Sentences with phrase «on conservation successes»

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Sacramento, CA, July 9, 2007 - The efforts of California winegrape growers and vintners to build on their environmental successes gained a major boost late last month, when the United States Department of Agriculture awarded a $ 607,500 Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) to the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

Mass Audubon's 27th Bird - a-thon on May 14 - 15 was a great success, raising over $ 170,000 for conservation initiatives across the state.

Carol M. Browner, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and Board Chair of the League of Conservation Voters said: «By building victories in different states and on multiple policies, we can demonstrate strong public support for climate action, demonstrate success that others will want to replicate, and drive down the costs of clean energy».

If the board is going to have any success lobbying New York State officials to get the state Department of Environmental Conservation to reopen waterways long closed to shellfishing on the North Fork, those relationships could prove crucial.

While the recovery of marine mammals represents a conservation success, it creates complex tradeoffs for managers also charged with protecting the salmon they prey on, the study concludes.

Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding success rates, known threats, and so on.

Researchers say that while PAs can counter agricultural expansion — and many have increasingly called for PAs to expand across the planet amid dire evidence of rapid species decline — the limits on land that can be set aside for PAs means that biodiversity conservation success depends on protecting native vegetation on private lands.

«Policy makers must focus greater attention on zoning resource use over entire river basins and include local communities in landscape - scale conservation planning, to ensure their continued success.»

Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success by Andrew Balmford.

Understanding which traits predispose background species to protection under an umbrella strategy will be important to the overall success of conservation based on the umbrella species concept, Chalfoun says.

By easing those threats, the park «is likely to be one of the great tiger success stories» in a decade or two, says Dale Miquelle, a world authority on Siberian tigers and director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Russia Program in Vladivostok.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

Ed Arnett, senior scientist with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a group devoted to preserving hunting and fishing habitat, said his group and others that support the sage grouse decision believe its success will depend on how it is implemented.

The emphasis on influencing conservation managers and policymakers will make measuring success harder.

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Delfines Hotel & Casino opened its doors on 15 July 1997 with the vision of being the preferred place in our country for business travelers by providing the best environment and facilities for the success of their work and the rest they need, with the possibility of joining the experience of cohabitation, harmony and conservation.

«The Island Fox recovery is an incredible success story about the power of partnerships,» US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a press release, «and the ability of collaborative conservation to correct course for a species on the brink of extinction.»

«Getting innovative conservation on the ground requires forward - looking growers and a team of experts to support their efforts; this project had all of the components of success.

Jim Steele draws on 25 years of research and habitat restoration in California's Sierra Nevada to provide thought provoking analyses that contrast the success of conservation science with the deceptive claims of global warming advocates.

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Once a conservation success story, the rare Haleakalā silversword plant is dying off as weather patterns shift on Maui.