Image: Burt Jones and Maurine ShimlockImage: Conservation International/Mark ErdmannImage: Conservation International/Mark ErdmannImage: Shawn Heinrichs[Conservation International]
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The House bill terminates a popular conservation program, the Conservation Stewardship Program, while opening loopholes for CAFOs to access conservation dollars.
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It is the Wildlife Conservation Society, not World Conservation Society.
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Well, it's bird conservation, but bird conservation takes you everywhere.
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It was the Wildlife Conservation Society, not the World Conservation Society.
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Conservation: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reviewing a conservation rule.
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There are countless opportunities to participate, whether it's marine conservation, jungle conservation, or wildlife conservation, there's an opportunity for you to do good during your year off.
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Another exciting development was last month's launch of the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress.
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When the 2014 farm bill cut conservation measures by $4 billion over 10 years, it included cuts to the largest farm conservation program, the Conservation Reserve Program.
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Further, funding for voluntary relocations and land conservation programs, such as the Land and Water Conservation Fund and North American Wetland Conservation Act should be significantly increased.
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It's the primary federal funding source for private land conservation, including conservation easements, forest and grassland restoration and management, wetland protections, soil conservation and improved water quality programs.
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"The Rhino Impact Bond (RIB) is the world's first financial instrument for species conservation, transferring the risk of funding conservation from donors to impact investors by linking conservation performance to financial performance," according to Conservation Capital, the company arranging the bond offer.
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Female conservation scientists and foresters make 108.0% as much as male conservation scientists and foresters.
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The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has been a successful tool for land conservation.
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The Getty Conservation Institute completed its four-year conservation of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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No appetite for conservation Northeastern Democrats in Congress like Tip O'Neill showed no appetite for conservation.
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Fifteen years ago, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership was formed to promote Roosevelt's spirit of conservation.
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It is the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, not the Red Rock Canyon Conservation Area.
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I mean, she couldn't get there in the end, but conservation of energy, conservation of resources.
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Dolphin conservation won't be a success without ecotourism, and ecotourism won't be a success without conservation.
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Dallas The Dallas Museum of Art's conservation department allows visitors to view a paintings conservator at work, alongside a gallery exhibition detailing conservation research, which includes key findings from various conservation projects.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature, a leading wildlife conservation group, describes the population as vulnerable.
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Lora Snyder is a campaign director at Oceana, the largest conservation group dedicated solely to ocean conservation.
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Conservation Fund: This is a program designed to fund new energy conservation technology and programs for businesses.
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"This is huge news for conservation both in New Zealand and internationally," conservation minister Eugenie Sage said.
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"In situ conservation may be the only feasible tool in the conservation toolbox for many such plants."
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"Not only does conservation burial help protect land, but the burial area becomes hallowed ground, restored to its natural condition and protected forever with a conservation easement," explains the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery.
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Okay, first of all, we've been in conservation for 245 years, and conservation is a totally bipartisan effort.
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Opponents dispute that and say corruption in African governments means conservation funds may not be spent on conservation.
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Finally, Congress should expand the Conservation Innovation Grants program, which has supported dozens of novel conservation programs and calls for the investment in timely, publicly-available research on the economic value of conservation activities.
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This week, members of Partnership of Conservation (P6900C), a nationwide coalition advocating for increased land conservation, are in Washington to build on this momentum and talk to lawmakers about the important tool of conservation easements.
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The Center for Western Priorities, League of Conservation Voters, and other conservation groups were quick to celebrate Zinke's departure.
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Seattle's chapter of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a marine conservation group, is hoping this time will be different.
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The figures include data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, government estimates and observations by conservation groups.
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Conservation action, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has positively impacted the declining numbers of pandas.
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Meanwhile, partnerships between the Chinese government and international conservation nongovernmental organizations and zoos have spread research, conservation and breeding efforts.
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Leblond and the Cerf Island Conservation Program, part of the Marine Conservation Society Seychelles, cleans coastlines with teams of volunteers.
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He was also the conservation director of Friends of the Earth and the treasurer of the League of Conservation Voters.
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Here are links to their websites, listed in alphabetical order:Amazon Conservation AssociationAmazon Conservation TeamAmazon WatchRainforest Foundation USRainforest TrustRainforest Action Network
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The Wildlife Conservation Society, the Zoological Society of London and Panthera led the study, and many other conservation groups participated.
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Our organization, Tompkins Conservation, has donated roughly one million acres of privately assembled conservation land to Chile for national parks.
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"The fortress conservation paradigm, or separating local people from wildlife and conservation, creates pathways to illegal economies," Ms. Hübschle said.
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"Regulated hunting has been the cornerstone and most important conservation development in the 20th century," the Conservation Force website said.
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In Kenya, Ami Vitale has been documenting animal conservation for years, working with conservation organizations trying to protect endangered animals.
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The news came amid the world's largest conservation event, a 21-day-long meeting called the IUCN World Conservation Congress.
