Sentences with phrase «of ecological conservation»

We are unique in our efforts to bring the role of private lands to the forefront of ecological conservation.

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In the area of the environment, the Party is committed to improving air quality, ensuring clean drinking water, and greater conservation of sensitive ecological areas.

In «Four Forms of Ecological Consciousness Reconsidered,» he first distinguishes «resource conservation,» «wilderness preservation,» and «moral extensionism.»

1.2 the ecological and conservation values of the asset (s) including those recognised by international agreements.

Organic agriculture is dependent upon stabilizing agro-ecosystems, maintaining ecological balances, developing biological processes to their optimum, and linking agricultural activities with the conservation of biodiversity.

Current approaches to ecological agriculture such as integrated pest management, integrated plant nutrition systems and conservation tillage, consider only one aspect of the farming system components: pest ecology, plant ecology and soil ecology, respectively.

Luis C. Rodriguez is an ecological economist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems working on the design of efficient and equitable economic instruments to achieve both environmental conservation and poverty alleviation objectives.

The establishment of semi-natural habitats within organic systems and the avoidance of pesticide use contribute to maintaining the biological connectivity and the larger ecological web, which benefit both agriculture and nature conservation.

The Glen Ellyn Park District has been working with Conservation Design Forum, an ecological design company, and landscape architects Farr Associates since early June to create a master plan for the park at a cost of about $ 56,000.

The company will pay $ 640,000 to the state, and identify and acquire additional conservation land «that provides ecological functions equivalent to the land impacted by the pipeline» such as the nearly two miles of pipeline through pristine Otis State Forest.

Amber Carr is the Director of Mass Audubon's Ecological Extension Service, a fee - for - service program where we share management expertise with our conservation partners.

Mass Audubon's commitment to this innovative digital resource spans the organization's departments, from Ecological Management and Land Conservation to our «Shaping the Future of Your Community» program, which will be conducting a series of MAPPR workshops to help communities use this powerful new tool to identify which parcels are most important to protect, while guiding development to less sensitive locations.

«Whether a natural resource professional, land trust volunteer, or local conservation advocate, users will find MAPPR to be an efficient and effective tool for gaining valuable insights into targeted land conservation in the 21st century,» said Jeff Collins, Mass Audubon Director of Ecological Management and project lead.

Jeff Collins is Director of Mass Audubon's Ecological Management Department, coordinating habitat management planning and activities on our wildlife sanctuaries as well as assisting conservation partners through our Ecological Extension Service.

The company will also have to identify and acquire additional conservation land «that provides ecological functions equivalent to the land impacted by the pipeline» such as the nearly two miles of pipeline through pristine Otis State Forest.

Department of Fish & Game's Division of Ecological Restoration, Gloucester - based environmentalist Noel Mann, and Bryan Windmiller, founder of Concord - based Grassroots Wildlife Conservation.

I participated in an integrated study of the Lama Forest that considered ecological and socio - economic aspects and contributed to the conservation of the forest and the rehabilitation of degraded areas.

As of May of this year, I have been working as a research scientist at the Botanische Staatssammlung München, and I remain co-director of the Taï Monkey Project, coordinating ecological and conservation - oriented research in the Taï National Park.

Whether the newcomer will fill the dorado's ecological role or prey on different fish and thus skew species assemblages is unclear, says Carlos Cañas, a river ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society here, who plans to monitor the migration of large catfish in the watershed.

An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams on the Amazon river system has found that major negative ecological impacts can be expected both above the dams and throughout the lowland floodplains and the Amazon Delta, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, and other groups.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

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«It's a large feast table of eggs that would never have hatched,» says Glenn Gauvry, director of Ecological Research & Development Group Inc., a wildlife conservation organization based in Milton, Delaware.

The lynx's conservation strategy consists of connecting isolated populations through ecological corridors, but the information provided through local and regional population viability models for short and longer time periods also helps.

