Sentences with phrase «global biodiversity conservation»

For example, the management of any global biodiversity conservation goal through the mitigation hierarchy could follow a similar framework to the United Nations» management of carbon emissions, with nation states setting their own national goals and targets that then sum to achieve overarching planetary goals.

As conservation scientists concerned with global depletion of biodiversity and the degradation of the human life - support system this entails, we, the co-signed, support the broad conclusions drawn in the article «Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation» published in Conservation Biology (Brook & Bradshaw 2014).

The OIST researchers chose to honor Mr. Obama for his prodigious contributions to global biodiversity conservation.

«The fact that India made a financial commitment at national and international level sets a precedent for other emerging economies to offer more support to global biodiversity conservation,» Gustavsson said.

Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent say that with over 4 million km2 of tropical forests harvested for timber worldwide, improving the way logging impacts on wildlife is essential for global biodiversity conservation.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

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IRRI works to ensure the long - term preservation of rice biodiversity as a part of the global strategy for the conservation of rice genetic resources in partnership with national programs and regional and international organizations worldwide, including through the International Rice Genebank.

The Coffee Conservation Award will be presented annually to recognize farms making a significant contribution to global biodiversity preservation.

Growing evidence for global pollinator decline is causing concern for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services maintenance.

Although tempting to conclude that human activities thus benefit as well as deplete global biodiversity, the authors stress that extinct wild species can not simply be replaced with newly evolved ones, and that nature conservation remains just as urgent.

Although conservation efforts are accelerating, their impact is unlikely to improve the global state of biodiversity by 2020.

In the most thorough study of its kind, scientists have now analyzed global patterns of island vertebrate extinctions and developed predictive models to help identify places where conservation interventions will provide the greatest benefits to threatened island biodiversity.

If implemented now, active conservation measures could help to avert this global biodiversity catastrophe, both in Jamaica and in the many other global biodiversity hotspots that are threatened by invasive species.

The results of these findings help unveil how natural systems operate and have global ramifications for the management and conservation of grassland biodiversity.

To accelerate establishment of highly effective biodiversity refuges, the Marine Conservation Institute has initiated the Global Ocean Refuge System (GLORES).

«Biodiversity conservation has mostly focused on species, but some species may offer much more critical or unique functions or evolutionary heritage than others — something current conservation planning does not readily address,» said Walter Jetz, a Yale associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and director of the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change.

Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and restoration.

Appreciate the support of the Global Environment Facility, Global Tiger Initiative, Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Snow Leopard Conservancy, Snow Leopard Trust, United Nations Development Programme, United States Agency for International Development, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and others for the cause of snow leopard conservation, and invite all interested stakeholders to expand partnerships to enhance Conservation Union (NABU), Snow Leopard Conservancy, Snow Leopard Trust, United Nations Development Programme, United States Agency for International Development, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and others for the cause of snow leopard conservation, and invite all interested stakeholders to expand partnerships to enhance conservation, and invite all interested stakeholders to expand partnerships to enhance the Program.

Quantitative measurements of plant characterisation are essential to biodiversity, sustainability and conservation policy formation of local, national and global areas.

«The establishment of new shark and ray sanctuaries such as this is exactly the reason we partnered with FIU to roll out the Global FinPrint surveys,» said James Deutsch, director of Biodiversity Conservation for Paul Allen.

The Aichi targets (within the UN Convention on Biological Diversity) of setting aside marine and terrestrial areas for conservation are also good examples of the political translation of a science based concern over global loss of biodiversity.

Urban forest ecosystems can provide many benefits to cities and communities including energy conservation, contributing to global biodiversity, and maintaining hydrologic and nutrient cycles.

The Conversation: In a time of diminishing global biodiversity, Bhutan's conservation achievements read like an environmentalist's heavenly dream.

Forest conservation is a key part of any global strategy to mitigate climate change: forests are also reservoirs of natural biodiversity and play a vital role in water conservation.

Protecting and regenerating forests, ecosystems and soils is the most important step we must take if we are to stabilize the global climate, not to mention other ecosystem benefits this would provide, including protecting future freshwater supplies and biodiversity conservation.

«Forest conservation must be prioritised based on their relative values, and Earth's remaining forests are the crown jewels, ones that global climate and biodiversity policies must now emphasise.»

A fifth of global human - caused carbon emissions today are absorbed by terrestrial ecosystems; this important carbon sink operates largely without human intervention, but could be increased through a concerted effort to reduce forest loss and to restore damaged ecosystems, which also co-benefits the conservation of biodiversity.

They will provide ecologists and land managers with new and better information to support biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk assessment, and timber production while helping climate scientists and others to better understand the role that U.S. forests play in the global carbon cycle.»

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation