Sentences with phrase «of wildlife resources»

It states that there is growing evidence that climate change significantly exacerbates other major human - induced pressures such as encroachment, deforestation, forest degradation, land - use change, pollution and overexploitation of wildlife resources.

The overriding feeling of The Wild Thornberrys Movie is one of compassion and a certain wistfulness attached to any project, one supposes, that concerns the degradation of wildlife resources.

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But I think the church's slighting of wilderness and wildlife is due less to hostility than to indifference — a disregard for the peculiar theological resources at stake and the speed with which they are being crippled.

Since animal protectionists are disinclined to accept human utilization of wildlife, they would answer that wildlife is not a resource.

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

These farmers are going above and beyond, improving the quality of their beans while conserving natural resources, protecting wildlife habitat and supporting local communities.»

The benefits of organic farming include the guardianship of our natural land resources, native plants, wildlife, insects, and birds, the development and conservation of natural ecosystems and a reduction in the nitrate and agrochemical pollution of our countryside and water courses.

The week - long workshop introduces teens to various fields of natural resources management, including soil and water conservation, forestry, water quality and wildlife.

Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

Publicly - owned lands play a critical role in protection of natural habitats, wildlife, and water resources.

Despite the challenges, we currently have the capacity to protect the natural resources of Massachusetts for future generations of people and wildlife.

Despite these difficult challenges, we currently have the capacity to protect the natural resources of Massachusetts for future generations of people and wildlife.

«We continue to strive to make this conservation center and wildlife sanctuary a true resource for people of all ages and backgrounds to connect with nature.»

In addition, through warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose, Waldorf students are uniquely equipped to address the global challenges facing their generation — issues of renewable energy, climate change, food quality, wildlife conservation, and preserving our natural resources.

Mass Audubon has worked with local landowners, the Housatonic River Natural Resource Damages Fund, and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to add almost 120 acres to the wildlife sanctuary in Sheffield, which will now total more than 360 acres.

Their homes for wildlife resource shows you how to take simple, practical steps that will benefit many of our most important birds, mammals and insects and their Action Awards for schools is all about finding out about and helping wildlife, doing practical things to help and telling other people.

«I'm thrilled to be part of this extremely talented team of biologists, land protection experts, conservation advocates, and environmental educators, all of whom are so committed to protecting our wildlife resources,» he said.

The state's largest conservation nonprofit has worked with local landowners, the Housatonic River Natural Resource Damages Fund (HRNRDF), and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to add almost 120 acres to the wildlife sanctuary in Sheffield, which will now total more than 360 acres.

So Green Belts are already a fantastic resource - offering a home for wildlife, a place for recreation for millions of people, and environmental benefits for all of us

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

The District offers an annual sale and distribution of evergreen and deciduous seedlings and transplants for the conservation of natural resources and the enhancement of forestry resources, wildlife habitat and economic development in Erie County.

The Conservation Tree and Shrub Seedling Program is an annual sale of deciduous and conifer seedlings and conifer transplants for the conservation of natural resources and for the enhancement of forestry, wildlife habitat and economic development in Erie County.

Technology to investigate wildlife trafficking is rapidly improving, but countries also need to agree new ways of working and better training and resources

«If the world does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, continued heating could increase the vulnerability of plants, wildlife, physical features, and cultural resources in the globally unique US national parks.»

«The research fills an important gap in our understanding of the vulnerability of tropical river - forest systems to changes in climate and land cover,» said the project's leader, Leandro Castello, assistant professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

In some areas of the country, especially where people live side by side with wildlife, people and animals both try to utilize the same resources.

«If we are going to achieve effective and lasting protection of wildlife and resources such as water, mountains have to be pre-eminent in our thinking and implementation of conservation measures.»

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

The rapid expansion of the North Slope's snow - free season has had consequences for water resources, wildlife behavior, the plant growing season and more, the research team reported in the new paper.

«If we can understand how the landscape has changed over decades and what that does to water quality, human health, and ecosystem health, we can begin to make predictions for the future,» said senior author Kathleen Alexander, professor of wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

Not much is known about what happens in these transitional savanna ecosystems located between more arid and wetter climate zones, information critical to their management,» said lead author J. Tyler Fox, who earned his doctorate in fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment in 2016.

Leakey's promotion, says conservation biologist David Woodruff of the University of California, San Diego, «has little to do with wildlife conservation or natural resource stewardship for the people of Kenya and everything to do with national politics and power.»

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

As the particles break down and disperse, they have a wide range of adverse environmental, public health and economic consequences with the potential to kill wildlife, destroy natural resources and disrupt the food chain.

According to the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which has campaigned vigorously to ban use of the technology in waters rich in marine wildlife, recent cases of whale strandings likely represent a small fraction of sonar's toll, given that severely injured animals rarely make it to shore.

The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan's current civil war on the country's wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial wildlife trafficking are increasing, as well as illegal mining, timber harvesting and charcoal production, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) said in a report issued today.

«The work discussed at today's press conference is emblematic of the many ways in which satellite remote sensing supports our efforts at natural resource management and wildlife conservation,» said Woody Turner, program scientist for NASA's Biological Diversity Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Congress noted that Arctic waters host «a rich diversity of wildlife and fish resources and are critical to the survival of the subsistence culture of the Inupiat people of Arctic Alaska.»

• 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 illegal activities.

The warmer weather patterns have implications for animal species up and down the region, including Punxsutawney Phil and his fuzzy brethren, said Paul Curtis, a professor of natural resources and Cooperative Extension wildlife specialist at Cornell.

«It was fantastic to run into this little bird that had made the long trip north just like us,» said Williams, associate professor of wildlife ecology who oversees a Waterfowl and Upland Gamebird research program in UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

These geographic shifts will keep the wine flowing, but may bring new pressures on wildlife and other natural resources such as water, says climatologist Lee Hannah of Conservation International's Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics.

Include wildlife conservation and natural resource management and transparency explicitly as part of CAR peace process and security and stabilization strategy

The first aerial assessment of the impact of Central African Republic's recent conflict on wildlife and other natural resources in the northern part of the country shows that wildlife populations have been depleted in large areas of their former range, yet there is hope as some populations of Kordofan giraffe, giant eland, buffalo, roan, and other key species that still survive in low numbers.

Examining how land - use changes may affect water quality and fisheries resources in lakes and rivers will help natural resource agencies manage wildlife populations, according to Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at South Dakota State University.

Establishment of conservation - security partnerships for protected areas and natural resource management (including NGOs, UN, other international entities) directly improving security for both local communities and wildlife

«Just like the eastern United States, China has a rich diversity of freshwater mussels, which is imperiled by humans building dams, for instance, and introducing toxins into the waterways,» said Eric Hallerman, a professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

Teams of scientists from Michigan Technological University led by wildlife ecologist Rolf Peterson since 1975, and joined in 2000 by John Vucetich, assistant professor of forest resources and environmental science, have carefully monitored the waxing and waning of these animal populations.

At NFI, we are fortunate in that for a number of years we have already been growing, so that we can expand the DNA field and at the same time liberate resources for development of other fields, such as wildlife forensics.

«We'd look at it as an anti-gun move,» said Susan Recce, the NRA's director of conservation, wildlife and natural resources.