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Such targeted conservation "would be transformative in our ability to deal with invasive rodents, which are a major extinction driver," says Josh Donlan, an ecologist, expert in island conservation, and director of the nonprofit Advanced Conservation Strategies.
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In the past few years, Congress overwhelmingly passed the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, a wildfire funding fix, a pro-conservation Farm Bill, and the Senate recently passed the America's Conservation Enhancement Act.
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Secretaries Zinke and Perdue would need assistance from Congress, which controls the purse strings on farm bill conservation programs as well as the Land and Water Conservation Fund— another potentially crucial funding tool in the conservation of migrations.
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Taylor, a camp commander at the Sierra Conservation Center and Ventura Conservation Camp, began his career with the department in 1988.
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Ryan Bidwell is the senior director at Conservation Lands Foundation, which aims to protect, restore and expand the National Conservation Lands.
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To the Editor: The Endangered Species Act is our nation's most powerful wildlife conservation law, a linchpin of modern species conservation.
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H.R. 2 would cut nearly $1 billion in funding for conservation overall, with the Conservation Stewardship Program taking the biggest hit.
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The monuments will complement the administration's Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, which identifies lands for potential renewable energy development and conservation.
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Upstairs in the conservation studio, Elizabeth Thompson, the collection's textile conservation supervisor, oversees the work of two dozen or so conservators.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art appointed Michael Gallagher as deputy director for conservation and Sherman Fairchild as chairman of paintings conservation.
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Some in the conservation community are worried that the president's comments will polarize the discussion around shark conservation, but Watson isn't worried.
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But he really saw conservation efforts at work, on the local level, while on a recent trip to Kenya with Conservation International.
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"Tanzania is among global leaders in conservation activities, having allocated over 32 percent of our country's total land to conservation," he said.
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And Luke Hunter, chief conservation officer for Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, said the spat is almost certainly about sex.
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The Global Wildlife Conservation and the Rainforest Trust will match the hammer price by 400 percent, to go toward the conservation project.
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Successful conservation requires a balanced, long-term approach but sometimes the goals of pursuing profit and long term conservation don't always coincide.
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All but two National Conservation Areas in the bill would be managed as motorized recreation areas, prioritizing off-road vehicles over conservation.
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But there could be fewer than 2,000 left, according to Philip McLellan, a conservation pilot brought in by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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"We need increased, coordinated conservation efforts -- such as those which improved the situation for two species of kiwi, demonstrating that conservation works."
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Her father set up an ornithological station there, founded the Tour du Valat conservation center and became a leader in wetlands conservation.
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There's a magical mountain on the Colombian coast, said Lina Valencia, a biological anthropologist and Colombia conservation officer at Global Wildlife Conservation.
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Two current conservation programs, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program, currently cost taxpayers about $3 billion a year.
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Aves Argentinas, the country's oldest conservation organization, will receive up to $5.8 million for the conservation of about 65,000 acres of wetlands.
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The farm bill should include protections for environmental laws, prioritizing conservation of at-risk species, supporting wildlife coexistence, measuring wildlife outcomes of farm bill conservation programs, maintaining support for Conservation Technical Assistance and encouraging federal agencies to prioritize habitat connectivity.
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Bernie Tershy, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a co-founder of Conservation Metrics, points out that California has immense reaches of plausible grizzly habitat, public sentiment that favors wildlife conservation and a robust technology industry.
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The 136 pangolins would be taken to a conservation area under the care of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.
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A guest staying at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area snapped these photos and shared them with Panthera, an organization devoted to big cat conservation.
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However, the authors note that proper conservation efforts could restore the population, and Ecuador is already drafting a conservation plan to protect it.
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Obama has repeatedly nudged Congress to take more action on conservation, including pushing for more funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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As leaders in both conservation and renewable energy, we encourage the BLM to move quickly to finalize the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan.
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Mr. D'Angeli, the director of the Wildlife Conservation and Education Center in Ridgefield Park, has spent more than two decades promoting bat conservation.
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The study was led by Butterfly Conservation, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the British Trust for Ornithology and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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Our initiative addresses a blind spot in international conservation thinking, namely, the cost the farmers have to bear because of conservation related activities.
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The researchers first consulted the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, the authority on the conservation status of the world's species.
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They were also ordered to pay $2,000 to the State Department of Environmental Conservation and to contribute $200,000 to two wildlife conservation groups.
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Conservation and restoration across habitats must be a priority by implementing land use and land management practices that prioritize the conservation of biodiversity.
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Partnership for Conservation (P4C), an organization that has advocated for increased land conservation in the U.S. and is made up of individuals and private companies, land trusts, sportsmen's organizations and conservation groups in more than 40 states, has developed legislative proposals that would curb limited instances of abuse but also ensure that the significant expansion of private conservation can continue to grow.
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"Elephants have had enough of the ivory trade, and so has the world," Cristian Samper, president and CEO of Wildlife Conservation Society, said in a statement after the vote at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress.
