Sentences with phrase «make conservation work»

«I hope to really change the conversation and make people realize we have to ability [to make conservation work].»

«Making conservation work in Jamaica had a lot to do with understanding the local culture and people.»

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If you've ever heard Russell Simmons talk about making the arts accessible to disadvantaged kids through his RUSH Foundation or asked Ted Danson about his conservation work with Oceana, you know that passion can be contagious.

Coca - Cola is making an initial $ 2 million donation to the World Wildlife Fund to support polar bear conservation work.»

Born and raised in El Quetzalito, a rural community in the state of Petén, Guatemala, the 48 - year - old Román started working in 1990 with the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala (CONAP)-- the organization tasked with making the 2.1m - hectare (6m - acre) Maya Biosphere Reserve a reality — and has worked in conservation ever since, including as director of CONAP.

This vital work, to be carried out in alliance with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Honduran micro-finance institution FAMA, and Honduran conservation organization ICADE, aims not only to make smallholder businesses more competitive and self - sustaining, but to boost the communities» resilience to the impacts of climate change.

In Sweden, a working group made up of organic farmer groups, nature conservationists, Government agencies and universities has been working since 1997 to strengthen the links between organic agriculture and biodiversity conservation, and they set up biodiversity plans for organic farms.

This careful sourcing reflects our work with salmon conservation organizations and select fishermen and processors to make positive changes within the industry.

LINCOLN, MA — More than 650 people pitched in at Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries from Cape Cod to the Berkshires to make the respected conservation organization's annual «Work for Wildlife» Statewide Volunteer Day a grand success.

Your gift can help Mass Audubon expand our field research, science education, evidence - based advocacy, and public outreach work on critical conservation issues, and enable us to continue making meaningful impacts every year.

Mass Audubon worked with the Student Conservation Association, an AmeriCorps trail crew and led a volunteer effort to make sense of the existing trail network and simplify it so the visitor has a high - quality trail experience.

These women supporting work at the Nature Museum are among many in the Chicago region making a difference to nature and conservation.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

«The Chair of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee makes extra money by working at a law firm that lobbies on conservaConservation Committee makes extra money by working at a law firm that lobbies on conservationconservation issues.

New York League of Conservation Voters Endorses Brian Kavanagh for New York State Senate District 26 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 CONTACT: Jordan Levine (NYLCV)- 917-392-8965 / [email protected] The New York League of Conservation Voters, which works to make environmental sustainability a top political and policy priority in New York State, has announced its endorsement of Brian Kavanagh, who is running for New York State Senate in District 26.

In the first meetings with partner groups like Planned Parenthood and the League of Conservation Voters, «we decided to make sure that everyone was using the same data and working out of the same database,» he said, allowing the groups to feed the supporter data they were gathering into one file.

cuomos trying to move money from one state agency to another how slick is that, a governor who wants unsurped power so he can play king and do things that no other governor has done in new york state and yes governor cuomo, it has not escaped the eyes of the people who serve under you wanting to move money between state agencys example and this one is right on the money no funds for the department of environmental conservation in cuomos 2012/2013 budget for hydrofracking BUT HOLD ON IF HE CAN MOVE MONEY BETWEEN STATE AGENCYS THAT PROBLEM IS SOLVED IS IT NOT, HOW CONVIENENT GOVERNOR CUOMO AND YOU DO THIS IN THE NAME OF MAKING NEW YORK GOVERMENT WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY, how naive do you think upstaters are and that includes the politicians under you, YOU ARE NOT A KING AND YOU WILL NOT BE GRANTED THESE NEW UNSURPED POWERS SHAME ON YOU.

It's just going directly to a sort of well - oiled machine, which is made up of lobbyists here in Washington, D.C., or iMat PR firm and NDC and also apparently now with Pac / West they are working on a lot of land conservation issues.

According to the researchers, who work with the Nature Conservation Foundation in Mysore, the animal largely keeps to the forests and lives at altitudes up of 3500 meters, making it one of the highest - dwelling primates in the world.

Wolslegel works with conservation organisations and US law enforcement agencies to snare illegal hunters using robotic decoys made from real animal parts with electronics hidden inside.

Work is now being finalized on a much larger project around the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda, made famousby the film Gorillas in the Mist, where McGuinness is assessing the impacts of mountain gorilla, buffalo and golden monkey on the conservation of this park and the development of surrounding human communities.

«We're already working with public land managers and private landowners to make use of this valuable new information,» said Scott Bearer, Senior Conservation Scientist with The Nature Conservancy and one of the assessment's co-authors.

But the effort is too random and the work is crippled by international legislation, making it impossible to optimize the conservation efforts.

Important scientific advances in Revive & Restore's avian de-extinction work made for the perfect introduction to the growing applications of biotechnology for avian conservation.

Seeking to learn more about conservation decision making, Amelia spent the last three years working at the Centre as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on the prioritization of management actions on islands in Western Australia and Queensland.

Ever since I was a kid learning about the reintroduction of wolves as a keystone species I have made it my goal to work my way into the field of conservation biology.

A 2013 - 2014 Change the World project wrote a grant to get a California Conservation Corps energy audit for area schools, in order to work for our Advanced Placement Environmental Science's goal of making our high school a zero net energy school.

If you're going to aim for wealth conservation, then you may want to find other ways to build your wealth beyond investments (say via work / business) and then make sure that your portfolio takes a more defensive stance.

In 2012, we reported on Conservation Canines, another organization using the same strategy of adopting dogs whose energy and obsessive tendencies make them a poor match as family pets, but it's what makes them ideal for work in the field.

