Sentences with phrase «more land conservation»

Other co-benefits have to do with obviously just higher density leading to more land conservation and lower water demand (which are a big issue out here in the west), and lower levels of infrastructure investment, which translates back into affordability, not just for the climate change solution, but more affordability for everyday life.

«MLTC's annual Land Conservation Conference plays such an important role in enabling more land conservation to take place; the unprecedented turnout is no surprise,» said Bob Wilber, Mass Audubon Director of Land Conservation and a former Coalition President.

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In practice, this meant more public land was set aside for conservation purposes and, in the areas still open to logging, cut blocks — those strategically shorn sections of forest seen in aerial photos — grew smaller.

The budget calls for more enforcement money for the FDA to step up drug safety rules, more for the EPA to crack down on industrial polluters, additional funds to protect endangered species and land and water conservation and to protect wildlife from climate change.

This magazine believes devoutly in conservation not only because it means more room to play in, better views to look at and a greener land to live in, but because the principle it represents is the essence of sport itself, the point and purpose of its being.

Through the leadership and assistance we offer other conservation groups, we affect the conservation of more land than we ever even touch.

The Conference is expected to draw 500 or more participants from throughout the Bay State's environmental community and has become the nation's largest regional gathering of land conservation advocates.

Located at Mass Audubon Headquarters in Lincoln, MA, the unit is responsible for acquisition of land and rights in land for conservation purposes, and stewardship of more than 37,500 acres with new properties and Wildlife Sanctuaries being added every year.

LINCOLN, MA — The Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference, convened annually by the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition and taking place Saturday, March 22, at Worcester Technical High School, will feature more than 30 workshops designed to connect people with nature, including a presentation on greater access to the outdoors for individuals with disabilities.

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.

Mass Audubon is proud to have such an effective state wildlife conservation agency, which manages more than 160,000 acres of land, and we look forward to continuing to partner with them on areas of common interest.

Last Saturday's Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference, for which Mass Audubon was a major sponsor, drew more than 540 environmental advocates, the largest turnout in the Conference's 24 - year history.

LINCOLN — Last Saturday's Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference at Worcester Technical High School drew more than 540 environmental advocates, the largest turnout in the Conference's 24 - year history.

Providing an invasive species management handbook to Mass Audubon's education staff and to more than 200 conservation land managers across the state.

«Today, my signature on these surveyed maps clears the way for the affected property owners to be free of the state's claim to lands that in many cases have been privately occupied for more than a century,» said state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos in a statement.

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

East of the Missouri River, where efforts have been specifically targeted toward waterfowl conservation, lands under conservation management were more likely than other locations to be used by Whooping Cranes.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegalConservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegalconservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

Now, leading conservationists writing in the journal Science are calling on policymakers to harness the potential of higher - yield farming to spare land for conservation, instead of solely producing more food and profit.

Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.

Titled «Resilient Sites for Terrestrial Conservation,» the study analyzed more than 156 million acres of land stretching from Virginia to Maine and into adjacent portions of Canada.

Other high biodiversity areas, such as Amazonia, which have seen no land use change have higher levels of biodiversity and more scope for proactive conservation.

The study, which involved experiments in supermarkets, shows that the higher prices consumers were willing to pay for conservation grade palm oil — akin to Fair Trade programs — more than made up for companies» costs of providing conservation land.

«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.

Born and raised on Martha's Vineyard, Tom brings a deep understanding of land - use change to the conservation of Massachusetts's coasts, including making residential landscapes more supportive of essential ecological processes.

It covers approximately 78 hectares of land consisting of swamp and savannah... Read More FUN THINGS TO DO AT THE LEKKI CONSERVATION CENTRE.

Development of the expressway has included setting aside more than 3,400 acres of land for conservation.

Mr. Rupani's sixth book after the critically acclaimed Driving Holidays in India and More Driving Holidays in India and India's 100 Best Destinations; the book tracks the wild feline through India's best tiger reserves and was compiled with the support of Land Rover's primary global conservation partner, the Born Free Foundation.

of public land necessitated a more systemic and comprehensive approach to conservation.

Within a few years, Prof. Maathai realised that the illegal and corrupt privatisation of public land necessitated a more systemic and comprehensive approach to conservation.

This crater contains more than 18 acres of land, and has been designated a marine life and bird conservation area.

