Sentences with phrase «spent on conservation»

Fact — If the money being used to subsidize wind power was spent on conservation, insulation, energy efficient lighting and heating equipment, and fuel efficient vehicles, the reductions in fossil fuel use would be many times greater than the benefits provided by wind power.

At the moment the application fee does not cover the necessary site visit, costing us money we should be spending on conservation work.»

Not exact matches

While each zoo has promised to donate $ 1 million per year to panda conservation in China (and spend another $ 500,000 on bamboo to feed the beasts), the expenditure should be worth it.

«If we really want to spend several billion per year purchasing conservation easements on property, then we should go and just do that,» Looney said.

One of the reform proposals most hotly debated in the Senate, but ultimately defeated, was the Lugar - Lautenberg Amendment, which would have shifted subsidies to fruit and vegetable growers and cut overall spending on subsidies in order to shift money to conservation, biofuel and nutrition programs.

Here we are on year five of standardized tracking of how much the two - person Coffee & Conservation household spends on coffee.

The park district plans to spend $ 910,000 on the purchase, which will be covered by a $ 400,000 grant from the Illinois Department of Conservation and $ 418,000 in donations from local developers.

The latest research shows shoot providers spend a quarter of a billion pounds on conservation each year, generating work which is equivalent to 16,000 full - time conservation jobs.»

* Shoot providers spend # 250 million a year on conservation.

* Shooters spend 2.7 million work days on conservation - the equivalent of 12,000 full - time jobs.

Green Alliance advocates Britain take a more activist stance on energy and food conservation, alongside greater spending on renewable energy production, to protect against further price shocks and the volatility that always seems to send prices up rather than down.

The UK's largest shooting organisation will seek a meeting with Mr Gove to highlight that shooting has a management influence on two thirds of the UK's rural land area and that shoot providers spend nearly # 250 million - a-year on conservation.

One area where Bartels feels that the County Legislature missed a prime opportunity to reduce spending was by not implementing the alternative energy generation and conservation projects that were proposed by the Environmental Committee on which she served.

The National League of Conservation Voters said it would spend $ 1.5 million on its initial ad campaign against the «Flat Earth Five» aimed at defeating five House members who have raised doubt about global climate change.

The League of Conservation Voters is spending $ 380,000 on a TV ad campaign over the next two weeks to boost Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz in the Aug. 9 Democratic primary.

After her dramatic escape in March, she spent three weeks at a Wildlife Conservation Society camp in Congo, visiting with colleagues and keeping tabs on the turmoil in the CAR.

A recent study released by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory predicts annual spending on energy efficiency and conservation to quadruple to as much as $ 12 billion a year by 2020.

John H. Schulz, a resource scientist at the Missouri Department of Conservation, has calculated that as many as 15 million mourning doves are killed in North America each year from lead poisoning, mostly from eating spent lead shot that looks like the weed seed they depend on for food.

«Anyone who has spent time on the ocean over the last 20 or 30 years will tell you that they used to see lots of sharks and that they don't anymore,» says Boris Worm, a marine conservation biologist and leading expert in shark populations at Dalhousie University in Canada.

«We've been spending millions of dollars on lemur conservation in Madagascar, but despite spending all this money, no one has ever quantified the threat from the in - country pet lemur trade,» said Reuter.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

In just over a decade, and having spent $ 20 million in total, it has helped to reverse the decay and put the town on a sustainable conservation footing (see «Under a shadow»).

«Doing a master's degree is a common way to get a taste of an area and see if it's for you,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, who spent months on end in Ghana, surveying wildlife for his PhD in conservation biology.

Every year the foundation spends approximately $ 250 million on efforts to promote environmental conservation, improving patient care, and scientific research, including a focus on marine biology, astronomy, and biological imaging.

After the death of a close friend, mathematician Matthew Holden at the University of Queensland in Australia calculated that if the 1.2 million people buried traditionally in the US each year had natural burials instead, it would amount to spending $ 3.8 billion on conservation (Conservation Letters, doconservation (Conservation Letters, doConservation Letters, doi.org/cfw6).

