Sentences with phrase «in wildlife projects»

She has spent time at both Vienna Zoo and Budapest Zoo and has participated in wildlife projects with Chamois in Austria and Elephants in Indonesia.

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Similar to the African Elephant Pepper Project, wildlife experts in Guwahati (North - east India) are now trying to fend off marauding elephants from destroying homes and crops with the help of hot peppers: As part of an experimental project in Assam, they erected jute fences, coated with grease and Bhut JProject, wildlife experts in Guwahati (North - east India) are now trying to fend off marauding elephants from destroying homes and crops with the help of hot peppers: As part of an experimental project in Assam, they erected jute fences, coated with grease and Bhut Jproject in Assam, they erected jute fences, coated with grease and Bhut Jolokia.

But then wildlife experts tried the mortar - thrown net, a device originally designed to capture waterfowl, and the most successful wildlife restoration project in recent history was under way.

We offer many opportunities to participate in wildlife research and protection efforts as a citizen science volunteer in our monitoring and survey projects.

Throughout the school year and during the summer, students practice science skills through the study of local habitats, learn about Massachusetts» native wildlife, work as a team to plan and execute stewardship projects that benefit their school and the larger Lowell community, and participate in community - based events.

When Bob Wilber was first approached about Mass Audubon purchasing the land at Tidmarsh Farms for a future wildlife sanctuary in 2011, he was immediately awestruck by the potential of this project.

They Include: * Individuals, families, and corporate or community groups * Students, parents, professionals, and retirees * Seasonal, weekly, occasional, or one - time volunteers Depending on their interests, experience, and the time they have available, volunteers contribute to Mass Audubon in a variety of meaningful ways — welcoming visitors to the sanctuaries, maintaining trails, tending gardens, submitting wildlife observations, educating people of all ages, assisting with ecological management projects.

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.

The billionaire head of IAC Corp. said he became particularly disenchanted with the project in the spring after a judge ruled that work on the park needed to stop because the Army Corps of Engineers did not view the site as a protected fish and wildlife sanctuary when issuing its permit.

Waukesha County culvert extension project threatens Butler's garter snake Madison (AP)-- State wildlife officials say a road project in Waukesha County might end up killing a rare snake.

Madison (AP)-- State wildlife officials say a road project in Waukesha County might end up killing a rare snake.

«The research fills an important gap in our understanding of the vulnerability of tropical river - forest systems to changes in climate and land cover,» said the project's leader, Leandro Castello, assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

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.

With the arrival of wind energy projects in Kansas and throughout the Plains, Sandercock and his team were part of a consortium of stakeholders — including conservationists, wildlife agencies and wind energy companies — who studied how these wind projects influence grassland birds.

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.

It is surprising that members of Tanzania Wildlife Conservation Monitoring, a joint project of different governmental wildlife protection authorities and the Frankfurt Zoological Society, which has been carrying out aerial surveys in Tanzania's protected areas since 1986, were apparently not consulted.

Geoff has worked on a number of ground - breaking research projects to identify adverse health effects in wildlife and the molecules responsible.

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.

The wildlife populations of this spectacular landscape have been subject to heavy poaching during various periods over the past decades, and conservation efforts in the area, carried out thanks to longstanding EU financial support through PDRN, ECOFAC and ECOFAUNE projects, have been negatively impacted by the past three years of armed conflict.

In a January editorial in Science, Alvarez, Huete - Perez and Axel Meyer, a professor of biology at the University of Konstanz Germany, wrote, «It is incumbent upon scientists, human rights advocates, nongovernmental organizations and wildlife protection organizations to share knowledge, voice concerns, provide guidance and demand a greater role for science in the design and construction of this massive project.&raquIn a January editorial in Science, Alvarez, Huete - Perez and Axel Meyer, a professor of biology at the University of Konstanz Germany, wrote, «It is incumbent upon scientists, human rights advocates, nongovernmental organizations and wildlife protection organizations to share knowledge, voice concerns, provide guidance and demand a greater role for science in the design and construction of this massive project.&raquin Science, Alvarez, Huete - Perez and Axel Meyer, a professor of biology at the University of Konstanz Germany, wrote, «It is incumbent upon scientists, human rights advocates, nongovernmental organizations and wildlife protection organizations to share knowledge, voice concerns, provide guidance and demand a greater role for science in the design and construction of this massive project.&raquin the design and construction of this massive project.»

Scientists at the University of Sydney have analysed up to 22 years of long - term monitoring data on plants and animals in central Australia to project how changing rainfall and wildfire patterns, because of climate change, will influence desert wildlife.

Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt, who founded the project in 2009, hope the photos help excite interest in otherwise overlooked wildlife.

(I blurbed her book: «With humour and accuracy, Helen Pilcher surveys the wondrous array of wildlife de-extinction and preservation projects that employ current breakthroughs in genomic technology.»)

It undertakes practical conservation projects, surveys and scientific studies, conducts annual monitoring of seabird populations, rescues wildlife in trouble, publishes guides and information on many aspects of the Falkland Islands environment, and involves islanders of all ages in its activities, including running a WATCH group for children.

The projects aims to give us further knowledge in areas as diverse as coral reefs ecosystem, the dietary composition in wildlife and domestic animals over the last 50 000 years, the effects of antibiotic exposure on microbial ecosystems, and changes in biodiversity that might have an effect on or are affected by climate change.

Revive & Restore, a project of the Long Now Foundation based in San Francisco, is a nonprofit organization with a mission to enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of endangered species — acting as a catalyst to encourage the responsible use of genomic technologies for wildlife conservation.

