Sentences with phrase «on conservation issues»

If the first year of the administration is any indication, there won't be much leadership from the United States on conservation issues.

The IWC's Scientific Committee, however, routinely works on conservation issues relating to all cetaceans.

While there are no simple solutions (of course there never are), people in «western conservation groups» are working on conservation issues in a humane way.

Staff at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in a nearby suburb filled me in on conservation issues affecting this eucalyptus - munching marsupial, including a strain of chlamydia, possibly originating in livestock, that has spread in some areas south of here, prompting scientists to propose this week that culling may be necessary in infected populations.

It also seeks to educate visitors from around the world on conservation issues with a luxe eco-hotel on - site.

«The Chair of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee makes extra money by working at a law firm that lobbies on conservation issues.

Berman, who now has a national profile campaigning on conservation issues, said Clayoquot's reverberations are being felt acutely now.

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This billionaire entrepreneur says that «it is amazing how focusing your mind on issues like health, poverty, conservation and climate change can help to re-energize your thinking in other areas.»

Intellectual and esthetic responsibility, right choice of work and recreation, conservation of natural and human resources, and so on are all moral issues.

I get to work on Adirondack conservation issues and assist those who are fighting global warming; I've helped my wife start a new school in our town; I can teach Sunday school and help run a nationwide effort to decommercialize Christmas and sit on the board of the local college.

There is an additional section that deals with environmental issues having to do with coffee processing, specific to either wet processing or dry processing, which includes indicators on water conservation, waste management, and energy use.

In May 2001, five non-profit organizations that work on coffee conservation issues (Conservation International, Consumer's Choice Council, Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and the Summit Foundation) took a step toward creating a unified front by releasing a document entitled «Conservation Principles for Coffee Producconservation issues (Conservation International, Consumer's Choice Council, Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and the Summit Foundation) took a step toward creating a unified front by releasing a document entitled «Conservation Principles for Coffee ProducConservation International, Consumer's Choice Council, Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and the Summit Foundation) took a step toward creating a unified front by releasing a document entitled «Conservation Principles for Coffee ProducConservation Principles for Coffee Production.»

The Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) clubs are organized by teachers who have gone through C3 Club training here at the museum and are now organizing afterschool programs on environmental conservation issues in their schools with suppConservation Corps (C3) clubs are organized by teachers who have gone through C3 Club training here at the museum and are now organizing afterschool programs on environmental conservation issues in their schools with suppconservation issues in their schools with support from C3!

Your gift can help Mass Audubon expand our field research, science education, evidence - based advocacy, and public outreach work on critical conservation issues, and enable us to continue making meaningful impacts every year.

Knowing where your elected officials stand on important conservation issues is critical to being an effective advocate.

He has a degree in conservation ecology where he tailored his studies on gamekeeping issues and wildlife management.

The idea of issuing subpoenas was raised publicly by Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat and the ranking minority member on the chamber's Environmental Conservation Committee, earlier this month.

This week the New York State Assembly Committees on Health and Environmental Conservation announced hearings into examine the quality of the state's drinking water and state government's responses to contamination issues.

The state's Department of Environmental Conservation issued a statement citing its own «ongoing and aggressive response» to the Hoosick Falls water, and saying that the E.P.A. was «finally acting» on a January response for federal Superfund consideration.

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has welcomed the decision of the High Court to quash a decision by Natural England to refuse to issue a licence to control buzzards causing severe damage by killing young pheasants on a shoot.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joseph Martens, second from let, talks on hydraulic fracturing during a cabinet meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will move to prohibit fracking in the state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.Acting health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker is seated left.

The Conservation Fund focuses on educating New Yorkers about environmental issues and the environmental decision making processes at the local, regional, state and federal government levels.

We are active within the political system on a broad range of issues that concern every New Yorker, from taxation, conservation to local food availability.

We are active within the political system on a broad range of issues that concern every New York, from taxation, conservation to local food availability.