The world's zoos work hard and spend enormous resources on the conservation of endangered species, but the resources are not always optimally spent.

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Seeking to learn more about conservation decision making, Amelia spent the last three years working at the Centre as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on the prioritization of management actions on islands in Western Australia and Queensland.

Starting as an intern marine ornithologist working on the Farallon Islands in 1981, Bill spent 15 years as the Director of Marine Ecology at PRBO Conservation Science before establishing the Farallon Institute.

You have no idea how much time I've spent watching documentaries on them and reading about the conservation efforts.

A 20 - year valley resident, Tom has spent much of that time running several different non-profit organizations focused on conservation, environmental protection, and animal welfare.

The government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) on conservation programs to protect endangered species threatened by all kinds of human impacts, including the feline companions we've kept by our sides for 9,500 years.

On an incredible journey of discovery through the countries of Latin America you will also have the chance to contribute to both the local community and environmental conservation, spending time helping at a wonderful school in Honduras as well as working on the Frontier Big Cats, Turtles and Primate Conservation projecOn an incredible journey of discovery through the countries of Latin America you will also have the chance to contribute to both the local community and environmental conservation, spending time helping at a wonderful school in Honduras as well as working on the Frontier Big Cats, Turtles and Primate Conservatconservation, spending time helping at a wonderful school in Honduras as well as working on the Frontier Big Cats, Turtles and Primate Conservation projecon the Frontier Big Cats, Turtles and Primate ConservationConservation project.

She mentored young children to help them achieve their career goal of diving and marine conservation, and she has a full grasp on working in resorts as she spent nearly 5 years across all Stuarts Cove Dive Bahamas locations.

After a memorable time spent in Deep Creek Conservation Park, you will travel to Cape Jervis at the southernmost tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula for your overnight accommodation on a working sheep station.

Chabil Mar is dedicated to sustainable tourism practices and environmental conservation and is proud to employ locals on its staff and encourages guests to spend money at the nearby Placencia Village in order to sustainably develop the region.

(Includes 2 hotel nights and 7 liveaboard nights on Jardines Aggressor II) For travelers on the Cuba Travel Program II, you will spend 2 hotel nights at the Iberostar Parque Central Hotel in Havana, and will visit with Cuban scientists and marine experts about ocean conservation and cultural exchanges.

I spend a lot of time analyzing global climate and energy trends, far - flung conservation efforts, work aimed at improving prospects for the world's least fortunate and new technologies with promising future applications, the latest being a novel coating, described in Nature, that can in theory cool a building even on sunny days.

Chu gave a talk this afternoon on the science of climate change and the $ 70 billion federal stimulus monies his department is spending on alternative energy and conservation projects.

Rather than telling us we don't «understand» our bills, and spending money on costly conservation advertising that claims to save us money, the Ontario government needs to take bold steps to get costs down.

1530: China's cabinet has announced it will spend $ 372 billion on energy conservation projects and anti-pollution measures over the next three and a half years.

The League of Conservation Voters raised nearly $ 11.5 million in 2015 and spent $ 45 million on the 2016 election.

The League of Conservation Voters, which along with other environmental campaigners spent heavily on the contest, noted that it had unseated several members of its «dirty dozen» target list.

The authors of this observation are Tom Adams and Ross McKitrick, in their report, «Demand Side Mismanagement: How Conservation Became Waste», wherein they also say the Government's official propaganda about spending billions to save billions more, when challenged, met with this answer: «The government replied «external financial audits were not performed on these programs,» and the rest of the information given was too vague to assess the government's claims.»

That's a lot of money that could otherwise be spent on cheaper conservation, efficiency and renewables.

Studies show that every Euro spent on new nuclear power could save ten times more emissions if it was invested in energy conservation measures - thus also securing energy supply ten times cheaper.

The expert also says China would need to spend more than 1 billion Yuan or nearly 160 million US dollars, on energy conservation and developing renewable energy by 2020, to honor its commitment to reduce carbon intensity.