Sentences with phrase «focus conservation efforts»

IBM has created a new predictive analytics software that can be used to collect huge amounts of complex information about wildlife - such as what people think about them, where the animals are located, why they are hunted, how everything from education level to access to medicines impacts their decisions - and figure out the best areas to focus conservation efforts.

Finally, the seas on which we should focus our conservation efforts are, according to WWF, the most productive: the Arctic, Southern Oceans, and the seas around West Africa.

The findings will be used to focus conservation efforts where they will have the biggest impact.

Dr Razgour said: «The framework we have developed can be used to identify the wildlife populations that are most under threat, and therefore help decide how to focus conservation efforts to help the species survive under future climate change.

«Alternatively, we can focus our conservation efforts on medium - high risk populations, where we can encourage the bats to move to more suitable areas through increasing connectivity with other populations and to areas where climatic conditions will remain more suitable.»

Such focused conservation efforts — and cash — are needed to save our animals.

Not exact matches

Canadians are also more likely to focus their personal efforts on energy conservation over water conservation.

Jaeger enjoys engaging with his community and focuses much effort towards the conservation of the environment.

The belugas are part of an endangered population that is the focus of a binational conservation effort that includes Shedd Aquarium.

He said the team's future efforts will focus on better quantifying the soil and water conservation effects of cover crops for the region by identifying ideal cover crop termination dates and assessing the effects of cover crops on carbon and nitrogen balances in cotton production systems.

Because the owls» biggest problem used to be destruction of their old - growth forest habitat, conservation efforts have focused on protection against logging.

Conservation efforts should be focused on the most acute factors affecting the seal's survival, such as minimizing bycatch mortality and disturbance during the breeding season.

This analysis may help city planners determine the best locations to focus tree - planting efforts, while helping them realize that the strategy of adding trees needs to be complemented by other reduction and energy - conservation efforts if their communities are to reach their carbon - reduction targets.

Conservation dollars are limited, however, and it is important that invasive mammal management efforts be focused on the islands where they will go the furthest toward conserving native island biodiversity.

CONSERVATION AND CLONING • Although we may soon have the biotechnology tools necessary to revive long - extinct species, such as woolly mammoths, we should focus more on efforts to save the 20,000 species now in grave danger of extinction, the Editors state in this month's Science Agenda.

«With the establishment of Land of the Leopard National Park, in conjunction with other conservation efforts, we can now start to focus on how to begin bringing them back.»

Conservation efforts should still primarily focus on maintaining plants in their original environment, but green roofs provide useful back - up, says Williams.

Every year the foundation spends approximately $ 250 million on efforts to promote environmental conservation, improving patient care, and scientific research, including a focus on marine biology, astronomy, and biological imaging.

She also expresses concern that the designation «may help focus and contribute to conservation efforts.»

The petition largely focused on the use of chimpanzees in the entertainment and pet industries, contending that this ultimately harmed conservation efforts.

Such data could guide the United Nations» effort to designate a series of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas to focus future conservation efforts, Halpin notes.

This will help to shift the focus of conservation efforts from targets assessed just by hectares to other, more - meaningful objectives, focused on effectiveness.

However, the question the researchers asked was this: Should conservation efforts be focused on areas where forest habitats have already been lost and species might be reaching a threshold, or on forests that are largely intact and are only just beginning to be affected by development?

While the Brazilian Amazon has been the focus of intense conservation efforts, the neighboring Cerrado has received much less attention, Spera said.

The authors point out that although conservation and breeding work in the world's zoos is an important effort, it should not take focus from the needed efforts to preserve the natural habitats of endangered animals.

Green Discovery offers unique tours that range from sleeping in a tree to caving to kayaking and coffee tasting, while The Hiker offers treks around the area, and focuses on supporting conservation and preservation efforts of local communities.

«Honeywell and NSBA are united in advancing awareness and efforts to improve our school infrastructure through building improvements, energy conservation measures and other steps that ultimately improve productivity and save schools money so they can focus on what matters most — student outcomes.»

Distinguishing Characteristics: Inspired by nature, Aquarium Zen focuses on aquascaping and promotes environmental conservation efforts.

Arkaba's ongoing conservation efforts focus on the more pernicious threat of foxes and feral cats.

The Chinati Open House lectures for 2009 focused on the conservation efforts and restoration of Donald Judd's 15 untitled works in concrete, 1980 -1984.

The Moyar Valley and Sigur Plateau in Southwest India's Western Ghats Complex, that has been a focus of recent WWF conservation efforts, was found to contain more than 50 tigers.

There is no reason to think that conservation and climate change can't benefit from the same mobilization, if only we could focus our attention and effort.

I looked into the tale of the laid - off rodent as part of my undergraduate thesis focused on the transition at the conservation group from traditional communication efforts relying on coverage in newspapers or television networks to mastering social media.

The film will focus on the efforts of marine scientists at the Carmabi Research Institute to foster a culture of conservation in coastal fishing communities and land developers.

The effort was led by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading U.S. bird conservation group; Fundación ProAves, one of the leading conservation groups in Colombia; and Fondo para la Acción Ambiental y la Niñez, a Colombian organization that focuses on community, youth, and environmental projects.

TEMA, an NGO in Turkey that focuses on reforestation and soil conservation efforts, is distributing 4,250 copies of the Turkish edition of Plan B 3.0 to members of Parliament, universities, political leaders, volunteers, the media, mayors, libraries, and NGOs.

The Central Government also plans to focus on promoting water conservation through the use of drip irrigation, among other efforts, and by developing drought - resistant crops, along with mitigating methane emissions from rice production and controlling farm waste through the creation of large - scale biogas digesters.

Other efforts will focus on adopting sustainable agricultural practices and restoring degraded lands abutting conservation areas to improve land use management and livelihoods.

National environmental and political organizations like the League of Conservation Voters, the NRDC Action Fund and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee focused their efforts elsewhere.

In addition DRC was singled out by UNEP just this week as one of only 15 countries where, in their opinion, international efforts at forest conservation should be focused, but 15 % of the country's land area has been signed over to Zimbabwe's army — not notably skilled loggers.

Most recently, the U.S. Senate passed the Energy Policy Modernization Act (2015), which was developed to promote conservation, improve accountability, increase America's energy supply, improve energy infrastructure, and enhance energy efficiency in an overall effort focused on energy security.

It's counterproductive, except to make money by releasing the methane for sure, rather than leave the strata alone and focus the money and effort on non-carbon infrastructure and conservation as fast as possible.

Doctoral students focus their efforts on research; current options include biodiversity conservation, hydrology, pollution management, tropical ecology, and water resource management — plus many others.

Accordingly, their conservation efforts focus on preserving wild landscapes and biodiversity.