Sentences with phrase «nonprofit conservation group»

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

At least 24 species of other presumed or possibly extinct plants, insects and other organisms have been found during natural heritage surveys in North America since 1974, according to Mark Schaefer, president of NatureServe, a nonprofit conservation group based in Arlington, Va..

«De-extinction probability increases with every improvement in ancient DNA analysis,» said Stewart Brand, co-founder of the nonprofit conservation group Revive and Restore, which aims to resurrect vanished species including the passenger pigeon and the woolly mammoth, whose genomes have already been mostly pieced together.

Afognak is part of a growing movement of land trusts, nonprofit conservation groups and foundations that use carbon verification to support the protection of high - value ecosystems.

The ban is the result of more than a decade of work by many of the country's nonprofit conservation groups, including the Marine Turtle Restoration Project (Pretoma), MarViva Foundation and others.

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ST. PETERSBURG — Tampa Bay Watch, the conservation group based in Tierra Verde, will operate an outpost at the new Pier.In a unanimous vote, City Council members voted Thursday to give the nonprofit organization a five - year lease to offer marine edu...

An agreement recently reached between Jensen Meat and the Montana - based nonprofit organization American Prairie Reserve (APR) will help support the group's wildlife - friendly ranching and conservation efforts while also giving the company access to domestic, naturally raised and grass - fed beef.

Land trusts are typically community - based nonprofit groups that protect land by acquiring the land outright, or by entering into legal agreements called conservation restrictions, where landowners do not give up ownership, but instead agree to reduce the development potential of their land, generally in return for cash payment, tax advantages, or both.

The group's affiliated 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, seeks to encourage participation in the political process and educate the public and policymakers regarding what the group considers to be significant environmental issues.

After wrangling the support of Mayor de Blasio and the Wildlife Conservation Society, she helped grocery guru John Catsimatidis, ex-American International Group head Maurice Greenberg and TV host Yue - Sai Kan start the nonprofit The Pandas Are Coming to NYC.

«It's a very charismatic animal,» says Annemarieke Spitzen - van der Sluijs, a conservation biologist with Reptile, Amphibian & Fish Conservation Netherlands (RAVON), a nonprofit group based conservation biologist with Reptile, Amphibian & Fish Conservation Netherlands (RAVON), a nonprofit group based Conservation Netherlands (RAVON), a nonprofit group based in Nijmegen.

Many of the above conservation - oriented activities (and other opportunities) are listed on this volunteer on vacation site, provided by the Pacific Whale Foundation in partnership with various community groups and nonprofit organizations on Maui.

After a 2006 trip to Tanzania, he pondered setting up a nonprofit group focused on wildlife conservation but that didn't seem realistic living in Portugal (his wife works there).

The group, part of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, includes biologists in academia and government and at nonprofit conservation orConservation of Nature, includes biologists in academia and government and at nonprofit conservation orconservation organizations.

Cramp is now the program manager for the Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, a nonprofit environmental group based in the Cook Islands:

First Wind has followed that ethic in New England, said Ted Koffman, executive director of Maine Audubon, a nonprofit wildlife conservation group that has monitored large wind developments for more than a decade.

But as Tania Lown - Hecht, communications director of the Outdoor Alliance, a nonprofit public lands conservation group, points out, calling the GOP plan a «transfer» is a misnomer.

The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture is an unlikely gaggle of industry giants, nonprofit organizations, and conservation groups that are working to build a set of metrics in order to guide agriculture into a sustainable future.