Sentences with phrase «protected area projects»
He has worked on community - based protected area projects on six continents.
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The agency applied a provision of the Clean Water Act to protect the area from certain mining activities, including the Pebble Mine project.
These types of projects protect citizens from flooding, safeguard homes and business as well prepare our area for economic growth.
It will focus on critical investments to create, protect and restore environmentally sensitive sites at Oriskany Flats Wildlife Management Area and stream enhancement projects associated with storm damaged areas within the Mohawk River Watershed.
In particular the low - cost power generated at the Niagara Power Project has protected thousands of existing area jobs, and assisted in making our area attractive to new ventures such as the Yahoo Data Center.
In a press release following the project's ULURP certification and ahead of the community board hearing, GVPA executive director Andrew Berman, who made his case to the community board Wednesday night, argued that if the «surrounding predominantly residential neighborhood» is not protected, the tech hub would «accelerate the transformation of the area.»
The area has seen lots of flooding, much of it stemming from the rivers and tributaries that stretch across state lines, and State Senator David Carlucci, an Independent Democrat, says Cuomo should sign the legislation to formalize a bi-state partnership to coordinate remediation projects, identify flooding hazards, protect homeowners, and more.
But even projects to protect densely populated areas are struggling for funding.
Already projects are being designed to store carbon over decades in newly planted native vegetation, to restore connectivity and biodiversity in large - scale protected areas, and to train workers in restoring and maintaining wetlands and removing invasive species.
It is surprising that members of Tanzania Wildlife Conservation Monitoring, a joint project of different governmental wildlife protection authorities and the Frankfurt Zoological Society, which has been carrying out aerial surveys in Tanzania's protected areas since 1986, were apparently not consulted.
A major goal of the project is to create high - resolution digital maps to aid in establishing a statewide network of marine protected areas.
Carr works on a state - funded project to monitor ecosystems inside and outside marine protected areas on the California coast.
The group notes that streams that have the optimal combination of several imperiled mussel species, low chance of a significant temperature swing with projected climate change and being in a protected area are few, but are a good bet to start conservation efforts.
The goal of the $ 8 million, 8 - year project is to collect baseline data that can be used to assess whether the protected areas are working as intended.
The authors suggest steps that the federation and government can take to reaffirm their positions on providing an ecologically - friendly World Cup, such as promoting the «Parques da Copa» project, protecting areas of the Caatinga, and instituting a conservation plan for the Tolypeutes tricinctus species.
Winning projects include a proposal to protect at least 5 % of Brazil's marine territory by setting up marine and coastal protected areas, which was awarded $ 18.2 million.
The team used the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classification of protected areas in order to evaluate the influence of potential factors on deforestation and project future deforestation.
As part of that project, researchers proved that grouper — a highly valuable commercial fish species — rebound in areas that are protected as marine reserves.
A University of Illinois researcher examined the results of a multi-million dollar European Union aid project in West Africa and found that a country's national governance quality can affect the livelihoods of families who rely on resources from national parks and other protected areas.
«We've been worried since 9/11 about how to protect against bad guys hijacking an aircraft and crashing it into a nuclear power plant upwind of a heavily populated area,» says David Lochbaum, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists's Nuclear Safety Project, a group that monitors the performance of nuclear plants and the NRC, which regulates them.
Pike adds, «I think «sexy» projects like creating technology to enforce MPAs [marine protected areas] could be — and has been for Palau — something that works for funding campaigns.»
They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.
The bill protects some school districts in areas with high property wealth and per - pupil spending from seeing general aid deductions in the school funding formula in cases where voters approve capital projects.
If other Federal agencies plan displacements in or adjacent to a demonstration program project area within the same time period as the project acquisition and relocation actions of the demonstration program, the Secretary shall adopt measures to protect against inconsistent treatment of displaced persons.
Meanwhile, the Dahshour MDG - F project will help foster the development of sustainable rural tourism through capacity building initiatives promoting entrepreneurship for tourism SMEs, the development of tourism guides, and enhancement of national capacities to protect and manage the archaeological and natural resources of the area.
· Manuel Antonio National Park is looking to position itself as the country's most accessible protected area, a project is underway to build construct a bridge that leads to Playa Espadilla.
Ranching structures in the project area including, a scale house, loading chute, squeeze chute, and water trough were carefully relocated, and archaeological resources, were protected.