The findings appear in the current issues of the journals Conservation Biology and Ecological Applications.

Rather than denounce this support as a measly «trickle» compared to ecological world need and the dreams of the Rio Earth Summit, as some conservation groups and others have, we should be using it to build on the Darwin project.

The results also indicate that resource managers will have sufficient time to complete extensive biological surveys of ecological communities in mountain streams so that conservation planning strategies can adequately address all species.

A new article addresses the ecological and ethical challenges stemming from the question of what effects the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology will have on the conservation of nature.

«J.J. and I have had the distinct privilege of facilitating research that confirms a direct correlation between conservation actions undertaken by a broad partnership and ecosystem responsiveness that is leading to positive ecological outcomes.»

Indeed, recent years have brought new applications of tracking for ecological research and conservation.

Nonetheless, as co-author S D Biju notes, these insights into the frog's development, «enable a better understanding of its ecological adaptations and provide useful information for conservation of this Endangered species and its vanishing habitats.»

The new carbon map also reveals Perú's extremely high ecological diversity and it provides the critical input to studies of deforestation and forest degradation for conservation, land use, and enforcement purposes.

A new in - depth analysis of global bycatch data provides fisheries and the conservation community with the best information yet to help mitigate the ecological damage of bycatch and helps identify where mitigation measures are most needed.

Authors include scientists from University of Queensland, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED), UC Santa Barbara, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Imperial College London and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

«Biological conservation plans often respect political boundaries more than ecological ones,» Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society and collconservation plans often respect political boundaries more than ecological ones,» Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society and collConservation Society and colleagues note.

The report, released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, maps out 13 areas that are of particular ecological and biological significance or are especially vulnerable to human intrusion.

It demonstrates that a combination of techniques can do much to illuminate causes of population declines, improve decision making for conservation management and possibly prevent similar developments in populations of other species of similar ecological standing.

Invasion biology's florid competition to hyperbolize the alien threat suggests that Elton's omission of «scientific» or «ecological» among his reasons for conservation was well considered.

The study, «Beneath the Canopy: Tropical forests enrolled in conservation payments reveal evidence of less degradation,» recently was published in the current issue of Ecological Economics.

The study was undertaken by a team of researchers from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), the Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT), the Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL), and the University of Montana.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

Though Martinsen and Schall are quick to note that they anticipate little danger to people from this newly discovered deer malaria, it does underline the fact that many human health concerns are connected to wider ecological systems — and that understanding the biology of other species is a foundation to both conservation and public health management.

According to Dr. Biju Kumar, one of the study's authors, the discovery of this crab is very important in the context of conservation of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotpot as they can serve as ecological indicators, reflecting the health of the ecosystem.

«Conservation on this scale,» said Pew's Kallick, «helps assure that growth can not overdraft ecological balances, that an ample reserve of natural resource capital will remain in the bank for future generations to use.»

Although the study is interesting, says Eric Dinerstein, a biologist with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., he argues that information about the ecological roles of subspecies may be an even more important criterion than genetic makeup in designing conservation strategies.

Consequently, effective conservation of native biota can be enhanced by an understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of human - mediated hybridization.

The findings of this study will be very useful to direct future studies on diversity of butterflies, ecological interactions between species and to improve their conservation by prioritising and avoiding mixing of divergent lineages.

Organisation and dynamics of biocoenosis; biodiversity patterns at various scales; hydrobiology of running and standing waters and wetlands; ecological effects of climate and land use changes; conservation biology and restoration ecology; new plant resources; natural vegetation in Hungary; maintenance of the Botanical Garden.

The den visit was part of the ongoing long - term ecological study on snow leopards in Mongolia's South Gobi province that's been conducted by the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, Snow Leopard Trust, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences since 2008.

He is convenor of Royal Entomological Society Pollination Special Interest Group and a member of the British Ecological Society, Royal Entomological Society, Society for Conservation Biology, and has involvement with the WorldBeeProject charity.