Sentences with phrase «from conservation areas»

In 2003, The Fish and Wildlife Service and Florida department of Environmental Protection jointly initiated a program for the removal of feral and free - roaming cats from conservation areas occupied by woodrats.

Not exact matches

Environment Minister Donna Faragher has released an integrated conservation strategy for the Greater Western Woodlands in the state's south east, saying the area will be protected but benefits from mining, pastoralism, tourism, and forestry will continue

The bill creates a conservation area along the North Florida Reef Tract stretching from the St. Lucie Inlet to the northern boundary of Biscayne National Park.

Revenue from these leases will be a huge boost for Gulf states, like Alabama, and will help us continue conservation and preservation of our treasured coastal areas,» said Congressman Bradley Byrne.

5 Land area is extrapolated from data in 2011 Ethical Sourcing Factsheet stating that at least 102,000 ha are set aside for conservation on Starbucks» suppliers farms, and that represents about 23 % of total area verified under CAFE Practices.

Nestled deep in the subtropical forest of northwestern Belize and renowned for being the largest private reserve and second - largest protected area in the country, the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA) is located only two - and - a-half hours away from Belize Carea in the country, the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA) is located only two - and - a-half hours away from Belize CArea (RBCMA) is located only two - and - a-half hours away from Belize City.

Bloom supports environmental conservation efforts by not utilizing wood in their products from intact natural forests, high conservation forests, or protected areas.

We even can help you decide on a New Year's resolution at our Habitat Conservation Fair where you can meet representatives from area conservation organizations and discover opportunities to becoConservation Fair where you can meet representatives from area conservation organizations and discover opportunities to becoconservation organizations and discover opportunities to become involved.

Citizen reports from backyards, feeders, highways, and conservation areas across the state are important to Mass Audubon's efforts to learn more about the populations, distributions, and breeding activities of the birds of Massachusetts.

All proceeds from this event benefit Oak Knoll and Attleboro Springs Wildlife Sanctuaries and the nature education, conservation, and advocacy work Mass Audubon does in the greater Attleboro area.

The testing of Washington Lake and Silver Stream near the Stewart Airport Air National Guard base has given the state Department of Environmental Conservation enough proof to declare the area a Superfund site because of PFOS contamination, believed to have originated from the Guard base.

They were greeted at the state capitol by Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb (R - Canandaigua), State Sen. Tom O'Mara (R - Big Flats), chair of the Senate's Environmental Conservation Committee, Finger Lakes area State Sen. Pam Helming (R - Canandaigua) and by a tweet from Gov. Andrew Cuomo denouncing the incinerator as inconsistent with his administration's public health and environmental goals.

The Goshen residents, who all live in the New Hampton area, have filed against the town, Orange County and the State Department of Environmental Conservation claiming they did not clear tree growth and other obstructions from the Wallkill River, which resulted in the flooding of their homes.

State Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos on Monday said the federal Environmental Protection Agency needs to do more to ensure that PCBs have been thoroughly removed from the Hudson River, reopening a decades - long debate about the area's toxic legacy.

In science news around the world, scientists march in India to call for more research funding, a South Korean researcher who was enmeshed in a stem cell scandal a decade ago resigns from a newly created government position, Canada establishes a vast marine conservation area in the High Arctic, a highly regarded advocate for science is convicted of financial misdemeanors in Egypt, and more.

Core protected areas had long been a feature of conservation design, but Soulé and Noss described national parks and wildlife refuges as only the beginning, the kernels from which larger, mightier protected areas must grow.

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

In their paper, the team of scientists from the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Smithsonian Institution (both USA), and the University of Göttingen, Germany, also raise concerns on the conservation status of this unique tree which is severely limited to a 1.5 km2 area of occupancy on Kaua`i.

The latest work suggests that conservation groups must broaden their efforts to protect nesting areas from development.

But other artists are pushing conservation science into uncharted areas, with work fashioned from materials as diverse as soap and chocolate, blood and faeces (yes, some modern art really is crap).