As the name suggests, this pioneering community project has seen dozens of landowners join forces to create a protected area that's home to dazzling hummingbirds, parrots and river turtles.
In summary, the elevated bridge and walkway project at Brooks Camp is a well - planned project that moves the Brooks Camp area in a good direction that will at once help to protect bears from people... and people from bears.
They do reforestation projects in critical areas of the country to offset the carbon emissions and also make efforts to save and protect forests, especially the ones visited a lot by tourists such as the Manuel Antonio National Park and Arenal Volcano.
Hike into Haleakala and help remove invasive plants or work on other projects to protect the area's unique eco-system.
Trekking in the Nam Ha National Protected Area: Trekking is why most people come to Luang Nam Tha — your money goes to employing the local community and to park fees that fund wildlife / forest conservation projects and maintenance.
The BRUV project is part of a collection of researchers from Florida International University (FIU) to estimate and compare the relative abundance of predator fish species, including sharks and rays, inside and outside marine protected areas (MPA's).
It also runs a turtle conservation project that removes delicate eggs from the beach and places them in a protected area for safe hatching.
A focus only on core sites and protected areas like reserves, instead of larger landscapes, could be seen by developers and politicians as a green light to move forward with harmful infrastructure projects outside of core sites.
Buyer interest in offsets generated by protecting forests — thus avoiding deforestation emissions — tripled to total 24.7 million tonnes last year, with avoided deforestation projects now covering almost 20 million hectares, about the forest area of Malaysia.
The park project is part of Scenic Hudson's campaign to «save the land that matters most,» protecting lands that earned the region Congressional designation as a National Heritage Area.
Community - based coastal management International conservation and development Participatory project design and management Fisheries Management Marine Protected Areas / Coastal Protected Areas
The Ocean Conservancy is a non-profit advocacy group, which was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.. Its goal is to promote healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and works on many projects such as sustainable fisheries, creating marine protected areas and better marine planning.
Ocean international policy, Marine Protected Areas, Project management of marine projects, Marine mammal research and policy
The Mikoko Pamoja model is now being expanded to nearby Vanga Bay as part of the Global Environment Facility - backed Blue Forests Project, effectively tripling the area of mangrove protected and the carbon credits sold.
In fall 2015, Levy interviewed a local sports - fisherman to represent the recreational fishing interest in a class debate, she conducted research on seafood retailers and sustainable fisheries as an intern for Salty Girl Seafood during her first year at Bren, and she traveled to Galápagos last summer to collect data on marine protected areas for her Group Project.
According to de Boer, the fund is intended to finance climate change projects including sea walls to guard against expanding oceans, early warning systems for extreme events, improved water supplies for drought areas, training in new agricultural techniques and the conservation and restoration of mangroves to protect people from storms.
«In essence, REDD may simply end up resembling other types of conservation project that promote the establishment of protected areas, where conservation funds help finance monitoring and law enforcement within protected area boundaries.»
«Our study suggests... [the] initiative will not significantly reduce deforestation in northern Sumatra and will have little impact on orangutan conservation,» David Gaveau of the University of Kent, UK, and the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program told environmentalresearchweb, «because firstly a large amount of forest inside the proposed REDD project area is protected de facto by being inaccessible; and secondly much of northern Sumatra's lowland forests will remain outside of REDD and will be exposed to the combined expansion of high - revenue oil palm plantations and road networks.»
To test the REDD project's effectiveness, Gaveau and colleagues from the University of Kent, UK, Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program, Great Apes Trust of Iowa, US, Conservation International, US, and Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia, examined satellite maps and modelled future deforestation for two scenarios — the current plan of implementing REDD within a new upland protected area, and an alternative arrangement that uses REDD across landscapes outside protected areas.
The project is using climate finance to protect 140,000 hectares of the largest remaining area of the Upper Guinea Tropical Forest which at the end of the 19th century stretched from Sierra Leone in the West to Ghana in the East.
The area has been recognised as one of the 25 most important global biodiversity hotspots [1] and is home to nine endangered species including the critically endangered iconic Pygmy Hippo, and 60 threatened species, which the project will help protect.
The focus in project design remains primarily upon profit - making and greenwashing «Sustainable Forest Management», rather than necessary policies to ensure large areas of primary and old - growth forests are fully protected to optimally keep existing and new carbon sequestered.