Conservation photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter have been capturing fine art photographs of wildflowers across America's Western public lands — from Death Valley to Colorado's San Juan Mountains — for more than 20 years.

Having established some of the most broad - reaching conservation measures of any island in the Caribbean, more than a quarter of St. Kitts is now protected land.

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The conservation Ecology Centre also acquires and restores degraded land, and with this has turned the land around by planting more than 80,000 trees.

The uman migration trend will release more lands to wilderness», NY Times, From Conservation to Population, a New Look at Planet Earth, DOT EARTH, The New York Times, October 30, 2007.

Some conservation groups have realized that the slow growth in demand for calories as well as pulp and paper are creating big chances to reserve or protect more land.

The free to the public Expo was sponsored by Hudson Highlands Land Trust, a local non-profit land conservation organization, and Teatown Lake Reservation, a nature preserve and environmental education center in Westchester County and was attended by more than 350 adults and childLand Trust, a local non-profit land conservation organization, and Teatown Lake Reservation, a nature preserve and environmental education center in Westchester County and was attended by more than 350 adults and childland conservation organization, and Teatown Lake Reservation, a nature preserve and environmental education center in Westchester County and was attended by more than 350 adults and children.

U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko — «Collaboration is central to protecting the Hudson Valley's rich agricultural lands, and Scenic Hudson's Foodshed Conservation Plan shows how partners can maximize their investment — conserving more farmland that sustains jobs, helps keep our air and water clean, and supplies our residents with the freshest, healthiest foods.»

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has an ambitious plan to scale up green infrastructure, using green roofs, land conservation, permeable pavement and other approaches to help slow and absorb water during the extreme precipitation events that are becoming more common with climate change.

ODOT and the Department of Land Conservation and Development are leading the Oregon Sustainable Transportation Initiative, a statewide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation while creating healthier, more livable communities and greater economic opportunity.

Furthermore, the team found that land that had been cultivated using conservation tillage since the 1980s had been able to recover more than a fourth of the soil organic carbon it had lost.

Working with our partners across the Western Hemisphere, we have defined more than 50 BirdScapes that take into account a combination of factors, including distribution and abundance of target species, land cover data, socioeconomic conditions, and more, to ensure that strategic conservation investment provides long - term benefits to the species that need it most.

Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana — A coalition of conservation groups today stepped up efforts to safeguard the climate from dirty energy, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its approval of more than 350 million tons of new coal mining in the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming.

Today, as Scenic Hudson's Assistant Land Conservation Director, I direct our work in farmland protection - and I'm even more excited because we've become a national leader in developing innovative strategies to secure productive agricultural land essential for sustaining supplies of fresh, healthy fLand Conservation Director, I direct our work in farmland protection - and I'm even more excited because we've become a national leader in developing innovative strategies to secure productive agricultural land essential for sustaining supplies of fresh, healthy fland essential for sustaining supplies of fresh, healthy food.

Conservation more effective than biofuels for fighting global warming (8/15/2007) Conserving forests and grasslands may be a more effective land - use strategy for fighting climate change than growing biofuel crops argues a new paper published in the journal Science.

And it's no less troubling when human rights are violated in the name of conservation or renewable energy; the United States evicted indigenous populations from their land in order to establish the national parks, for example, or, more recently, the massive land grabs that have taken place in the global south, where land is cheap, for biofuel production, solar plants, and wind farms.

Lacking from this conversation is a more robust analysis about the ways land governance, resource rights arrangements, and land use planning — the social aspects of the conservation challenge — affect mangrove conservation and rehabilitation.

Since its 1972 launch, the Trust for Public Land has completed more than 3,500 land - conservation projects in 47 states, protecting more than two million acres that define America's communities and are central to its ecosystLand has completed more than 3,500 land - conservation projects in 47 states, protecting more than two million acres that define America's communities and are central to its ecosystland - conservation projects in 47 states, protecting more than two million acres that define America's communities and are central to its ecosystems.

Additionally the Hudson Highlands Land Trust can claim a lead role in protecting several thousand more acres through partnerships with other regional land - conservation organizations — including Scenic Hudson — and New York StLand Trust can claim a lead role in protecting several thousand more acres through partnerships with other regional land - conservation organizations — including Scenic Hudson — and New York Stland - conservation organizations — including Scenic Hudson — and New York State.