Sentences with phrase «international conservation group»

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

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It was developed in partnership with the non-profit environmental group Conservation International and SCS Global Services.

After wrangling the support of Mayor de Blasio and the Wildlife Conservation Society, she helped grocery guru John Catsimatidis, ex-American International Group head Maurice Greenberg and TV host Yue - Sai Kan start the nonprofit The Pandas Are Coming to NYC.

The groups supporting the agreement include American Electric Power, Conservation International, Duke Energy, El Paso Corp., Environmental Defense Fund, Disney Corp., Marriott International, Mercy Corps, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corp., Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Woods Hole Research Center.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The study's results currently are used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservaConservation of Nature's polar bear specialist group, which completes assessments of polar bears and issues the species» conservationconservation status.

International groups are working to raise the total to 10 per cent by 2020, while delegates to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's 2016 World Conservation Congress agreed that at least 30 per cent should be protected by 2030.

An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams on the Amazon river system has found that major negative ecological impacts can be expected both above the dams and throughout the lowland floodplains and the Amazon Delta, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, and other groups.

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) says this gives the species a 60 per cent chance of recovering within 15 years, but environmental groups say it is not enough to save the bluefin from commercial extinction.

If the report's conclusions are accepted by the African Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN), the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) may be split into two species: L. africana, for those living on the savanna, and L. cyclotis, for those in the forest.

In 2009, the Polar Bear Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported that eight polar bear subpopulations are declining, three are stable and one is increasing.

Private conservation groups including the Kentucky Fish & Wildlife Foundation, International Crane Foundation and Operation Migration contributed the funds for the reward.

«We estimated that over 28 thousand lemurs are kept illegally as pets in Malagasy cities over the last three years alone,» said Reuter, who has recently been appointed to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group.

Other green groups and corporations, including CarbonFootprint.com, CarbonCounter.org, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and British Oil Giant BP, among others, also offer carbon calculators on their websites.

The discovery has significant conservation implications, the researchers say, noting that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the laconservation implications, the researchers say, noting that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the laConservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the last 30 years.

This assessment means that species have been checked against a list of criteria published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a time - consuming process that has been completed for only three per cent of marine species, with no assessments at all in three quarters of the major groups of marine animals and plants.

CONTACTS: International Union for the Conservation of Nature, iucn.org; Predator Conservation Trust, predatorconservation.com; IUCN Hyaena Specialist Group, www.hyaenidae.org.

«Few people can see the really big picture, that human activities are resulting in the demise of tropical forests around the world and this has serious consequences,» said Anthony Rylands, deputy chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and senior research scientist at Conservation International.

Most recently, in October, the International Mire Conservation Group, an organisation of bog experts, expressed «particular alarm» at the rate of bog destruction in Britain.

«The results are disturbing because they suggest narwhals aren't physiologically equipped to sustain, in good health, repeated exposure to stressful events,» says Randall Reeves, a marine mammal expert in Hudson, Canada, who chairs the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Cetacean Specialist Group.

Strict legal frameworks would need to be adopted by nations, says Jean - Christophe Vié, deputy chair of the species survival group at the International Union for the Conservation of nature (IUCN), who was not involved with the proposal.

«This is something we've definitely been concerned about,» says ecologist Lee Hannah of Conservation International, who has studied climate paths in South Africa and Mexico and is part of the managed relocation working group.

«Canada is setting a world record in the contest to save the world's last great forests,» said Steve Kallick, Director of the Pew Environment Group's International Boreal Conservation Campaign.

The maps were based on data from eBird, a joint venture of Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, and BirdLife, an international network of conservation groups.

US - based groups such as EDF, The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International this week backed airlines» plans to join REDD, calling forest conservation «essential» to meeting aviatConservation International this week backed airlines» plans to join REDD, calling forest conservation «essential» to meeting aviatconservation «essential» to meeting aviation targets.

Nina has experienced science on a global scale; she worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research in Italy where she provided advice on the integration of molecular genetics techniques into conservation and plant breeding activities.

Through our involvement in the Federal Monarch Butterfly High Level Working Group, the National and Tri-National Monarch Science Partnership, and the Monarch Joint Venture, we are advancing the science and practice of monarch conservation, and shaping state, national, and international monarch conservation priorities.

The International Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group identifies priority research areas, synthesizes current and emerging blue carbon research and provides the robust scientific basis for coastal carbon conservation, management and assessment.

He is also the President of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Working Group on Wildlife and chairs the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission's Wildlife Health Specialist Group.

Dr. Fox lectures extensively to an international audience of conservation and animal protection groups.

These groups included Wildlife Conservation International (WCI), a division of the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), World Wildlife Fund, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Peace Corps, the Belize Department of Fisheries (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) and the Belize Audubon Society.

Belize Community Conservation — This group partners with international organizations and community members in the San Mateo subdivision of San Pedro to provide clean water education and training.

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LightHawk is an international group of volunteer pilots who donate their time to foster conservation efforts.

Conservation International is a great group that has several global warming and ocean acidification projects underway.

The group, part of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, includes biologists in academia and government and at nonprofit conservation orConservation of Nature, includes biologists in academia and government and at nonprofit conservation orconservation organizations.

So it's notable that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a network of institutions monitoring the world's veneer of living things, has produced a manifesto pushing environmental groups to broaden their view of what needs to be done to limit losses on a crowding planet.

As recently as December, the cetacean specialist group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, using satellite images, counted 90 shrimp - netting vessels operating within waters that were already, in theory, restricted.

Trailing Lula was a chorus of jeers from world environmentalists and civic groups, such as Conservation International, the Brazilian labor organization CUT, and even the United Nations Environment Program.

The occasion was the announcement of a new campaign to protect the world's rain forests, Guyana's included, organized by the environmental group Conservation International.

The meeting, International Wildlife Trafficking: Solutions to a Global Crisis, was organized by the Royal Zoological Society, Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups.

Nov. 16, 2009 The latest meeting of the international commission created to manage harvests of tunas and other wide - ranging fish species in the Atlantic Ocean ended by setting 2010 quotas for bluefin tuna that conservation groups and United States fisheries officials said were — while lowered — still far too high to allow the imperiled fish to recover.

I received the following dispatch earlier today from Susan Lieberman, who's attending the meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, or ICCAT, as an observer for the Pew Environment Group:

Several of the authors work for large environmental groups such as WWF and Conservation International, which have put a lot of time and effort into showing that «low - impact logging» can co-exist with protecting biodiversity.

The shipments are part of a growing international trade in whale and whale products — Japan is by far the dominant buyer — that has prompted growing criticism from the conservation group and other whale campaigners.

«Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions,» said Julia Marton - Lefèvre, the director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or I.U.C.N., a network of campaign groups, governments, scientists and other experts.»

Here's some input from Steven Amstrup, who became chief scientist for the conservation group Polar Bear International this year after decades spent studying polar bears for the United States Geological Survey.

Forest Trends is a Washington D.C. - based international non-profit organization that was created in 1999 by leaders from conservation organizations, forest products firms, research groups, multilateral development banks, private investment funds and philanthropic foundations.

Kenya's elephants could be among the animals harmed by harsh new laws to hamstring the programs of international environmental groups such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and World Wide...

While Mr. Kempthorne and Dale Hall, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Wednesday that they saw no separate risk to polar bears from oil and gas activity, the latest assessment of the species for the International Conservation Union, by a group of experts including Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, did include such activity in a list of threats, including toxic contaminants, shipping and recreational viewing.