Sentences with phrase «for conservation biologists»

For conservation biologists like Josh Drew, whose work focuses on coral reefs near Fiji, that loss of recovery time amounts to a «death warrant for coral reefs as we know them.»

Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats.

When Soulé laid out his manifesto for conservation biologists in the 1980s, he portrayed humanity as the wrecking ball laying waste to earth — and what was left of wild nature.

In contrast, control of cat populations is important for conservation biologists, who argue that TNR does not curtail, and in fact enables, predation on small wild animals.

Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats.

5) Hidden Mountains Google Earth also served as the window into an important find for conservation biologist Julian Bayliss, then with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England.

But for a conservation biologist like Phalan, many of the greatest and most important challenges are in the tropics, in locations that can only be reached by air.

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They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

El Porvenir plans on using the award funds for a biologist - led conservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest Conservaconservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest ConservationConservation.»

He has been a practicing ornithologist and conservation biologist for 30 years, specializing in integrating behavioral studies of rare and endangered bird species with habitat conservation planning.

Atwood has been an ornithologist, conservation biologist, and science educator for more than 30 years.

«Her dataset is one of a kind,» says Colorado State University conservation biologist George Wittemyer, chairman of the scientific board for the Kenya - based Save the Elephants, a nongovernmental organization.

Turkalo, 61, is a field biologist for the New York - based Wildlife Conservation Society and arguably the world's foremost expert on African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

The good news, at least for now: No bat deaths have been attributed to the disease in Missouri, says bat biologist Tony Elliott with the state's Department of Conservation.

Ten years later, after a stint teaching high school in the South Bronx, she returned to the country with her then - husband, biologist Michael Fay, to run a small conservation project for the World Wildlife Fund in the newly established Dzanga - Ndoki National Park.

Schaller calls the work of conservation «a gigantic, continuous headache,» explaining that «instead of just being a biologist — something for which I was trained — I must also be a fund - raiser, diplomat, politician, sociologist, anthropologist, everything at once.»

The quotation is a favorite of George Schaller, considered the finest field biologist of our time and the most powerful voice for conservation in more than 100 years.

Field biologist Emma Stokes was working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the forests of northern Congo in 2008 when she and her team announced the discovery of 125,000 western lowland gorillas, doubling the known number of that species.

If the same holds true for other species, Hunt says, conservation biologists may want to take sexual dimorphism into account when assessing species» vulnerability to current environmental threats.

The issue took center stage this week here at the International Congress for Conservation Biology when Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and Conservation Biology when Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and without PES.

Conservation biologists have developed a number of methods for restoring the balance between ourselves and nature, for saving biodiversity.

For the last 12 years the lab of ornithology had been involved in research and conservation and training, building of capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba.

Join us for a live online chat with David Shiffman, a shark conservation biologist and blogger, who will help us understand shark biodiversity and the threats facing sharks today

Turkalo is a field biologist for the New York - based Wildlife Conservation Society and arguably the world's foremost expert on African forest elephants.

However, a lack of agreement between conservation biologists and space agencies on a definitive set of variables to track, as well as how to translate such information into useful data for conservation, has meant that so far this game - changing resource has remained untapped.

In addition to Barrows, the authors are Michelle Murphy - Mariscal, lead biologist for the Western Riverside Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and Rebecca Hernandez, an assistant professor at UC Davis who was previous a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

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.»

In this episode, biologist, ecologist and Pulitzer Prize - winning writer Jared Diamond discusses the environmental state of the world and the relationship between the environment and economics and politics in remarks at a recent benefit for the organization Conservation International.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

Pyenson notes that some conservation biologists argue that the South Asian river dolphin should be prioritized for protection to preserve its evolutionary heritage.

De-extinction — bringing back extinct animal and plant species — is a term that conservation biologists and environmentalists have been bandying about for a decade or so.

«The price is just like drugs,» says Lorenzo Rojas - Bracho, a marine conservation biologist at the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Ensenada, Mexico, and chair of the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA).

So Jewgenow's colleague at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, conservation biologist Christian Voigt, suggested using triatomine bugs.

William Murdoch's counterargument, termed the plant self - defense hypothesis by conservation biologist John Terborgh, suggests that food (bottom - up control) has the strongest influence, that the world may be green because not all plants are palatable to herbivores, and that predators are unnecessary for ecosystem regulation.

Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species are capable of living — for selecting the best site for a national park, for example, or forecasting how badly a species» range will suffer as the climate changes in the future.

«Tropical species in Brazil or Kenya will indeed be much more sensitive to small temperature shifts than their temperate counterparts in places like England and Saskatchewan,» adds biologist Robert Pringle of Stanford University's Center for Conservation Biology.

The Antarctic Treaty has provided a model for conservation of the terrestrial environment, but biologists agree that the marine environment has suffered under Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resourcconservation of the terrestrial environment, but biologists agree that the marine environment has suffered under Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ResourcConservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).

«Biologists in Namibia were hopeful that a U.S. - based auction would produce a record amount for rhino conservation, and that's exactly what happened,» said club Executive Director Ben Carter.

«We were able to engage in this effort due to the use of new technologies that allow us to observe these newly reintroduced groups without disturbing them,» said James Sheppard, a conservation biologist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservaticonservation biologist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for ConservationConservation Research.

«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.

«If you come at dawn and dusk, it's magical,» says E.J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation biologist at the University of Oxford who has studied saigas for 27 years.

For example, last September Possingham, Kerrie Wilson (a biologist at the University of Queensland), and a team of researchers assessed the cost and outcomes of various conservation actions in 39 «Mediterranean» ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF).

«The Department of Wildlife Conservation [DWC] has been transferring elephants for many years,» says Prithiviraj Fernando, a wildlife biologist at the Centre for Conservation and Research in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, and the lead author of the new study.

Now, as part of a radical approach to animal welfare and conservation, 30 or more eminent biologists, philosophers and writers (Kortlandt and Teleki among them) are to launch what amounts to a citizen's charter for chimpanzees.

«It will be a race,» says Dirk Schmeller, a conservation biologist with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.

'' The findings reinforce the need for a cautious approach to develop in the arctic,» says Melanie Lancaster, a conservation biologist with the World Wildlife Fund's Arctic Programme in Ottawa.

Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.

Ornithologist and conservation biologist Jeffrey Wells talks about birds and their roles as markers for environmental health.

«Proposed projects lacking this approach should be rejected,» says Margot Bass, a conservation biologist and founding member of Scientists Concerned for Yasuni.

Szabo, a bird conservation biologist, speculates that migratory birds may have carried a mild form of the virus to Korea, where it spread into commercial poultry farms that provide «perfect conditions for a virus to get pathogenic really quickly.»