Sentences with phrase «national bird conservation»

«Curious albatross chicks are ingesting the lead - based paint chips, which causes a variety of painful ailments and ultimately, a slow death,» said Dr. Jessica Hardesty Norris, Seabird Program director with the national bird conservation group.

(Washington, D.C., January 8, 2014) The Ohio National Guard facility at Camp Perry, near Port Clinton in northern Ohio, is the focus of possible legal action by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading national bird conservation organization, and Ohio's Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO), which today announced the intention to sue the Ohio National Guard in connection with violations of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) and other federal laws concerning the planned installation of a wind turbine on the shores of Lake Erie.

Not exact matches

Migratory birds really present a real conservation challenge because they don't respect national boundaries.

Pruthu had been working on elephant conservation at Yala National Park, a vast 242,000 - acre reserve outside Colombo that is home to elephants, leopards, wild buffalo, chital deer, and rare and magnificent birds like the lesser adjutant stork and the Malabar pied hornbill.

«Water in the West is a precious resource, and there is urgent need to better understand and manage use of water throughout the region for the benefit of birds and people,» said Stan Senner, vice president for bird conservation at the National Audubon Society.

The authors suggest that their findings reinforce the importance of the U.S. National Parks to the conservation of birds in the face of climate change and the value of monitoring species distribution to better inform conservation and management strategies.

«US national parks increasingly important for bird conservation in face of climate change: Projected average national park may have 29 percent more species in winter, 6 percent more in summer.»

While national data for environmental performance is limited and difficult to quantify, the research team were able to plot investment in two key agri - environment schemes, land «retirement» for conservation and limiting fertiliser use, against national trends for farmland bird populations and emissions from synthetic fertiliser across landmasses including the US, Canada, Australia and Europe.

While the Heath Hen and Passenger Pigeon de-extinction projects have begun to receive coverage in the press (see UnDark magazine «s piece on resurrecting the heath hen and National Geographic on reviving the passenger pigeon), the versatile uses of genomic technologies for avian conservation hasn't yet reached many professional and citizen scientists working to save birds and their habitats.

In August 2007, the journal Science published the results of a study * which concluded that the trans - national conservation measures required to be implemented by European Member States under the EU Birds Directive have made a significant contribution to reverse the population decline and provide protection for many of Europe's most threatened bird species.

Edge found her passion for conservation of birds after reading about the killing of 70,000 bald eagles in the Alaskan Territory — to which, there was no protest from the National Association of Audubon Societies, the leading bird conservation organisation at that time.

Actually, Franzen is more of an insider than the reporters let on; Franzen, winner of the 2001 National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist the following year, sits on ABC's board of directors, and he wrote the foreword to their recently released book, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation (brilliant move: ABC has been publishing fiction for years now; at last, they have somebody on board who does it well).

Tags: biodiversity, birds, conservation, conservation biology, mammals, Migratory Bird Center, migratory birds, Smithsonian's National Zoo

«American Bird Conservancy, the nation's leading bird conservation organization, and 27 additional science and conservation organizations have signed a letter to the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge supporting their plans to remove cats and cat feeding stations found on refuge lands in the Keys because of the harm they are causing to birds and other wildlife, including endangered species.&raBird Conservancy, the nation's leading bird conservation organization, and 27 additional science and conservation organizations have signed a letter to the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge supporting their plans to remove cats and cat feeding stations found on refuge lands in the Keys because of the harm they are causing to birds and other wildlife, including endangered species.&rabird conservation organization, and 27 additional science and conservation organizations have signed a letter to the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuge supporting their plans to remove cats and cat feeding stations found on refuge lands in the Keys because of the harm they are causing to birds and other wildlife, including endangered species.»

According to its Website, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is a «national and international leader in the biology and conservation of migratory birds.»

According to its website, the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center is a «national and international leader in the biology and conservation of migratory birds.»

Keep Cats Safe and Save Bird Lives is led by Nature Canada, the oldest national nature conservation charity in the country.

In fact, in a 2013 National Geographic article, Ken Rosenberg, director of conservation science at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, says that «the top three threats to birds overall are habitat loss, habitat loss, and habitat loss.»

Our team and staff are also actively involved in local conservation projects, such as the Placencia Mooring Masters and organizing the aunnual cleanup of Laughing Bird Caye, a national park and World Hertage Site.

West Bali National Park is not the only conservation spot for Bali Starling, now; Nusa Penida is a home of a hundred these nearly - extinct birds.

A 2010 report by FWS and other federal agencies, in collaboration with such conservation groups as the National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy, found that global warming will have an increasingly devastating effect on migratory birds in all habitats.

As host country for this year's WED and as part of the country's 150th Anniversary celebrations, the Canadian government is offering free entry to its national parks, migratory bird sanctuaries, and marine conservation areas.

Surprisingly, this is endorsed in the «State of Nature 2016» report, produced in collaboration by 50 conservation organisations — including the Botanical Society of Britain, Royal Society for the Conservation of Birds, Friends of the Earth, EarthWatch, National Biodiversity Network, Marine Conservation Society, Natural History Museum, conservation organisations — including the Botanical Society of Britain, Royal Society for the Conservation of Birds, Friends of the Earth, EarthWatch, National Biodiversity Network, Marine Conservation Society, Natural History Museum, Conservation of Birds, Friends of the Earth, EarthWatch, National Biodiversity Network, Marine Conservation Society, Natural History Museum, Conservation Society, Natural History Museum, and the WWF.

Dedicated to protecting birds and their habitats, this state program of the National Audubon Society has been a conservation leader, through advocacy and education, since 1996.

The legislation resolved concerns about effects to the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area and allowed the transmission line to be routed using the BLM Resource Advisory Council's (RAC) preferred alternative, which was also supported by the State of Idaho.

«We're not sure what the impact of this is going to be,» says Melanie Driscoll, a bird - conservation director with the National Audubon Society.