Scientists
say nature conservation and protecting the planet from global warming can both be achieved if land is used sustainably, not just for immediate profit.
Not exact matches
With its Sensory Trails, the
conservation organization's network of wildlife sanctuaries and
nature centers has created a richer, more accessible experience for all visitors,»
said Paula Gangopadhyay, IMLS Deputy Director of Museum Services.
«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.
«We welcome military families to visit our statewide network of wildlife sanctuaries, where they can discover the beauty of Massachusetts and make their own connections to
nature,»
said Gary Clayton, Vice President of
Conservation Programs.
«Rough Meadows shows what partners in
conservation can accomplish when they are committed to protecting vulnerable open space for people and
nature,» Mass Audubon President Laura Johnson
said.
Charlotte Simon, FACE
nature policy officer,
said: «Despite the fact hunters do a lot for
nature conservation throughout Europe, it is sometimes difficult to demonstrate that work.
Tim Russell, BASC's director of
conservation,
said: «BASC is pleased to sign this modern partnership agreement with Natural England which recognises the important contribution that people who shoot make to the
nature and landscape
conservation of the English countryside, and commits the two organisations to exploring how this contribution can be further developed.
Andrew Craggs, Natural England senior reserve manager at Lindisfarne NNR,
said: «The current system has been fashioned over many years, with trust and a real passion for
nature conservation from all partners being a key ingredient to its current success.»
«This was one of the greatest missed
conservation opportunities in the budget this year, and we ask that legislative leaders get behind the proposal for next year's budget,»
said Jessica Ottney Mahar, policy director for the
Nature Conservancy in New York, which lobbied heavily for the bill.
«Today was a historic day for New York's environment,»
said Stuart Gruskin, chief
conservation and external affairs officer for The
Nature Conservancy in New York.
«There's a big question around whether those are truly wild free ranging herds, or whether there is so much management that's happening around them that they are no longer really wild; they're just like ranched cattle,»
says Craig Hilton - Taylor, head of the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature's Red List Unit in Cambridge, UK.
The company crafted what was, at the time, an innovative response,
says Tricia Martin, the
Nature Conservancy's Central Florida
conservation director: «Instead of doing piecemeal mitigation, which tended to produce tiny parcels within a development, they decided to do a larger project off - site.»
«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,»
said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature.
«The decline in Madagascan amphibians is not just a concern for herpetologists and frog researchers,»
says Dr Franco Andreone from the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature (IUCN), who is one of the study authors.
«He mowed the lawn five times,»
says Mary Gleason, a biologist with The
Nature Conservancy, an international
conservation organisation.
«The combination of
nature conservation and peace - building is not only important, but it also brings a new message of hope that our society is looking for,» Roulin
said.
«This result is relevant, because there is a clear relationship between social equity and
nature conservation,»
says Baumgärtner.
«Folks are going out into
nature much less and decreasingly every year,»
says conservation ecologist Patricia Zaradic of the Environmental Leadership Program and co-author of the report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
English
Nature, the government's
conservation agency, has «cautiously backed the NRA's scheme»,
says its head of coastal geomorphology, Richard Leafe.
«There is currently no effective water management strategy to speak of in Pakistan,»
says Shah Murad Aliani, country representative for the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature in Pakistan.
«Everyone suspected that there was something in [the footprints],»
says Agnieszka Sergiel, a biologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences» Institute of
Nature Conservation and a co-author of the study, which was published recently in Scientific Reports.
«We estimated that over 28 thousand lemurs are kept illegally as pets in Malagasy cities over the last three years alone,»
said Reuter, who has recently been appointed to the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group.
«We're hoping we will see these three sites on the World Heritage List come mid-July,»
says Peter Shadie, senior adviser on world heritage to the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature.
The findings will be used in part by the
Nature Conservancy to help direct federal funding toward ecosystem restoration and
conservation projects that protect the most people and property, Arkema
said.
The discovery has significant
conservation implications, the researchers say, noting that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the la
conservation implications, the researchers
say, noting that the International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the la
Conservation of
Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the last 30 years.
«Plants, animals, and people all depend on forests and may all face additional challenges as temperatures increase and precipitation patterns shift,»
said John Shuey, a co-author of the study and Director of
Conservation Science for the Indiana Chapter of The
Nature Conservancy.
«Conserving
nature is a long and complicated process and establishing a national park or
nature preserve is a first step,»
said Dr. Mike Mascia, senior director of social science for
Conservation International.
