Sentences with phrase «national conservation agencies»

You will work with a number of different projects including regional councils, national parks, museums and national conservation agencies.

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The governor announced the deployment of 20 members of the National Guard and a coordinated Lake Ontario Rapid Response Team which includes experts from the State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, National Guard, State Police, and Office of General Services, along with city and county agencies.

The New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) addition of the McCaffery Street plant site to the National Priorities List.

So there are great success stories, we are developing a national elephant conservation plant for Tanzania in cooperation with the government privately funded, and they were so excited about it, they began to co-fund it through their agencies, as difficult as that is for a country as poor as Tanzania.

The new database «is the most valuable effort to date to summarize the state of conservation and threats to the world's mammal populations,» says mammalogist Don Wilson of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «By detailing threats at the species level, it will now be possible for management agencies in every country in the world to prioritize their efforts to try to mitigate these threats.»

She is talking about Brazil's environmental regulators, including the national park agency, known as the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBIO), and the Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm, known as the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA).

«We hope to get initiatives like this all over the subcontinent, and they could all join together, and that would put pressure on the national governments to make the drug bans more effective,» says Chris Bowden, the Bangaluru, India — based program manager for Saving Asia's Vultures from Extinction, a consortium of conservation groups and government agencies.

In 1991, English Nature, the government's main conservation agency, began a small but potentially important experiment in «managed retreat» of the coastline at Northey Island, a small patch of salt marsh and grazing pasture owned by the National Trust in Essex's Blackwater estuary.

Moore's early career involved various positions with the National Park Service and other public agencies focusing on conservation, protected areas, and parks - and involving planning, management, and interpretation.

The TLC brings together the four agencies responsible for the management of Mount Tamalpais and its expansive lands (the National Park Service, California State Parks, Marin Municipal Water District, and Marin County Parks) and a conservation nonprofit (Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy) to combine resources, talent, and know - how for the long - term benefit of the mountain.

The three - day course on cross-sector collaboration attracted leaders from the National Park Service, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Ashoka Conservation Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, and others.

Georgia Aquarium Conservation Field Station (GACFS) is a member of the National Marine Fisheries Service Marine Mammal Stranding Network, which allows the Station to work with a variety of government agencies and non-profit institutions in response to large animal strandings or distress calls.

In 2014, four public land agencies (National Park Service, California State Parks, Marin County Parks, and the Marin Municipal Water District) teamed with the Parks Conservancy to form the Tamalpais Lands Collaborative — an initiative that brings together their resources, talents, and philanthropic efforts to support the stewardship, conservation, and enjoyment of Mt. Tamalpais.

They are NEAP (National Eco Tourism Accreditation Program) member and work closely with marine researchers, conservation and protection agencies.

She has worked in the Everglades for over 14 years, first with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) conducting land management on the Everglades Complex of Wildlife Management Areas north of Everglades National Park, and then with the agency's Nonnative Fish and Wildlife Program on invasive animal issues.

In the meantime, agencies such as the National Park Service, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and others are actively testing and applying control and eradication techniques, including trap development, refinement of visual searching methods, and testing detector dogs for locating pythons.

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.

The guidelines, which cover siting, construction, monitoring and operation, were developed with the help of an advisory committee composed of experts from universities, industry, government agencies and conservation groups, including Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society.

Subtitle G: Miscellaneous -(Sec. 271) Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to repeal the current energy performance requirement for federal buildings and to require each federal agency, in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to create an implementation strategy for the purchase and use of energy efficient information and communications technologies and practices.

-- Consistent with its authorities under other laws and with Federal trust responsibilities with respect to Indian lands, each Federal department or agency with representation on the National Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and integrate the elements of the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, programs, and activities related to the conservation, restoration, and management of natural resources.

Manomet was one of more than 30 National Forest managers, state natural resource managers, other federal agencies, universities, and conservation organizations who contributed to the New England Climate Change Response Framework project report.

This US - based think tank partnered with the Polish National Energy Conservation Agency (KAPE) and European Climate Foundation (ECF) to develop a tool to help... [Read more...]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency that conducts environmental research, said that the map «highlights wild, connected places that encompass a comprehensive range of ecosystems or rare species: It shows patterns that can help identify conservation priorities and provide a quantitative estimate of land's existing value.»

WildEarth Guardians has released a report grading states and federal agencies on their support of the cute critters and what they're doing to help keep the populations from shrinking further.Taking into consideration factors like habitat preservation, plague monitoring and conservation plans, the report card showed most states sitting below a B, with only Arizona and the National Park Service actually scoring a B. With all species declining and nearing threatened and endangered status, and the Mexican prairie dog currently listed as endangered, protection of this important animal is important.

In February, leaders from the Forest Service, the state wildfire - fighting agency CAL FIRE, and the National Park Service gathered with conservation groups and local fire councils to begin work on a statewide memorandum of understanding focused on the use of prescribed fire.

In 1990, Timms, who loves the outdoors, received the Department of Interior's National Conservation Award, its highest civilian award, for leadership as the Volunteer Coordinator of Kokopelli's Trail for bringing together numerous governmental agencies, private individuals, and businesses in Colorado and to create Kokopelli's Trail.

Job Notes: Most snake milkers are zoologists who work for national zoos and animal conservation agencies.