Sentences with phrase «work on biodiversity»

He has given testimony on climate impacts in the United States Senate and his work on biodiversity impacts has been published in journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, and Conservation Biology in Practice.

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With luck and some hard preparatory work, nations will face these issues at Rio and sign conventions on climate change, forests, biodiversity and biotechnology.

Salvanatura is the main conservation organization in El Salvador, and it has done a great deal of work specifically with coffee farms, both research on biodiversity, preparing and critiquing Rainforest Alliance certification guidelines, and aiding in certification efforts.

Palsgaard has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2008, and sees the topic of sustainability as an essential issue for protecting the global environment, upholding biodiversity and providing suitable working conditions for local plantation workers.

Because of the increasing loss of agricultural biodiversity on a global scale, the Convention on Biological Diversity has developed a work programme on this subject in 1996.

We help to improve and manage habitats, increasing biodiversity and we work in partnership with conservation organisations on the ground locally and nationally.

«We look forward to working on a cross-party basis to protect biodiversity, create more woodland and secure access for future generations to enjoy.»

The UK is particularly successful in bringing together shooting and conservation and BASC's head of biodiversity, Ian Danby, who represents UK shooters on the working group and hosted meeting said; «The working group draws together fantastic expertise on conservation and shooting across Europe, from Greece to Finland and many countries in - between.

The working group is run by FACE, which represents European hunting associations, and advises them on their biodiversity manifesto and its annual review.

Ian Danby, BASC's head of biodiversity projects, said: «This is a practical demonstration of the value of conservation work carried out on shoots and farms.

For the last three years, around 550 researchers, including experts from the Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency), Leiden University and the University of Twente, have been working on providing insight into the effects of land degradation and the corresponding loss of biodiversity.

This work suggests that the management of neighborhoods and cities can have effects on biodiversity that extend from trees and birds all the way to the bug life in bedrooms and basements.

Working out what effect that will have on biodiversity is tricky.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

At that time, Portugal didn't rank high when it came to cave biodiversity, but Reboleira thought her country could do better — almost no one there had worked on cave organisms since the early 1960s.

All of this snake research and much more is possible because Bien, a professor in Drexel's Department of Biodiversity Earth and Environmental Science, and his students, have been welcomed to work in environmental protection on the U.S. Air Force's Warren Grove Gunnery Range.

For experimentalists, like us, working with colleagues and natural history collections at the Field Museum has been particularly important as they bring key insights on evolution and biodiversity.»

Professor Michael Benton from the University of Bristol, another co-author of the study, said: «This work illustrates a case of the impact of climate change on the evolution of animal biodiversity, and shows that for crocodilians, warming phases of our earth's history constitute ideal opportunities to colonise new environments.»

As a fellow, Adams worked on a research program connecting forest cover and biodiversity to human health.

«My research activities and interests were largely in phylogenetics, evolution and biodiversity — collecting and analyzing diverse data sets to reconstruct species relationships and also working on methods and theory in the field,» said Kearney.

Through the pilot project, eight scientists and engineers in the region will work on policy matters related to biodiversity, climate change, reducing disaster risks, health, and water management.

Other fellows in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Thailand will work on a variety of issues related to biodiversity and climate change.

The initiative, announced by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has tasked eight scientists and engineers to work for one year on policy matters related to biodiversity, climate change, reducing disaster risks, health, and water management.

In works such as The Diversity of Life (1992), Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), and The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (2006), he pleads for a union of science, religion, and the humanities to protect the biodiversity on which all earthly life depends.

Even some of the scientists who are supportive of Oren's quest have a hard time reconciling the paucity of mapinguari data with the rigor of his work on birds and biodiversity.

Representatives from 138 countries had met in Cartagena to work out a Biosafety Protocol, as called for by the 1992 United Nations Convention on Biodiversity.

Simultaneous work is being done on the evolutionary histories of species in an ecosystem in an attempt to understand and mitigate the effects of biodiversity loss.

«It's worrying that land use has already pushed biodiversity below the level proposed as a safe limit,» said Professor Andy Purvis of the Natural History Museum, London, who also worked on the study.