«Although it's too early to declare victory, there's a good chance now that science will not be sidelined as would have been the case had the chair's proposal been adopted,»
says Justin Cooke, a mathematical modeler in Freiburg, Germany, who represents the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature at the IWC meeting.
Said lead author Dr. James Watson of WCS and University of Queensland, and current President of the Society for
Conservation Biology: «Achieving CBD's goals are imperative for
nature and humanity, as people depend on biodiversity for important and valuable services.
Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for
nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions,
says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of
conservation science.
«The results are disturbing because they suggest narwhals aren't physiologically equipped to sustain, in good health, repeated exposure to stressful events,»
says Randall Reeves, a marine mammal expert in Hudson, Canada, who chairs the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature Species Survival Commission's Cetacean Specialist Group.
«The International Union for
Conservation of
Nature (IUCN) has recently changed the status of the giant panda from «endangered» to the less threatened «vulnerable,»»
said Stuart L. Pimm, Doris Duke Professor of
Conservation Ecology at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.
«We don't even know that there is a decline in reptile species as there is with certain amphibian species,»
says Hank Jenkins, a biologist at the Australian
Nature Conservation Agency in Canberra.
The International Union for the
Conservation of
Nature's Red List of endangered and threatened species categorizes the status of newly identified S. cordicitum as «data deficient,» but Bohs
says it «probably is really endangered.»
Strict legal frameworks would need to be adopted by nations,
says Jean - Christophe Vié, deputy chair of the species survival group at the International Union for the
Conservation of
nature (IUCN), who was not involved with the proposal.
«You never know what you're going to find when you're out in
nature — and you look,»
says Martinsen, a research associate at the Smithsonian's
Conservation Biology Institute and adjunct faculty in the University of Vermont's biology department.
Although the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature does not consider the spotted, spinner, and bottlenose dolphins endangered, the scientists
say the organization's classifications don't reflect what is happening to these insular populations — which, they
say, urgently need monitoring and management.
«In a landfill, you would find all sorts of nasty things,»
says Chris Bowden at the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature.
The Scottish bogs are «without doubt of global importance for
nature conservation», he
says.
«We're already working with public land managers and private landowners to make use of this valuable new information,»
said Scott Bearer, Senior
Conservation Scientist with The
Nature Conservancy and one of the assessment's co-authors.
Jean - Christophe Vié, deputy director of the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature's Species Programme, is more cautious: «I'm not sure you can ever
say a species is completely safe.»
The unproven
nature of ArborGen's fertility controls is concerning largely because they will be used to introduce a robust, foreign tree,
conservation groups
say.
«With now four distinct species, the
conservation status of each of these can be better defined and in turn added to the IUCN Red List,» Fennessy said in a statement, referring to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which recently submitted a proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List, taking into consideration the animal's rapid decline over the la
conservation status of each of these can be better defined and in turn added to the IUCN Red List,» Fennessy
said in a statement, referring to the International Union for
Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, which recently submitted a proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List, taking into consideration the animal's rapid decline over the la
Conservation of
Nature and Natural Resources, which recently submitted a proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List, taking into consideration the animal's rapid decline over the last 30 years.
«This
conservation over millennia could be because these proteins are vastly beneficial in
nature,»
says Chakrabortee, who is currently Research Development Officer for European and International Funding for the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The double major in the College of Science and Mathematics who plans to apply to enroll in veterinary medicine following graduation,
said «my love of raptors, my passion for
nature and
conservation, and my interest in exotic animal medicine all intersected perfectly at the SRC.»
«Many aspects of this recovery effort — from its scientific rigor to the collaborative enterprise that drove it — can serve as model [sic] to advance
conservation elsewhere,» Scott Morrison, the director of Conservation Science at the Nature Conservancy, said in a pr
conservation elsewhere,» Scott Morrison, the director of
Conservation Science at the Nature Conservancy, said in a pr
Conservation Science at the
Nature Conservancy,
said in a press release.
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Just recently, the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature reported that the giant panda was no longer an endangered species but «vulnerable,» though the same could not be
said for polar bears.
As Swedish Society for
Nature Conservation climate change expert Emma Lindberg
said, «It was the one major reason that steered society towards climate - friendly solutions.
Last September, the International Union for
Conservation of
Nature updated a 2015 report on neonicotinoids, which
said a review of more than 1,110 peer - reviewed research studies showed there was no doubt that flying through chemical - laden clouds of dust from neonic - treated farm fields is killing bees.