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.

They are including our project in their wildlife vet development project in Seychelles and Mauritius which was mainly focused on birds so expanding to turtles and terrapins is a good move!

Each projects a feral sexuality, a rangy angularity that's reminiscent of graceful wild animals, beautiful but dangerous, and watching them at work is like seeing a superior wildlife documentary with sex and slaughter thrown in for good measure.

Classroom Wilds: Tom Furrer, who teaches forestry and wildlife in Petaluma, California, stumbled on the idea for a hatchery project during a stroll.

Our Non-Profit Educational Project in collaboration with the NAPO WILDLIFE CENTER offers an ALL EXPENSE PAID COMPREHENSIVE AMAZON TRIP, FULL ROOM & BOARD, ROUND TRIP AIRFARE, for Global Scholars interested in Studying a topic of their academic passion in the Yasuni, State Park in Ecuador for 4, 8 and 12 week terms.

Members of The Ecology Consultancy's team of expert ecologists visit local primary schools to deliver wildlife themed, classroom based workshops to educate pupils about how the development is being carried out in a way that protects local wildlife and in conjunction with members of the developer's project team they also provide a broader view of the project's environmental activities.

In 1997, she and her students in grades 4 - 5 created the Adopt - a-Farmer Project, and, in conjunction with the NatureMapping program, students honed their reading, writing, and math skills while making meaningful contributions to science through tracking local wildlife; under Petersen's guidance, the project continues to study the short - horned lizard (a.k.a. the horny toad) todaIn 1997, she and her students in grades 4 - 5 created the Adopt - a-Farmer Project, and, in conjunction with the NatureMapping program, students honed their reading, writing, and math skills while making meaningful contributions to science through tracking local wildlife; under Petersen's guidance, the project continues to study the short - horned lizard (a.k.a. the horny toad) todain grades 4 - 5 created the Adopt - a-Farmer Project, and, in conjunction with the NatureMapping program, students honed their reading, writing, and math skills while making meaningful contributions to science through tracking local wildlife; under Petersen's guidance, the project continues to study the short - horned lizard (a.k.a. the horny toad)Project, and, in conjunction with the NatureMapping program, students honed their reading, writing, and math skills while making meaningful contributions to science through tracking local wildlife; under Petersen's guidance, the project continues to study the short - horned lizard (a.k.a. the horny toad) todain conjunction with the NatureMapping program, students honed their reading, writing, and math skills while making meaningful contributions to science through tracking local wildlife; under Petersen's guidance, the project continues to study the short - horned lizard (a.k.a. the horny toad)project continues to study the short - horned lizard (a.k.a. the horny toad) today.

Students also conduct service projects in their community, using either water conservation or threatened wildlife as subject matter.

Welcome Future Global Professors and College Scholars of: Yasuni - Amazona, «The Rain Forest Project» YASUNI Symbolizes Abundance of Life on Earth Our Non-Profit Educational Project in collaboration with the NAPO WILDLIFE CENTER offers an ALL EXPENSE PAID COMPREHENSIVE AMAZON TRIP, FULL ROOM & BOARD, ROUND TRIP AIRFARE, for Global Scholars interested in Studying a topic of their academic passion in the Yasuni, State Park in Ecuador -LSB-...]

Project Wild offers both in person or online wildlife conservation training for teachers.

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.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced $ 12.5 million in grants for 29 projects in 20 states to improve access to America's national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges.

The project aims to document every species currently housed in zoos and educate the public on such wildlife to promote understanding and conservation efforts.

«San Diego has the most diverse wildlife of any city in the United States,» says Trish Jackman, Director of Wildlife Rehabilitation at Project Wildlife, a new adopted program of San Diego Humane Society.

Since 1972, Project Wildlife has operated in a Wildlife Triage Center that is not sufficient to meet the growing needs of wildlife rehabilitation in San Diego.

As the only resource in the county for the majority of wildlife to receive help, Project Wildlife provides an invaluable service to animals.

Clinic212 — a marketing campaign agency in Lithuania — has started a project dedicated to the local wildlife, particularly the little ones.

Project Wildlife relies on the public, local businesses, government agencies and other animal organizations to bring wildlife in need of help to Project Wildlife's care center on Sherman Street or one of its 60 satellite sites.

Animal experience can include work on a livestock farm, with a humane society, zoo or kennel, showing animals as 4 - H projects, wildlife rehabilitation, and working with animals in other kinds of competitions or businesses.

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.

She worked several years for Idaho Fish and Game, the United States Forest Service in southeast Alaska, and participated in many wildlife research projects throughout the west.

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.»

In the spring, Project Wildlife would take in up to 300 injured or sick animals each week and, as the only local emergency trauma center for injured wildlife, always had to keep its doors opeIn the spring, Project Wildlife would take in up to 300 injured or sick animals each week and, as the only local emergency trauma center for injured wildlife, always had to keep its doors opein up to 300 injured or sick animals each week and, as the only local emergency trauma center for injured wildlife, always had to keep its doors open.

In 2008, Dr. Kramer became licensed to practice in six U.S. states and began serving as a per diem vet at exotic animal practices, universities, wildlife clinics, and conservation field projects around the worlIn 2008, Dr. Kramer became licensed to practice in six U.S. states and began serving as a per diem vet at exotic animal practices, universities, wildlife clinics, and conservation field projects around the worlin six U.S. states and began serving as a per diem vet at exotic animal practices, universities, wildlife clinics, and conservation field projects around the world.