Sentences with phrase «part of nature conservation»

Managing forests is the most important part of nature conservation.

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LINCOLN, MA — The public is invited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the George Robert White Environmental Conservation Center at Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center in Mattapan as part of the annual «Rockin» with Raptors» festival on Saturday, September 22, from 1 - 4 pm.

«We like to think of it as a rite of spring for folks around here,» said Dave Brooks, manager of conservation services for the nature sanctuary, which is part of the Schaumburg Park District.

The public is invited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the George Robert White Environmental Conservation Center at Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center as part of the annual «Rockin» with Raptors» festival.

Parts of the Nu River are also designated as a World Heritage site and the Nature Conservancy and Conservation International have delineated stretches of this river and its tributaries as biodiversity hotspots.

The species is also on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN's) Red List of Threatened Species, and trade in the species or its parts is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global distribution of Bonelli's eagles is very extensive, ranging through southern Europe (including Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus), Turkey, northern Africa (including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), the Middle East (including Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Yemen) and many parts of Asia (including China, Honk Kong, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia).

Gray whales, as described by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), are stated to feed primarily on swarming mysids, commonly called opossum shrimps, tube - dwelling amphipods, and polychaete tube worms in the northern parts of their range, but are also known to take red crabs, baitfish, and other food (crab larvae, mobile amphipods, herring eggs and larvae, cephalopods, and megalops) opportunistically or off the main feeding grounds.

Nothing remains of the former wetlands except Famosa Slough State Marine Conservation Area (a city - owned nature preserve which is technically located in Point Loma but is considered part of Midway by many people) and the San Diego River bed itself.

It includes the Namib Rand Nature Reserve, 60 km south of Sossusvlei, and part of the largest conservation area in Namibia.

Lucia Pizzani's lifelong captivation with nature and conservation biology permeates a large part of her artistic practice.

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.

These efforts are part of 100 - 1000 partnership, with the goal of building 100 new miles of oyster reefs and 1000 miles of replanted marshlands along the Gulf in Alabama to make Alabama's coastal areas more resilient to impacts from hurricanes, oil spills and climate change.100 - 1000 is a project that was formed in 2010 and grew out of the partnership of four conservation organizations including: Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, the Nature Conservancy and the Ocean Foundation.

The course was jointly developed by the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Society, Germany (BMUB) as part of the National Adaptation Plans (NAP - Ag) Programme.

The Grenadian - German Programme «Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies» (ICCAS) introduced the toolkit to 49 primary schools in the small island state and is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).

The Dialogue, co-sponsored by Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme - Cameroon (BDCPC), Cameroon Ecology, the Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection, and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED), and WRI's Governance of Forests Initiative (GFI), provided a forum for government and civil society members to talk frankly about strengthening governance as part of Cameroon's REDD + program.

The study comes at a time when — in part, due to the far - reaching effects of anthropogenic climate change — wilderness advocates and conservation scientists are rethinking the long - held belief in a «hands off» conservation strategy based on the notion that nature can take care of itself.

Now, organizations working in developing countries can apply for support from the United Nations QIAO Plan on Climate Change and Nature Conservation as part of a partnership between the UN Office for South - South Cooperation (UNOSSC) and the Beijing Qiaonyu Foundation.

(5) Whenever, before or during the drilling of a well not within the boundaries of an operating coal mine, the well operator encounters conditions of a nature which renders drilling of the bore hole or a portion thereof impossible, or more hazardous than usual, the well operator, upon verbal notice to the department, may immediately plug all or part of the bore hole, if drilling has occurred, and commence a new bore hole not more than 50 feet from the old bore hole if the location of the new bore hole does not violate section 3215 (relating to well location restrictions) and, in the case of a well subject to act of July 25, 1961 (P.L. 825, No. 359), known as the Oil and Gas Conservation Law, if the new location complies with existing laws, regulations and spacing orders and the new bore hole is at least 330 feet from the nearest lease boundary.

«While the issue of whether sales should be allowed to proceed or not has dominated much of the discussions here in Qatar, WWF and TRAFFIC believe the key driving force behind the ongoing elephant poaching is the continued existence of illegal domestic ivory markets across parts of Africa and Asia,» said Steven Broad, executive director of TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of WWF and International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN.

LINDSAY CHADDERTON: I am working as part of a collaboration between the Nature Conservancy and Centre for Aquatic Conservation at the University of Notre Dame.

Lacoste produced the limited edition polo shirts as part of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Save Our Species campaign.