Sentences with phrase «great conservation work»

By donating your Hilton Honors Points to The Nature Conservancy, we can expand that great conservation work to meet the challenges ahead.

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i have the great good fortune to work in a non-profit world where working for conservation allows me to fulfill many spiritual interests and directions - supporting a threatened species and involving different people in that process.

Salvanatura is the main conservation organization in El Salvador, and it has done a great deal of work specifically with coffee farms, both research on biodiversity, preparing and critiquing Rainforest Alliance certification guidelines, and aiding in certification efforts.

Named after native Illinois prairie animals, these groups are a great way to share your love of nature, and support innovative educational programs and local conservation work at the same time.

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.

I take great pride as a long - serving member of the Erie County Legislature and I am also working to better our community and the district as the chair of the Erie County Soil and Water Conservation

This gorgeous book, which includes the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and recent surprising discoveries of field scientists, will convince you that the elephant is one of nature's greatest and most original works.

Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes — except that it won't work, says a University of Guelph ecologist.

The recent spike in the number of juvenile great white sharks off California's coast is a strong indication that marine life conservation efforts are working, says Dr. Chris Lowe, director of the Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab (pictured releasing a juvenile shark).

His paper proposes one tool, the «systems behaviour chart», which conservation managers can use to focus their decisions, goals and interventions on the purpose of conservation work, in order to act faster and with greater impact to save species.

«It's a bitter irony that western conservation scientists who are working on providing the information needed to protect tropical forests have a much greater personal carbon footprint than almost anyone they will meet abroad,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.

Her postdoc work includes scenario planning, land use change modelling, impact assessments, and development of conservation goals and priorities for coastal protection and restoration for the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.

As an advocate of trap - neuter - return working for one of that nation's leading animal welfare organizations, Best Friends Animal Society — and somebody quite familiar with the science surrounding TNR and free - roaming cats in general — I feel compelled to respond to R. Scott Nolen's recent article («Cats may be greater threat to wildlife than first thought,» JAVMA News, April 1, 2013) about the paper published earlier this year by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

Kent's singular act — a donation by a private individual to preserve lands for greater public benefit — has shown the way for 100 years of environmental and conservation work around the Bay.

The world owes great thanks to Alan Rabinowitz for his hard work and role in this great achievement; and in conservation for all big wild cat species.

He spends a lot of his time working along the BC coast & when possible works with conservation charities in the Great Bear Rainforest & with the eco-tourism industry.

Accompany famous photographer and former «Miss World», Monako, as she experiences the Great Ocean Ecolodge, explores the grounds of the Conservation Ecology Centre and shares our work in raising tiny orphaned joeys.

The Great Ocean Ecolodge and Conservation Ecology Centre are the life's work of Shayne and Lizzie.

Written by Maddy Gribbon The team of staff at the Great Ocean Ecolodge and the Conservation Ecology Centre it supports is small and committed, giving the work environment a uniquely familial feel.

The Conservation Ecology Centre and Great Ocean Ecolodge are proud to be working with Melbourne Birding Tours to offer this very special birding experience.

«The Mogao Caves are the greatest repository of early Chinese art, and it spans a thousand years, from the fourth to the 14th century,» says Mimi Gates, former director of the Seattle Art Museum and current chairman of the Dunhuang Foundation, which works to increase public awareness of the site and raise funds toward its conservation.

While it seems as though these appalling figures and the wide - spread discrediting of rhino horns as medicine seems to have done little to curb the slaughter, those working to save Thandi and Themba hope the animals» needlessly marred faces will help stir greater involvement towards the conservation of their species.

With an emphasis on achieving results and working in partnership, we take on the greatest problems facing birds today, innovating and building on rapid advancements in science to halt extinctions, protect habitats, eliminate threats, and build capacity for bird conservation.

That's why American Rivers is working to establish blue trails through our Blue Trails Initiative TM — a great way to connect people to their hometown rivers while boosting tourism, civic pride and a conservation ethic.

Having successfully pushed for the Ontario Offshore Moratorium, and her organizations having effected the moratoria for two cities near Toronto and the largest regional conservation authority in Ontario (Toronto and Region Conservation Authority), she is now working with other Ontario groups, such as Manitoulin and Central Huron and other vulnerable and at - risk communities around the Great Lakeconservation authority in Ontario (Toronto and Region Conservation Authority), she is now working with other Ontario groups, such as Manitoulin and Central Huron and other vulnerable and at - risk communities around the Great LakeConservation Authority), she is now working with other Ontario groups, such as Manitoulin and Central Huron and other vulnerable and at - risk communities around the Great Lakes and Basin.

Further drilling and tunneling work would cause much greater irreparable damage to the conservation area.»

He spends a lot of his time working along the BC coast & when possible works with conservation charities in the Great Bear Rainforest & with the eco-tourism industry.

Youth Conservation Program Moose, Wyoming · Worked with a team to contribute to the resources of the Greater Yellowstone Area and the National Park system, including trail building, fire management, wildlife pro- tection and historic structure preservation.