The team of researchers highlights the need to tackle at least the following three areas of research for the rest of the felids: differentiating habitat loss from the effects of fragmentation using theoretical scenarios; selecting priority areas for conservation, and analysing the consequences of habitat loss.

The multinational World Conservation Union, headquartered in Switzerland, is coordinating a project to create a massive transborder greenbelt that would eventually extend from the border of Russia and Finland southward through areas once obscured by the iron curtain: the old, rural East and West German border and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

The dominant approach to conservation has been to focus on protecting pristine environments, but new research from Australia demonstrates that on average, urban environments contain disproportionately more threatened protected species in a given area than non-urban environments.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN asked four speakers from November's World Parks Congress — a meeting held every 10 years by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to discuss issues concerning protected areas — what would be at the top of their to - do lists for the next decade.

Our study shows that protecting some areas from fishing activity can benefit both conservation and fisheries.»

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

Co-author Professor Darren Crayn says the findings show well managed conservation reserves may be safe from many threats, but not from climate change, with the Wet Tropics World Heritage area seriously exposed.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.

First author of the study, William Symes, a graduate student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science said, «Protected areas are not static but instead dynamic, shifting institutions that change over time, and it is crucial for conservation planners to recognise this.

Using detailed maps of human impact created by David Theobald at Conservation Partners in Fort Collins, Colorado, they distinguished natural areas from areas disturbed by human activity across the United States.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

Services can address specific areas in need of attention, such as energy and water conservation, waste reduction, toxics minimization and eco-friendly purchasing, and also overall efforts to green the business from top to bottom.

ter Steege: «Thus, if we can protect these areas from threats they face, such as fires, degradation, deforestation, large - scale damage, and mining, the Amazon could be a showcase of large - scale conservation worldwide.»

Dr Diogo Verissimo, a postdoctoral researcher at Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), said: «Our findings suggest that while climate change could be deflecting attention from biodiversity loss in terms of funding, in other areas the sentiment shared by many conservationists that biodiversity loss is now a secondary issue could be a result of a comparatively quicker rise in prominence of climate change.»

Marginal areas are often currently set aside for conservation, both as a means to provide a habitat for wildlife as well as a way to protect it from agricultural runoff into waterways.

Researchers determined that areas near existing forests were best for conservation, while areas away from existing roads reduced the impacts on company profits.

Widener says GIS now has a wide range of applications from business operations to transportation, conservation and agriculture, urban planning and more areas.

The Lampasas River Watershed Partnership, facilitated by the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Temple and the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, consists of area residents and other stakeholders from across the watershed.

«As protected conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the boundaries of these protected areas,» says Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist from University of New South Wales, in a news release.

«It will be simpler, cheaper and more effective from a conservation viewpoint to protect the whole Coral Sea area as one no - take zone».

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.

Vegas is also a hot spot for outdoor enthusiasts, a fact I was completely unaware of a decade ago, when my main form of working out was all - night club dancing; the city is less than 20 minutes from Red Rock Canyon, a sunset - hued national conservation area filled with hiking trails and bike routes.

Krill is collected in pristine deep - water seas far from industrial areas, and is harvested in compliance with international conservation standards.

Only take genuine processed krill, harvested from deep - water seas from industrial areas, in compliance with international conservation standards.

The twin approach to be formally adopted is conservation and sustainable use of marine resources that includes management of fisheries, reducing pollution, cleaning up plastic debris and prevention of nuclear waste, expanding marine protected areas and defending watersheds from destruction.

Seaton pupils proudly boast of their awareness of environmental issues and their own environmentally friendly behaviours — from switching off lights and computers, to tending to the school's compost wormery and grass snake conservation area.

Located just 12 miles east of Angleton, Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge is a 44,414 - acre conservation area that offers a peaceful escape from the hustle and bustle of modern life.

Where the problems are being asked from areas such as chemical reactions, atomic and molecular structures, stoichiometry, conservation of matter, acid base reaction, kinematics and issues related to periodic table of elements.

Isiolo is a semiarid area among one of the districts in Eastern Province which has benefited from the Green Belt Movement's Environmental Conservation Programme, whose objective is to promote a clean and healthy environment.