Sentences with phrase «government conservation programs»

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Nagle Company supports the U.S. commercial long line fleet along with the U.S. government's conservation programs so that environmentally sound fishing methods are developed and implemented, it says.

• The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Environmental Conservation are taking action to eliminate the NY Transient Emissions Short Test program, or NYTEST, a vehicle emissions test that is no longer required by the Federal government.

In addition to guiding all aspects of NISC Secretariat operations, Jamie is currently providing the leadership necessary to develop an Arctic Invasive Alien Species (ARIAS) Strategy and Action Plan under the Arctic Council's Conservation of Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME) working groups; produce a documentary on invasive species entitled, Protecting What Matters; establish an annual Innovation Summit to advance U.S. scientific and technical capacities to address the most pressing invasive species issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species programs.

Department of Energy programs that employ one of the federal government's largest group of scientists and engineers would face a 17.9 % decrease in programs including those that seek to advance energy production and conservation.

«Governors believe that the federal government should maintain its central role in promoting funding and developing a wide - ranging program of energy conservation and improved energy efficiency that considers all sectors of the economy,» NGA's resolution noted.

Federal officials say similar concerns weigh on other ranchers, and that «use it or lose it» statutes create a strong headwind for the government's conservation program, prompting ranchers to worry about becoming too efficient for their own good.

Working with other scientists and government officials, Jolly helped outline, implement and monitor a comprehensive conservation program.

«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

Bangladesh's «government was totally unprepared for this,» says Brian D. Smith, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Asian Freshwater and Coastal Cetacean Program.

To reach their conclusion, the researchers looked at a grassland experiment in Minnesota as well as lands converted from crops to grasslands through the U.S. government's Conservation Reserve Program.

The authors are members of the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program, a collaboration of academic, government, and nonprofit researchers focused on the conservation of tidal marsh birds.

He directs the program by catalyzing public - private - partnerships between governments and both the conservation and local communities.

Eventually, government soil - conservation programs, irrigation techniques, and other projects helped restore prosperity to the region.

Secured renewal of government funding for the Natural Areas Conservation Program and conservation of the Waldrom Grazing lands in soutConservation Program and conservation of the Waldrom Grazing lands in soutconservation of the Waldrom Grazing lands in southern Alberta

The government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) on conservation programs to protect endangered species threatened by all kinds of human impacts, including the feline companions we've kept by our sides for 9,500 years.

But because a shift to electricity (or fuel cells technology) is not going to happen overnight, the government needs to get busy in establishing programs that will bring about massive energy conservation now, to reduce the annual amount of GHG emissions.

In a statement, Joe Walston, who directs programs in Asia for the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is working with the Thai government on tiger conservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a signiConservation Society, which is working with the Thai government on tiger conservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a signiconservation projects, noted that the push against poachers has come at a significant cost.

The government program includes a moratorium on expansion of cultivation, control and prevention of forest fires, assessment of degradation impacts to determine future sustainable land use, implementation of sustainable land use, conservation of peatlands, a focus on resolving conflicts over resource issues, and enhancement of good governance.

She was eager, therefore, to meet with DRC government representatives, WWF, and others earlier this year to discuss plans for a forest conservation program in Maï - Ndombe, which USAID's CARPE program has set the foundation for creating.

Local communities, Democratic Republic of Congo government representatives, WWF, and others met earlier this year to discuss plans for a forest conservation program in Maï - Ndombe.

(Sec. 263) Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to expand the list of communities eligible for DOE's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Grant program to include small groups of adjacent, contiguous, or geographically proximate units of local government that reach agreement to act jointly.

The program also makes it possible for farmers who are still above their legal limit to either purchase Forest Reserve Credits (Cotas de Reserva Ambiental / «CRAs») from landonwers who are below their limits or to donate land that is inside recognized Conservation Units to a government environmental agency.

The Dialogue, co-sponsored by Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme - Cameroon (BDCPC), Cameroon Ecology, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED), and WRI's Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI), provided a forum for government and civil society members to talk frankly about strengthening governance as part of Cameroon's REDD + program.

Carbon Development Strategy is a ten year action plan that includes the energy sector: National Energy Efficiency Program Geothermal & Renewable Energy Program Offshore Hydrocarbon Program The Government launched a public sector energy conservation program in early 2010 and has accumulated baseline data on energy consumption at the MinistryProgram Geothermal & Renewable Energy Program Offshore Hydrocarbon Program The Government launched a public sector energy conservation program in early 2010 and has accumulated baseline data on energy consumption at the MinistryProgram Offshore Hydrocarbon Program The Government launched a public sector energy conservation program in early 2010 and has accumulated baseline data on energy consumption at the MinistryProgram The Government launched a public sector energy conservation program in early 2010 and has accumulated baseline data on energy consumption at the Ministryprogram in early 2010 and has accumulated baseline data on energy consumption at the Ministry level.

«Forest Trends leverages the real economic value of forests and ecosystems, motivating governments and businesses to make conservation a top priority,» said MacArthur Vice President Elspeth Revere, who leads the awards program.

Socio (s): GEF, Changning District, Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Shanghai Energy Conservation Supervision Center, Asia Sustainable and Alternative Energy Program, Government of Japan

The point made here is the federal government reducing how much land the conservation program can set aside.

The authors of this observation are Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick, in their report, «Demand Side Mismanagement: How Conservation Became Waste», wherein they also say the Government's official propaganda about spending billions to save billions more, when challenged, met with this answer: «The government replied «external financial audits were not performed on these programs,» and the rest of the information given was too vague to assess the government's claiGovernment's official propaganda about spending billions to save billions more, when challenged, met with this answer: «The government replied «external financial audits were not performed on these programs,» and the rest of the information given was too vague to assess the government's claigovernment replied «external financial audits were not performed on these programs,» and the rest of the information given was too vague to assess the government's claigovernment's claims.»

Mongabay has a complete list of the 13 protected areas already slated to benefit from the program: US forgives $ 30M in debt to protect rainforests in Sumatra, Indonesia Forest Conservation Tropical Forests Better Left Intact as Carbon Sinks Than Converted to Biofuel Plantations Indigenous Rights Crucial to Reducing Carbon Emissions from Deforestation Sumatra's Remaining Forests Get Government Pledge of Protection

Actioning broader lifestyle issues, the Australian Conservation Foundation, with funding from the state government, have put hundreds of Sydneysiders through their GreenHome education program and figure that in past few years they've saved about 116 Olympic sized swimming pools worth of water), reduced green house gas emissions equivalent to taking 1370 cars off the road and avoided 510 kilolitres of waste.