Sentences with phrase «for ecological conservation»

All Splash Dive Instructors are also registered with the Belizean Tour Operators association, and Splash is a leading member in the local community for ecological conservation and founder of several community projects.

While such a program would contribute to basic community and ecosystem research, it also has significant implications for ecological conservation and restoration.

Not exact matches

The Glen Ellyn Park District has been working with Conservation Design Forum, an ecological design company, and landscape architects Farr Associates since early June to create a master plan for the park at a cost of about $ 56,000.

Amber Carr is the Director of Mass Audubon's Ecological Extension Service, a fee - for - service program where we share management expertise with our conservation partners.

«Whether a natural resource professional, land trust volunteer, or local conservation advocate, users will find MAPPR to be an efficient and effective tool for gaining valuable insights into targeted land conservation in the 21st century,» said Jeff Collins, Mass Audubon Director of Ecological Management and project lead.

Proposing conservation and ecological restoration on a scale previously unimagined, rewilding has become a principal method for designing, connecting, and restoring protected areas — the ultimate weapon in the fight against fragmentation.

Ecological restoration has worked wonders in Nepal's Terai Arc, where monsoonal lands are recovering from intensive human use as people are persuaded to manage forests for conservation and supplement their income with ecotourism and sustainable native crops.

The lynx's conservation strategy consists of connecting isolated populations through ecological corridors, but the information provided through local and regional population viability models for short and longer time periods also helps.

Extreme conservation measures are the last hope for these unsung ecological heroes

Indeed, recent years have brought new applications of tracking for ecological research and conservation.

Nonetheless, as co-author S D Biju notes, these insights into the frog's development, «enable a better understanding of its ecological adaptations and provide useful information for conservation of this Endangered species and its vanishing habitats.»

The new carbon map also reveals Perú's extremely high ecological diversity and it provides the critical input to studies of deforestation and forest degradation for conservation, land use, and enforcement purposes.

Authors include scientists from University of Queensland, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED), UC Santa Barbara, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Imperial College London and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The report, released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, maps out 13 areas that are of particular ecological and biological significance or are especially vulnerable to human intrusion.

It demonstrates that a combination of techniques can do much to illuminate causes of population declines, improve decision making for conservation management and possibly prevent similar developments in populations of other species of similar ecological standing.

Invasion biology's florid competition to hyperbolize the alien threat suggests that Elton's omission of «scientific» or «ecological» among his reasons for conservation was well considered.

The study was undertaken by a team of researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), the Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL), and the University of Montana.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

«Conservation on this scale,» said Pew's Kallick, «helps assure that growth can not overdraft ecological balances, that an ample reserve of natural resource capital will remain in the bank for future generations to use.»

International efforts are currently underway in Antarctica to build long - term monitoring systems for land and coastal organisms from an ecological conservation standpoint.

He is convenor of Royal Entomological Society Pollination Special Interest Group and a member of the British Ecological Society, Royal Entomological Society, Society for Conservation Biology, and has involvement with the WorldBeeProject charity.

Island Conservation's Restoration Specialist and Wildlife Veterinarian Paula A. Castaño shares how removal of invasive rodents and feral cats will pave the way for ecological restoration and native species reintroduction on Floreana Island.

CREECS engages family and community in the commitment to nurture the whole child in preparation for a global society by emphasizing ecological conservation and sustainability.

Lake Elementaita Wildlife Sanctuary boundary modification exercise has been conducted through UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa funding, by undertaking ecological assessments of lake riparian and ecologically sensitive areas to inform conservation needs.

Their primary goal is to continue to maintain the «Blue Flag» ecological Recognition Award received in the past years by endorsing and conducting ecological practices for the conservation of nature.

Costa Rica has made it to # 1 on the Happy Planet Index for two years in a row (2012 & 2011), based on its national conservation policies, small ecological footprint, high quality of life and life expectancy rate all being «exceedingly above par», states Forbes Magazine.

«This esteemed award re-affirms all of our efforts to maintain the Island's ecological and conservation legacy even as we develop it into a globally - recongised touristic destination that offers luxurious and unique experiences for both visitors and guests.»

Alicia Cordero is the First Nations Program Officer for Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation's First Nations Ecological Conservation Alliance.

Located 12 miles from Puntarenas, near Kuru and across from Playa Organo, Isla Tortuga (Turtle Island) has an area of 120 hectares with 4 main hills and 500 meters of beachfront - maintained as a park, with Bandera Azul (blue flag) distinction for excellent ecological conservation.

Our main goal is to continue to maintain the «Blue Flag» ecological Recognition Award received in the past years by promoting and conducting ecological practices for the conservation of nature.

First launched in 2006, the Urban Field Station provides a location for this long - term research partnership promoting applied science on urban ecology, conservation, stewardship, and ecological literacy to support ecosystem management and human well - being.

The Wildlife Conservation Society spent nearly $ 50 million over six years to create a small patch of Madagascar in the city, and to draw attention to the plight of an island with an extraordinary ecological bounty that has been relentlessly destroyed by a struggling, poor population trying to expand rice farming and find wood for fuel and construction.

Amazingly, with an enrollment of only about 800 students (for the record — that's roughly the same size as my high school), the college offers majors in Environmental Studies, Renewable Energy & Ecological Design, Wilderness & Outdoor Therapy, Sustainable Agriculture & Food Production, Animal Conservation & Care and numerous minor options in the environmental and sustainability space.

We are searching for a highly innovative and collaborative scholar of marine science who focuses on any aspect (or combination of) ecological or environmental dimensions of marine conservation or fisheries science.

The 28 June letter was signed by leaders of the following organizations: AAAS; American Chemical Society; American Geophysical Union; American Institute of Biological Sciences; American Meteorological Society; American Public Health Association; American Society of Agronomy; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; American Society of Naturalists; American Society of Plant Biologists; American Statistical Association; Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography; Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation; Association of Ecosystem Research Centers; BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium; Botanical Society of America; Consortium for Ocean Leadership; Crop Science Society of America; Ecological Society of America; Entomological Society of America; Geological Society of America; National Association of Marine Laboratories; Natural Science Collections Alliance; Organization of Biological Field Stations; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Society for Mathematical Biology; Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Society of Nematologists; Society of Systematic Biologists; Soil Science Society of America; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

The solutions for emissions involve both technological and social innovation — addressing population, black carbon, ecological conservation and restoration, food security, health and education and economic deelpopment.

(E) establishes methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to assist fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapt to, and better withstand the impacts of climate changes and ocean acidification and for updating those strategies and actions to respond appropriately to new information or changing conditions;

It provides a rigorous framework for landscape - scale conservation in the region that meets multiple ecological objectives.

Fossil fuel development undermines the protection of public lands for future generations and the conservation of species, habitat, and ecological values to which the lands have been consecrated.

Good for population stabilisation and then the basics can be accomplished — ecological restoration and conservation, rebuilding carbon stores in agricultural soils, limiting black carbon and tropospheric ozone for health, environmental and agricultural benefit.

Thich Nhat Hahn expands on the imperative for environmental protection and how best to bring that about, in the Buddhist ecological faith statement for the Alliance of Religions and Conservation:

Inspired by an early name for the Hudson River, the Muhheakantuck, or «river that flows two ways» — or, as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation puts it, a «tidal estuary, an arm of the sea where salty sea water meets fresh water running off the land» — members of the Architecture Research Office and dlandstudio proposed using both porous streets that can filter water and extending the lower part of the island to create a new Lower Manhattan that is part «twenty - first - century business district,» part «center of regional ecological renewal»:

While attending the Bren School, Conrad - Saydah was a research assistant at UCSB's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesi.s She was a Doris Duke Conservation Fellow from 2007 to 2008.

state remuneration for the contribution of the customary econ omy to the wider society, through sustainable land use and conservation effected by the practice of «traditional ecological knowledge»