«Natural resources are the ultimate safety net when people can no longer farm,» says Nancy Gelman of the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group, which links six US conservation organisations working on the continent.

«But other data on canopy biodiversity and animal habitats, such as our work on Bornean orangutans, will also help inform decisionmakers.»

The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) are working together to attract talented early - career researchers, scientists, engineers and other professionals to strengthen international capacity and cooperation in fields such as climate, biodiversity, conservation, humanities and astrophysics research.

For instance, he was a Lead Author in the Working Group II of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Global Biodiversity Outlook.

Bringing together a group of talented, energetic, dedicated research scientists and university students willing to accept the challenge of working in a remote area, the formation of TEAM BUFO has generated an enormous increase in our understanding of cane toads and their impacts on biodiversity.

To sum up, teachers need to support sustainable alternatives to neoliberal capitalism with its emphasis on economic growth; protect nature's resources for future generations; protect ecosystems and help support biodiversity; support a community based economics, and a grassroots democracy that includes participatory and direct forms, embody anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic pedagogies that respect diversity and work from a post-patriarchal perspective.

This resource holds Welsh language teaching notes, pupil worksheets and PowerPoint presentation on the conservation work of gamekeepers in retaining and enhancing the biodiversity of the countryside

The theme for this year is «Imagine, Act, Inspire» where students and teachers will aim to showcase work in reducing energy, waste and water usage, increases in biodiversity, and how they engage with the wider school community on these issues.

On October 11, 2016, Dr. Mwangi Githuri, the Director of Biodiversity and Social Monitoring at Wildlife Works, leading teams assessing environmental and social impacts of REDD + projects in Africa, gave a thrilling seminar on Implementing Redd +: Policy and practical issues from the local to the national levelOn October 11, 2016, Dr. Mwangi Githuri, the Director of Biodiversity and Social Monitoring at Wildlife Works, leading teams assessing environmental and social impacts of REDD + projects in Africa, gave a thrilling seminar on Implementing Redd +: Policy and practical issues from the local to the national levelon Implementing Redd +: Policy and practical issues from the local to the national levels.

Working with researchers from Humboldt State University, University of California, Berkeley, and citizen scientists, we are studying the impacts of climate change on redwoods» growth, carbon storage, and forest biodiversity through the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative (RCCI).

She will be conducting artist workshops and producing a body of work focusing on the rich, natural, and fragile biodiversity of the area.

In association with the Domaine National du Louvre et des Tuileries, an ensemble of outdoor works focusing on the themes of nature, biodiversity and the environment are showcased at the Tuileries Garden, Jardin des Plantes and the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle.

This, and more recent work I've been doing on the loss of large sized invertebrates from the coast, makes the point that looking at biodiversity is not nearly enough to understand the effects of the Anthropocene.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

But as anyone who has worked on forestry issues — particularly in the tropical regions home to the world's greatest biodiversity — knows, the demise of natural forests usually comes in the form of a double whammy: first come the loggersbut then come the settlers who turn the land into farms or plantations, preventing the re-growth of natural forest.

SM: Well, as a landowner, and as an organization that's dedicated to the protection of biodiversity of life on Earth, we feel very strongly that climate change poses a significant threat to biodiversity, and therefore, it's one of the largest threats to our mission — both to everything that we've done in the last 57 years and the work that we will do over the next 100 years or beyond.

Land managers have realized that static protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.

He works collaboratively with the Bren School and UC Santa Barbara to model climate impacts on species in California, and with the National Botanical Institute in Cape Town, South Africa to model biotic change resulting from global warming in biodiversity hot spots in that region.

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An exciting example of what is yet to come is Kathleen Lyons» exciting new work on anthropogenic biodiversity change more than 6000 years ago (Lyons et al 2015), which made an appearance in one of the talks.

El Pueblito Iguazu's work in protecting the surrounding environment includes the release of butterflies to their natural habitat to enrich biodiversity, providing education on native tree species, tree planting, conserving energy by using candle lights at night, and more.

Coffeelink prides itself on supporting organizations that work to conserve biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods, such as the Rainforest Alliance.