Sentences with phrase «major conservation issues»
Scientists and locals combine forces to tackle those major conservation issues.
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The issues of water conservation and threatened wildlife are major problems for the Sonoran Desert environment as more and more people settle in the «valley of the sun.»
Dams are a major issue in conservation.
M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.
A major spill of coal ash in Tennessee in 2008 drew attention to the issue, and in 2010, the EPA proposed regulating coal ash under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), either under RCRA's hazardous waste provisions, which would give EPA more extensive authority, or under the non-hazardous waste provisions.
Major waves of urbanization and dam construction, as well as poaching, overgrazing and overfishing, pollution, and excessive irrigation, threaten to destroy species and ecosystems that have survived 10,000 years of human land use, according to the paper, which was published last week in the December issue of Biological Conservation following an eight - year research process.