Working on a manatee conservation project not only offers you the chance to get up close and personal with these docile creatures, but also perform crucial work in monitoring and protecting their natural habitats to make a genuine contribution in the ongoing conservation effort.

«Their hard work and determination to support our public lands demonstrates that caring for our nation's natural and cultural resources helps to strengthen our communities, our public lands, and our commitment to making our country a world leader in conservation.»

Since 1980, Stubbs Island Whale Watching has worked tirelessly to make the experience of whale watching count for the sake of research and conservation.

I feel it is very important to recognize and help promote those who are making a effort to preserve our beautiful country of Belize, especially now that my work is including conservation on a deeper level.

Lizzie said: «We wanted to find a way to make hospitality work with conservation.

But the conservation of physical items is every bit as important as digitizing them, so we work closely with the major video game museums and archives to make sure artifacts have permanent homes.

2012 - 2013 syzygy, project space in a social housing flat in Elephant and Castle, hosting 8 residencies, workshop programs and curated exhibitions with invited UK and international artists, London 2011 - 2016 In The Company of Elders, reflections and performance with a group of Elders, London / Bath AWARDS AND GRANTS 2014 FreeSpace, awarded for impact and participation in The Big Lottery National funding Awards Wenlock Barn TMO, winners of national TMO Awards for involving community through Fourthland projects Awards for All funding, Wenlock Barn Estate, Meeting House 2011 - 2013 Big Lottery Funding, The Back Garden and Public Program, Wenlock Barn Estate 2010 - 2011 Big Lottery Funding, The Growing Kitchen Community, Wenlock Barn Estate 2008 - 2010 Shoreditch Trust Commission, The Growing Kitchen, Wenlock Barn Estate 2009 University of East London, Funding, Making architecture TEACHING 2015 Visiting Artists, Bergen Academy of Art and Design Norway Visiting Artists, CASS School of Art and Design Louise isik Sayarer (1982, British / Turkish) EDUCATION 2007 - 2011 BA Fine Art part time, Sir John Cass school of Art and Design, London 2006 Foundation in Art and Design, Sir John Cass School of Art and Design, London 2002 - 2005 BSc / BA Environmental Science and Development Studies, University of Sussex 2000 BTEC level 3 Tropical Habitat Conservation Madagascar Recent Training 2016 - 2017 Shakti dance 2015 - 2016 Dancing Tao - Movement Medicine circle Previous work 2008 - 2015 Artist associate SASA Works Architecture 2010 - present Bow Arts Trust, Education Artist 2007 - 2008 Education Officer Chelsea Physic Garden 2006 - 2007 Education Officer The Wildlife Trust 2005 Research associate Ethnomedica, Kew Gardens Eva Knutsdotter Vikstrom (1985, Norwegian / Swedish) EDUCATION 2009 - 2011 BA Fine Art, Sir John Cass school of Art and Design, London 2004 - 2005 Foundation in Art and Design, Einar Granum School of Art, Oslo Recent training 2015 - 2016 Kundalini Yoga teacher training Previous work 2014 - 2016 Art director for Ale Tarraf's feature film «Yupanqui» 2009 - 2011 The Readers performance Group LANGUAGES English Norwegian Swedish Spanish

The result of research conducted on two fronts — conservation and curatorial — the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut - outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his practice; their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies; their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent, a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing.

Spitzmueller makes historical models based on historical book features as well as one - of - a-kind artists» books influenced by her research and conservation work.

The attribution for the painting to Bosch himself was made by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and is based on examinations of the underdrawings, Bosch's brush work, motifs and details viewed microscopically as compared to Bosch's known paintings, reported the NYT.

Conservation concerns made it very difficult to persuade owners of Hesse's work — institutional and private collectors alike — to part with them even for a tour of only three venues.

The conservation department makes and implements decisions regarding treatments through constant review of the collection, and in response to requests to display specific works.

Together with the rest of the department's nine conservators, that new director will «further the work of the Guggenheim by supporting initiatives to make the museum's collection and the role of art conservation more transparent and accessible to the public,» the museum said in a release.

Founded in 2001, the Whitney's conservation department preserves works of art in the Museum's collection so that they may be exhibited and made accessible to scholars and the general public.

I'm seeking a reaction from the State Department, which has made tropical forest conservation a priority under both the Obama and Bush administrations, but of course is also juggling other issues — including working with Malaysia to deter terrorism by Islamic extremists.

Each such death is a robbery of the investment made by the American public, and negates countless hours of careful work by scientists, aviculturists, volunteers and others toward the conservation of this magnificent bird.

In a news article in Tico Times, Didiher Chacón, the coordinator for the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network program at the beach where Sandoval worked and died, was quoted as saying Sandoval had recently made statements in a national newspaper linking egg poaching to drug traffickers.

This was made possible by the work of the Conservancy, the government establishing Tortuguero National Park and the community embracing turtle conservation as a more sustainable local economy.

«Working on Capitol Hill made me understand the value of having leaders in Congress who support ocean conservation,» said Laura.

I sat down with American Rivers» Senior Vice President of Conservation, Chris Williams, to hear why he isn't surprised by the news out of Cape Town, why it's a big deal and how American Rivers is working across the country to make sure our communities are thinking and acting in smart ways when it comes to water in the era of climate change.

We also work with local communities to provide managers with tools and training to help make their reefs stronger in the face of climate change and we are partnering with NOAA to advance coral reef conservation efforts in seven United States coral reef jurisdictions.