Sentences with phrase «from wildlife projects»

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Sixteen Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries from Cape Cod to the Berkshires will offer projects suitable for all ages and abilities.

The project, which has emerged from Mass Audubon's commitment to developing trails at its wildlife sanctuaries for visitors with a full range of functional abilities, will provide guidance and support materials for like - minded organizations nationwide.

The transformation of Tidmarsh Farms from a working cranberry farm to a biodiverse habitat — and eventually a protected wildlife sanctuary — is the result of many passionate individuals who have put their hearts and souls into the project.

Sixteen Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries from Cape Cod to the Berkshires will offer projects suitable for all ages and abilities for Mass Audubon's sixth - annual Statewide Volunteer Day Saturday, April 28, 2012.

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

From design to implementation, rewilding projects create jobs for a host of specialties — soil assessment, land system mapping, wildlife surveys and management, fire management — and for people in the construction and landscaping fields.

Carried out on Ashmore Reef (tropical) and Macquarie Island (Sub-Antarctic), the research found that the ever - increasing precision provided by drones, along with the ability to survey hard - to - reach populations, may mean that wildlife monitoring projects move from traditional methods to drone technology.

Although SpaceX has won praise from some wildlife managers for its plans to minimize negative effects, the launch facility is a worry for conservationists such as Carole Allen of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, particularly about the Kemp's ridley turtle, which nests primarily in Texas and northern Mexico and nearly went extinct in the 1970s.

The project would include more than 980,000 acres of «bridge habitat,» or connections from one «clump» to another, said Sarah Reif, a wildlife biologist with Arizona Fish and Game.

Birmingham City Council, BritIsh Waterways and the Department of the Environment, who are providing funding for the project, hope to clean the sediment from a 5 - kilometre length of the canal system so that fish, plants and wildlife can return to the canal - side redevelopment zone.

That active engagement included posting online endorsements from experienced scientists and others, providing compelling «lab notes» containing updates and project background, and offering donors a nonmonetary reward such as visits to the research lab and, in the case of wildlife studies, offering photographs of subject animals.

India's Project Wild Seve allows people who have suffered crop or livestock loss from wild animals to streamline the compensation process, thus helping both farmers and wildlife.

Reviving and restoring woolly mammoths — and their climate - stabilizing mammoth steppe — is the most spectacular wildlife project that Ryan Phelan and I have taken on for our California nonprofit called Revive & Restore, and thanks to George Church's marvelous team, it is the furthest along in terms of actually editing genes from an extinct species into the genome of a living relative.

During my workshops at the conference, I listened to teachers brainstorm project ideas about everything from reducing road congestion to turning schoolyards into wildlife habitats to celebrating the literary legacy of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.

Cochrane describes «Campus Calgary,» a project - based learning program that lets Calgary elementary students spend a week on - site at one of several community agencies — from a wildlife sanctuary to a homeless shelter — learning hands - on from adults working in the agency.

In it, she combines interesting facts about domestic and wild animals with practical advice, personal stories and hands - on projects she's done with her family — like whipping up pet treats, learning how to help injured wildlife, growing a pollinator garden and making jewelry from photographs of their foster pets.

Hernandez and Loyd are, we're told, «interested in improving the welfare of both cats and wildlife and continue to work on educational materials using images and statistics from the «KittyCams» project.»

As examples, students» at all academic levels and from many national and international locations, have had the experience of working in a research laboratory or have participated in a focused research project related to vector borne infectious diseases of companion animals or wildlife species.

APLNJ's wildlife program, Project 99 — a voice for the more than 99 % of NJ residents who do not hunt — works to protect wildlife from the assault by the NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife.

People from all over the county bring wildlife patients to Project Wildlife for care and many local businesses such as landscaping companies, government agencies (e.g. Animal Services, CalTrans, SDPD), and animal organizations (e.g. SD Zoo, SeaWorld), depend on the life - saving services provided by Project Wildlife.

After graduating from the University of Montana with a degree in Wildlife Biology, he spent several decades working on a multitude of wildlife research projects.

