Sentences with phrase «since wild land»

Concerns about connectivity reach far beyond the border, since wild land is being broken up or broken down almost everywhere in the world.

Not exact matches

Originally formed to protect our native forests and birds, our role has since grown to include all of New Zealand's wildlife and wild places — on land and in our oceans, lakes and rivers.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

Animals used on farms make up the majority of those raised and used by humans, with an estimated 33 billion land animals alive at any given time.18 This estimate is more exact than any other we will consider, since governments conduct counts of livestock in order to understand and regulate local economies.19 However, this is a somewhat similar undercounting to what we saw for lab animals: fish and shellfish are not counted, and in some areas they are raised for consumption in large numbers.20 The estimates also neglect other animals used for food, such as wild fish or commonly hunted land animals, although these animals may be affected by some of the advocacy aimed at helping farmed animals through promoting diet change.

Originally formed to protect our native forests and birds, our role has since grown to include all of New Zealand's wildlife and wild places — on land and in our oceans, lakes and rivers.

It has an array of hills, lochs, glens, ridges, basalt cliffs, and patches of gorse, providing a remarkably wild piece of highland landscape within a five - mile radius of land and has probably been a Royal Park since the 12th century and is now the responsibility of government cultural agency Historic Scotland.

Wild et al., using measurements over land, report brightening since 1990, [13][32][33] and Pinker et al. [34] found that slight dimming continued over land while brightening occurred over the ocean.

Originally formed to protect our native forests and birds, Forest & Bird's role has since grown to include protection of all native species and wild places, — on land and in our oceans, lakes and rivers.

In addition to Adrian Burd's recommendation, Al should read the comprehensive review by Wild: «Global dimming and brightening: A review» http://www.leif.org/EOS/2008JD011470.pdf «Recent brightening can not supersede the greenhouse effect as the main cause of global warming, since land surface temperatures overall increased by 0.8 °C from 1960 to 2000, even though solar brightening did not fully outweigh prior dimming within this period...» The story is nowhere near as simplistic as Al would have it.

Originally formed to protect our native forests and birds, our role has since grown to include all of New Zealand's wildlife and wild places — on land and in our oceans, lakes and rivers.

Originally formed to protect our native forests and birds, our role has since grown to include all of New Zealand's wildlife and wild places — on land and in our oceans, lakes and rivers.

Since the early days of America's Wild West when homesteaders competed in land lotteries, the allure of owning your own piece of property has never wavered.