Sentences with phrase «species conservation strategies»

• Promotes innovative endangered species conservation strategies to address climate change and protect our precious public lands so that they continue to sustain wildlife populations, provide clean water and sequester carbon.

The agenda will include a range of warblers - centric topics, including climate change impacts; species conservation strategies; genetics and hybridization; and warbler songs and other vocalizations.

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Twelve different species have been designated as «priority species» by Chicago Wilderness, a regional conservation alliance, and the Nature Museum is proud to be one of the organizations developing strategies to protect these species.

Mass Audubon President Henry Tepper, who provided an overview of the prominent conservation organization's accomplishments during the past year — including advances in nature - based education, land and species protection, and addressing climate change — noted those strategies echoed McCarthy's themes.

In addition to guiding all aspects of NISC Secretariat operations, Jamie is currently providing the leadership necessary to develop an Arctic Invasive Alien Species (ARIAS) Strategy and Action Plan under the Arctic Council's Conservation of Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME) working groups; produce a documentary on invasive species entitled, Protecting What Matters; establish an annual Innovation Summit to advance U.S. scientific and technical capacities to address the most pressing invasive species issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species prSpecies (ARIAS) Strategy and Action Plan under the Arctic Council's Conservation of Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME) working groups; produce a documentary on invasive species entitled, Protecting What Matters; establish an annual Innovation Summit to advance U.S. scientific and technical capacities to address the most pressing invasive species issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species prspecies entitled, Protecting What Matters; establish an annual Innovation Summit to advance U.S. scientific and technical capacities to address the most pressing invasive species issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species prspecies issues; and raise the capacity of other governments to more effectively institutionalize invasive species prspecies programs.

Long - term survival of medicinal plant and animal species depends on well thought - out, widely adopted conservation strategies.

Those strategies belong to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which actually has the job to manage tuna and tunalike species (a point argued by Japan and other opponents of a CITES trade ban).

Nonetheless, some prominent biologists question whether «de-extincting» species is a smart conservation strategy — or if it merely distracts from protecting the thousands of species at risk today.

Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) thought they had finally won a measure of respect after adopting two major revisions to their conservation strategy — setting aside more habitat and designing recovery plans for multiple species.

The results also indicate that resource managers will have sufficient time to complete extensive biological surveys of ecological communities in mountain streams so that conservation planning strategies can adequately address all species.

«Baseline data on Bd can help to form a more complete picture of the presence and significance of this fungus and help guide and inform discussions on climate and species - related conservation strategies at both the local and global levels.»

The paper's findings concede whether conservation strategies based on umbrella species are effective at conserving background species because of the selected umbrella species, or because the strategies inherently involve protecting large areas remains an open question.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

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.

The UK - based Predator Conservation Trust has established the Brown Hyena Research Project to help form strategies to promote the long - term survival of the species and its southern Africa habitat.

In a surprising and innovative move, the delegates also agreed that scientific findings from animal behavior research — including the concept that some cetacean species have cultures — should be considered in conservation decisions and strategies for these marine mammals.

In a paper published in Conservation Letters, researchers from the University of Kent's Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) argue that despite record levels of funding being invested in enforcement and anti-poaching measures, many species are already on the path of extinction and bold strategies are needed to protect them.

The authors suggest that their findings reinforce the importance of the U.S. National Parks to the conservation of birds in the face of climate change and the value of monitoring species distribution to better inform conservation and management strategies.

«Knowing where they go at different times of the year is critical to designing effective conservation strategies for the species.»

President Barack Obama's administration is under court order to decide by 30 September how to protect the bird: declare it an endangered species — the nuclear option in conservation — or opt for the less onerous conservation strategies that officials are testing on its fellow rangeland bird, the lesser prairie chicken.

The data also may contribute to scientific understanding of the species» genetic diversity, how they find and choose a mate, how diseases are transmitted, and may inform conservation or monitoring strategies.

The researchers advocate a conservation strategy that emphasizes global representation, i.e., the planetary safeguarding of species function or evolutionary heritage planet - wide, rather than local representation.

The researchers also recommend that these strategies should take account of the cumulative impacts of development in individual countries by mapping the best locations for offsets to promote species conservation objectives, as well as by creating «no - go zones» for any development.

The reality is that in order to document, understand and launch conservation strategies, where needed, for most species on this planet, we have to kill and study them.

conservation biologist A scientist who investigates strategies for helping preserve ecosystems and especially species that are in danger of extinction.

Josh Donlan (Advanced Conservation Strategies, Utah and France) laid out the potential to eradicate invasive species on islands using genomic technology.

But from the perspective of saving species, it's a MacGuffin: a plot device that may impel the tired conservation narrative forward but is hardly a pragmatic strategy for preserving biodiversity.

Stewart Brand, Revive & Restore George Church, Harvard University, Wyss Institute Josh Donlan, Advanced Conservation Strategies William Karesh, EcoHealth Alliance Ryan Phelan, Revive & Restore Mike Phillips, Turner Endangered Species Fund Kent Redford, Archipelago Consulting Oliver Ryder, San Diego Frozen Zoo

The successful applicant must be well - versed in fundamental and applied clinical veterinary medicine in marine mammal species, and possess an in - depth knowledge of current conservation strategies as they relate to the Hawaiian Monk Seal.

«This strategy's four actions areas - tackling feral cats, providing safe havens for species at risk, improving habitat and intervening to avert extinctions - are commendable,» said Kelly O'Shanassy, Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive.

[April 20, 7:22 a.m. Insert I think this work bolsters the view of scientists who've been calling for a conservation strategy for polar bears and other ice - dependent species focused on areas of the Arctic where sea ice is projected to endure well into this greenhouse - heated era.

But from the perspective of saving species, it's a MacGuffin: a plot device that may impel the tired conservation narrative forward but is hardly a pragmatic strategy for preserving biodiversity.

• Securing financial and technical assistance available to owners and their communities seeking to redevelop brownfield properties or complete clean energy and conservation projects • Establishing cleanup criteria, institutional controls, financial assurance mechanisms, and other measures required under CERCLA and RCRA • Developing strategies to meet TSCA remediation and disposal standards for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and authorization to use encapsulation and similar abatement methods for PCBs, asbestos, and other building materials • Completing the analysis and application proceedings required for projects» regulatory requirements, including wetlands and other EH+S permitting • Scoping and completing impact assessments and reviews required under the National Environmental Policy Act • Completing surveys and identifying mitigation plans addressing Endangered Species Act concerns