Cuilcagh Mountain Park was founded in 1998 with assistance from the European Union's LIFE Peatlands Project and the Heritage Lottery Fund, to restore damaged peatland, to conserve pristine blanket bog and to increase awareness of bogland habitats and wildlife.

Park staff in King Salmon have been reading blog posts and receiving comments from the public that are heartfelt and sincere in their concern for the welfare of brown bears and other wildlife during the upcoming Brooks River bridge and boardwalk construction project.

For some wildlife encounters with an ethical edge, go to the Phuket Elephant Sanctuary, a refuge centre for elephants retired from the tourist trade, or stop by the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project near Bang Pae Waterfall, a rescue and release centre for abused primates and other animals.

The Amigos conservation team comprises biologists, oceanographers, anthropologists, development workers and volunteers and its projects range from wildlife research to an environmental services payment program for protecting the jungle, water studies and sustainable development.

Here's some background from the Park Service website on the project explaining why sound and silence matter, both to wildlife and people:

Here's some background from the Park Service website on the project explaining why sound and silence matter, both to wildlife and people: Read more...

The resulting book, «The Human Age,» is a splendidly prismatic tour of humans» techno - biological environmental impacts and tinkering, taking readers from an encounter with the Toronto Zoo's iPad - wielding orangutans («ginger - haired tree dancers,» in Ackerman's parlance) to the sterile drawers of DNA from vanishing wildlife at the University of Nottingham's Frozen Ark project back to the Creative Machines Lab of roboticist Hod Lipson in her home town.

As if satellite - controlled, motion - triggered remote cameras for wildlife conservation wasn't enough, the images from the Instant Wild project are not only available to conservationists, but are also sent to a mobile app that allows users to see the photos and then help identify any animals in them.

A new SEI Tallinn project aims to keep litter from urban areas from ending up in the water, where it harms wildlife, water quality, and human health.

The International Conservation Union, in its latest red list of endangered wildlife, gave polar bears threatened status in May, projecting a decline of 30 percent by midcentury from current populations, mainly due to projected losses of sea ice in a warming world.

«This project combines critical forest and wildlife conservation work with a raft of social and community benefits, from sustainable cocoa production to the provision of saving and lending schemes,» commented Emily Woodfield, Head of Tropical Forest Landscapes Unit, RSPB.

Based on a methodology developed in a previous study that estimated wood supply on four National Forests in northern Arizona [33], we subtracted from the total area of ponderosa pine in the watersheds — 0.68 million ha (1.68 million acres)-- those areas that are typically excluded from mechanical thinning projects due to steepness, restrictions in land management, previous treatments, or considerations of soil, habitat, or wildlife conditions (Table 1).

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 - adjacentProject 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 - adjacentproject 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.

Through collaborative partnerships, we support innovative projects that protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, while restoring balance to threatened ecosystems and communities.

WCO says that projects not built yet should also be halted, such as the North Kent II, where water problems persist, and Amherst Island, to name two, where a tiny island community will be exposed to noise emissions from 26 50 - storey high wind turbines and endangered wildlife will be affected.

The USFWS issued its first interim guidance about how wind project developers could avoid impacts to wildlife from wind turbines in 2003, and replaced these with a «tiered» approach outlined in the Land - Based Wind Energy Guidelines (2012 LBWEGs), developed with the wind industry starting in 2007 and released in final form by the USFWS on March 23, 2012.

For a more hands - on approach to your next trip, look to Ecotourists Save the World, written by Pamela K. Brodowsky and the National Wildlife Federation: The book highlights 300 different programs from around the world — including the Fur Seal Project in Alaska, the Adriatic Dolphin Project in Croatia, and the Open Minded Project in Thailand — that concentrate on wildlife conservation.

Leo's velvety coffee blend will benefit a variety of his projects from protecting endangered wildlife to preserving forests and oceans, disaster relief and supporting clean energy.

The company supports the Born Free Foundation, which protects wild elephants from poachers and opposes their use in zoos and circuses, as well as Tusk, a charity that funds community - based projects in Africa to conserve wildlife and alleviate poverty.