Sentences with phrase «wildlife groups found»

The two wildlife groups found that whole hills have been levelled, silt traps designed to catch sediment before it reached the sea were inadequate, large areas of trees had been felled and the developer had ignored guidelines on mangrove conservation.

Not exact matches

By promoting data such as the 50 % average increase in wildlife found on organic farms, groups such as the Soil Association may be able to convert consumers who may otherwise have a concept of what organic means but not why they should be investing in it.

According to environmental advocacy group Hudson Riverkeeper, between 1947 to 1977 General Electric, GE, dumped more than 1.3 million pounds of cancer - causing PCBs into the Hudson River which has contaminated the waterway, wildlife, and has since been found in humans.

«We find the whole thing unconscionable and a clear indication that Alaska wildlife decision making is firmly rooted in the 1880s,» says Wayne Pacelle, the group's national director.

The findings from Otaki's group are «groundbreaking,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, who also studies the effects of radiation on wildlife near Fukushima and Chernobyl.

«These levels are known to impact both the human experience in national parks and have a range of repercussions for wildlife... so animals use sounds for many essential life functions, such as predator avoidance, navigation, finding food, mate attraction and maintenance of social groups.

What I found has worked quite well is joining various FB groups, not mentioning the book straight away, but contributing to posts and comments, posting photographs of wildlife and so on, and then mentioning the book when a «following» has been established.

You can find a comprehensive list of wildlife care groups on the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife website.

Visit this Facebook group by clicking here for a list of local wildlife rehabilitators, found as the pinned post.

Add to this a variety of outdoor team building activities for groups plus horse riding, wildlife tours, thunder egg rock fossicking, bushwalking, in - lodge massages, mini golf, volley ball, half court tennis and a recently renovated licensed bar and restaurant, and you have found your perfect retreat.

In addition to the wildlife and beautiful scenery, you can also find archaeological remains of the Tayrona indigenous group who once lived in the area and have given the park its name.

The work, led by Kashmira Kakati, a wildlife biologist, and financed by the Government of Assam and a group of conservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing the findings.

• An influential report by the wildlife trade monitoring group, TRAFFIC, supporting Japan's 1997 bid to reopen ivory trade found that Japan could not control ivory trade, but the conclusions were changed and supported Japan's successful bid to reopen ivory trade

Organized by TRAFFIC, a group that monitors the global trade of wildlife, the study found that 95 % of all poaching occurs in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

He found the customary component to be the largest sector in the outstation economy, both in 1979 and 2003, with the imputed value of wildlife representing up to 50 per cent of total income for some individuals and groups.7