Sentences with phrase «land conservation policies»

The second was Compact Development, based on possible land use distribution in the region if authorities had implemented growth management and land conservation policies, such as density incentives and urban growth boundaries.

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Together with more than 100,000 members, we care for 35,000 acres of conservation land, provide school, camp, and other educational programs for 225,000 children and adults annually, and advocate for sound environmental policies at local, state, and federal levels.

In October 2015, Mass Audubon was awarded Land Trust Accreditation by the Land Trust Alliance, providing important independent confirmation that Mass Audubon's policies, practices, and programs meet or exceed national standards for excellence, uphold public trust, and ensure that our conservation actions will have permanence.

After moving last month against former President Obama's efforts to limit fossil fuel exploration and combat climate change, Trump will complete his effort to overturn environmental policy this week, signing two executive orders to expand offshore drilling and roll back conservation on public lands.

Conservation and green infrastructure projects would be pursued, along with improved land management policies.

Governments can try to conserve with stricter policies, activists can petition developers and farmers, and benefactors can buy land out of the goodness of their hearts (much like the investment firm Goldman Sachs, which recently purchased some 700,000 acres in Patagonia for conservation purposes).

Conservation policies had restricted access to ancestral lands, reducing the settlement to an island in a sea of game reserves.

Conservation groups allege that the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Department of Energy failed to consider the spirit of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and also violated the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.

«Other provisions within the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 would push for greater energy efficiency, updates to the energy grid, and a grid storage program; ease the permitting of natural gas pipelines; and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which provides money for habitat protection.

Policy makers and managers could use the index to guide decision making — for example, about whether offshore wind energy should be expanded in the U.S., whether land or ocean conservation measures will benefit coral reefs in Fiji and how marine - zoning plans in Brazil might affect overall ocean health.

Dávalos» team is now working to bring together a larger, interdisciplinary team of colleagues to create an intensive conservation management plan incorporating the expertise of conservation researchers, biologist, ecologists, policy - makers, educators, and land and wildlife management experts to save the last surviving native Caribbean mammals.

Unilever was also a player in palm oil trader Wilmar's recent agreement to adopt a no - deforestation policy, which prohibits its suppliers from establishing plantations on lands with large amounts of carbon — like peat soils — or lands with a high conservation value (ClimateWire, Dec. 8, 2013).

«While he has steered clear of efforts to sell off public lands and supported the Land and Water Conservation Fund, far more often Rep. Zinke has advanced policies that favor special interests,» said Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society, in a statement.

In addition to pricing carbon, aggressive policies are needed in three key areas: energy efficiency, low carbon energy, and land - use, which includes forest conservation and agriculture.

SALT LAKE CITY — A states» rights, public lands movement with its genesis in Utah was blasted by former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Thursday as an effort that threatens to undo the successes of American conservation policy.

Governor Kate Brown, Oregon; George Heyman, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Strategy, British Columbia; Sam Lemmo, Administrator, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Hawaii; Stephanie Zawistowski, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton

National policy should require greater emphasis on land areas that are less critical for other productive uses or for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

While land conservation continues to be the central tenet of the group's mission, it is extremely proud of the great strides made in the areas of public policy, outreach and education.

«It is not about building a barrier and stopping people coming into the protected area but addressing the drivers of deforestation by working with communities to create alternative livelihoods,» says Toby Janson - Smith, Senior Director for Climate and Land Use: Markets and Policy at Conservation International's Center for Environmental Leadership in Business.

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In closing, we thank you for your pledge to restore scientific integrity to policy development and specifically to decisions impacting the environment — including the conservation of our public lands.

Chevron's filing also cites numerous statutes that refute the plaintiffs» claims that fossil fuels unreasonably interfere with public rights, including the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1992, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Mining and Minerals Policy Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Federal Lands Policy Management Act, all of which specifically call for the production of oil and natural gas within the United States:

«The role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries; and alternative policy approaches, such as joint mitigation and adaptation approaches for the integral and sustainable management of forests,» is the «+» in «REDD +» — all the other land - use issues associated with farms and fields.

Provincial policy gives the industry «preferential access» to even the most well - protected conservation lands, according to Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, an official government watchdog and critic of its laissez - faire attitude toward the aggregate - industry.

«Working lands, like those managed by SFI - certified companies, represent some of the best opportunities for conserving forest bird breeding habitat,» says Jim Shallow, conservation and policy director for Audubon Vermont.

They have worked with peoples to identify principles of resource conservation and allocation so that those principles can inform water policy, land - use planning, environmental controls, and structures of business organization in Indigenous settings.

For example, in Western Australia, Conservation and Land Management (CALM) has developed policy on joint management of national parks, reflecting a willingness to move beyond the strict legal definition of native title rights.

For example, the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) consultation paper on joint management refers to the agreement as underpinning the policy shift on joint management.

16 Department of Conservation and Land Management (WA), Background to a draft policy statement on «Aboriginal involvement in Nature Conservation and Land Management», August 2000.

Strategies: development of management policy for land held by the Aboriginal lands Trust; negotiate access and economic rights to SA oceans, seas and waterways to support traditional and sustainable conservation and use practices; giving local Aboriginal heritage groups greater responsibility for heritage management; developing more appropriate ways to protect the authenticity, appropriation and misuse of Aboriginal art.