Geoffrey Clifton - Brown MP, Chairman of the All - Party Parliamentary Group for Shooting and Conservation, who worked extensively with the Home Office on this issue said: «I want to congratulate the Home Office on a job well done.

Hydrofracking is indeed an issue on both the state and federal level, but attention in New York for the last several months has focused on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Department of Environmental Conservation's long - awaited report on the feasibility of high - volume hydrofracking.

The New York League of Conservation Voters will announce today that the state Legislature earned an overall grade of «B -» for its progress on sustainability issues for the 2014 session, which ended last month.

Instead, the mail piece is coming from the independent expenditure campaign being funded by the New York League of Conservation Voters is actually a focus on environmental issues.

Cuomo has appointed Queensbury at - large Supervisor Ron Montesi, a Republican, to the New York State Soil and Water Committee, a panel that advises state government on water and soil conservation issues.

At 10 a.m., Assembly Standing Committees on Environmental Conservation and Health, and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the DEC, hold a joint public hearing to examine water quality issues and to review implementation of the $ 2.5 billion in water infrastructure funding contained in the 2017 - 18 budget, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

Governor Cuomo has been publicly neutral on the issue while his Department of Environmental Conservation decides.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appointed Queensbury at - large Supervisor Ron Montesi to the New York State Soil and Water Committee, a panel that advises state government on water and soil conservation issues.

A joint statement issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health pushed back on the comments made by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday that the state did not act swiftly when warned of a chemical contamination in Hoosick Falls's drinking water.

Buerkle's votes on environmental issues have earned a lifetime score of 9 percent out of a possible 100 percent on the League of Conservation Voters National Environmental Scorecard.

The annual scorecard rates members of Congress on conservation and clean energy issues.

The New York League of Conservation Voters has issued its «Environmental Progress Report» grading the legislature on its priority issues for the recently adjourned legislative session.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation issued a statement Wednesday commending the EPA for «finally acting» on the request to add the site to the federal National Priorities List of polluted sites.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation on Thursday issued a clean up consent order for St Gobain and Honeywell, saying they are legally responsible for damage and remediation.

Ulster County has great opportunities and challenges facing it on sometimes overlapping issues like public health, infrastructure, economic development, job creation and environmental conservation.

Connecticut's congressional delegation has received high marks for action on environmental issues in 2015, according to the League of Conservation Voters» latest national scorecard.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is in the midst of an environmental review process to allow the controversial gas drilling process on some private lands in the state, and has already issued proposed regulations for hydrofracking.

In addition to guiding all aspects of NISC Secretariat operations, Jamie is currently providing the leadership necessary to develop an Arctic Invasive Alien Species (ARIAS) Strategy and Action Plan under the Arctic Council's Conservation of Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME) working groups; produce a documentary on invasive species entitled, Protecting What Matters; establish an annual Innovation Summit to advance U.S. scientific and technical capacities to address the most pressing invasive species issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species programs.

A recently published paper provides a history of scientific research on mountain ecosystems, looks at the issues threatening wildlife in these systems, and sets an agenda for biodiversity conservation throughout the world's mountain regions.

EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on conservation and global public health issues, published a comprehensive review today examining the current state of knowledge of the deadly Ebola and Marburg virus.

Steve: It always seems though that these conservation issues are put on the backburner — when we get the economy taken care of; we'll worry about that, when we get the political situation stabilized, we'll take care of that.

A coral reef ecologist by training, she keeps one foot wet in the field, while the other roams the worlds of creative storytelling and problem - solving, with a focus on ocean conservation and climate change issues.

Conservation scientist Julia Jones of Bangor University in the United Kingdom first became interested in the issue while working on wild game management in eastern Madagascar.

It's just going directly to a sort of well - oiled machine, which is made up of lobbyists here in Washington, D.C., or iMat PR firm and NDC and also apparently now with Pac / West they are working on a lot of land conservation issues.

She has helped transform a once sleepy rehabilitation facility into a vibrant, globally recognized science and conservation center and become a presidentially appointed adviser to policymakers, weighing in on thorny issues such as endangered species management.

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.