, human health, and ecosystem health, we can begin to make predictions for the future,» said senior author Kathleen Alexander, professor of wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

Leakey's promotion, says conservation biologist David Woodruff of the University of California, San Diego, «has little to do with wildlife conservation or natural resource stewardship for the people of Kenya and everything to do with national politics and power.»

«If we do all that landscaping with non-native plants, are we limiting the wildlife and conservation support system that could be available within that given plot of land?

«Doing a master's degree is a common way to get a taste of an area and see if it's for you,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, who spent months on end in Ghana, surveying wildlife for his PhD in conservation biology.

Just as I found myself unprepared for the cultural aspects of working in Africa, so did I find myself unprepared for many of the realities of wildlife conservation.

Ensure that industry, mining, infrastructure, and rural development programs and projects are fully sensitive to the conservation needs of snow leopards and their ecosystems, do not adversely affect or fragment key populations or critical habitats, and employ wildlife - friendly design, offsets, and other mitigation tools.

What they are doing is brilliant, breakthrough science, and therefore exactly the kind of high - visibility, proof - of - concept example that will show conservation biologists and the general public what a potent new toolkit biotech is bringing to wildlife conservation.

Nonetheless their conservation agencies are going ahead, because they recognize that doing nothing will result in the irrecoverable loss of much of their unique native wildlife.

Due to their adverse impact on wildlife, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation commission does not issue permits to make lawful either the release of cats to the wild or the establishment of feral / free - roaming cat colonies.

Which, as McCarthy explains, is exactly what Julie Wraithmell, director of wildlife conservation, did — disputing the fact that TNR reduces the number of feral cats.

Feng: It is a natural and easy fit for us because as a young company, all of us at P.L.A.Y. are passionate about doing what we can to help our planet, be it through contribution to IFAW for wildlife conservation and animal protection, or through environmental impact we make by selling eco-friendly products.

Do the Flinders in style at Arkaba, a former sheep station on the edge of Wilpena Pound that is now a private wildlife conservation park.

But the panoramic views and abundance of nature on the mainland also offer plenty to do and see for honeymooners, including touring animal sanctuaries, wildlife conservation areas (including the world's only jaguar monitoring program), and enjoying activities like bird watching, spelunking (exploring caves), hiking, and horseback riding.

«We felt that the most famous wildlife charity in the world could be doing more, through what is the most famous logo in conservation, to highlight what is the largest and most pressing issue today,» says Grey.

After a 2006 trip to Tanzania, he pondered setting up a nonprofit group focused on wildlife conservation but that didn't seem realistic living in Portugal (his wife works there).

Eleven groups doing conservation work or biological research in Madagascar have issued a joint statement decrying a surge in raids on the country's national parks for valuable timber, smuggling of rare wildlife and other activities abetted by the unrest and political instability there.

It is hardly what anyone would call charismatic megafauna, so it doesn't spark big campaigns by wildlife conservation groups.

Project leader, Mburu Waiganjo told us «What makes me personally proud is the fact that our project has reversed a forest degradation trend and the «don't care» attitude towards the forest conservation that had prevailed has now gone and yielded the current lush green forest that is teeming with wildlife noises from the birds, the beauty of the butterflies and other insects which are evidently useful in pollination of crops in the forest - adjacent farms.

A statement yesterday from Yegor Vereshchagin, wildlife conservation manager from Chukotka, Russia (Polar Bears Adjust to Climate Change, 20 February 2018) confirms that Chukchi Sea polar bears are currently doing extremely well.

Minimizing wildlife mortality at wind farms is a major goal of conservation, although research on how best to do that is in short supply.

In doing so, along with his organization the Leuser Conservation Forum (FKL), together with the HAkA Foundation (HAkA), he restored a critical wildlife corridor that had been out of use for over 12 years.

But many conservation scientists insist that real damage is already being done to ecosystems right now — and some believe it will indeed be as bad for wildlife as the Valdez spill twenty years ago.As Bad for Wildlife as the Exxon Valdez Spill?

While the bracelets and the scarves don't have a strong green message (other than promoting slightly squishy feelings of respect and kindness), the company's 10th anniversary Sponge Bob shirts, a collaboration with Nickelodeon, helped «support the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council's efforts to raise awareness for the conservation and protection of wildlife and our natural resources,» according to the Humanity Web site.

And that creates a key conservation challenge: making sure that human land use doesn't sever the habitat connections needed by wildlife.»