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"Traditional conservation approaches have generally used the power of government to achieve their conservation goals - and quite successfully," Geddes told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The Crocker Art Museum will undertake a conservation of five Wayne Thiebaud paintings following a $15,000 contribution from Bank of America's Art Conservation Project.
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Wednesday's action by the conservation groups — which includes the League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club — tees up that test.
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The future of conservation As more species slide towards extinction, the use of assisted reproductive technologies as a conservation mechanism has entered the spotlight.
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Guy BalmeCape TownThe writer is deputy director of conservation science and director of the Leopard Program for Panthera, a global wild cat conservation group.
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"These lands are critically important to conservation on soil, water, fish, wildlife," said Ashley Dayer, a professor of conservation social science at Virginia Tech.
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Manufactures must follow these procedures to ensure their products comply with applicable energy conservation standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975.
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He would boost annual funding for two voluntary USDA conservation initiatives — the Environmental Quality Incentive Program and Conservation Stewardship Program — by $7 billion each.
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In 1908 he hosted a conference of governors, focused on conservation, and nearly every governor present went home and formed a state conservation commission.
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"With now four distinct species, the conservation status of each of these can be better defined and in turn hopefully added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List in time," Dr. Julian Fennessy of Giraffe Conservation Foundation said in a statement.
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"This is good news for Florida panther conservation," Kipp Frohlich, deputy director for the FWC's Division of Habitat and Species Conservation, said in a statement.
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The bill ignores the unique role CSP plays in enrolling entire agricultural operations and in providing payments for advanced conservation enhancements and expected conservation benefits.
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Through her plan, Warren would expand the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Conservation Stewardship Program — a voluntary program that compensates farmers for conservation-focused farming practices.
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As we approach the next 100 years of conservation, we must remember that bird conservation is not only about birds; it's about people, as well.
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Conservation Healthy soil depends on conservation management practices that invigorate its ability to cycle nutrients, capture and store water, and sequester carbon from the air.
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The building was denied heritage status after the Heritage Conservation Committee maintained its ruling that only buildings over 60 years old are eligible for conservation.
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Finally, the position will provide additional policy support to the Government Affairs department, regional and conservation programs staff on natural resource and conservation issues, as needed.
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The researchers, from the independent R.R.R. Conservation Network, have been tracking eagles' migration routes since 2015 in an effort to focus conservation efforts on specific areas.
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Matt Brown, the Nature Conservancy's Africa conservation director, told Mashable in an interview that the deal could serve as a model for future ocean conservation arrangements.
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Every species of pangolin is listed as either Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (the world's biggest conservation organization).
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The Senate just passed a public lands package that will restore a conservation program funneling offshore drilling revenue to land conservation, according to The Washington Post.
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Our bill would increase the strength of the private, nonprofit and state Conservation Corps and save taxpayers money on conservation projects that federal agencies cannot complete.
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"Here we were trying to do conservation, trying to get communities involved in conservation, and women were dying giving birth," said Marco Cerezo, Fundaeco's general director.
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Deborah Williams, former executive director of the Alaskan Conservation Foundation, expressed a similar sentiment when discussing controversial conservation efforts in the late '70s and early '24.953s.
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The bill also permanently authorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), a program that directs revenue from oil and gas royalties to fund conservation initiatives.
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Bernhardt's backers looked to boost his conservation credentials, passing out letters supporting his nomination from western water associations, conservation organizations, tribes, sportsmen's groups and others. Sen.
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In celebration of Galante's discovery, the Turtle Conservancy and Global Wildlife Conservation are pledging a $100,000 match to further conservation efforts of the Fernandina Giant Tortoise.
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Buttigieg calls for increased incentives for conservation, paying farmers to maximize land conservation and biodiversity in rural areas while reducing bureaucratic barriers to accessing said programs.
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He is vice chairman of the Outdoor industry's Conservation Alliance, and a board member of the Outdoor Alliance, American Alpine Club, and the Conservation Lands Foundation.
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Prior to Dreamworlds and Catastrophes, the "Positron" materials underwent extensive conservation, with the collages cared for by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia.
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House lawmakers passed a public lands conservation measure on Tuesday that will add more than 1 million acres of new wilderness, restore a conservation program funneling offshore drilling revenue to land conservation, and establish new national monuments to honor civil rights activists and Civil War soldiers.
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We can confidently trace the trajectory of U.S. zoo conservation efforts from Hornaday's bison reintroduction, to the golden lion tamarin project, to zoos embracing field conservation, to the world's leading award for animal conservation – The Indianapolis Prize – being introduced by an American zoological society in 2006.
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It takes a few years before investments in conservation show results, lead author Anthony Waldron, a conservation scientist at Oxford University, told me in a phone interview.
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The bills could also incentivize voluntary conservation efforts, let states enter "cooperative agreements" for recovery and prioritize data from local communities in making scientific decisions about conservation.
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The bills could also incentivize voluntary conservation efforts, let states enter "cooperative agreements" for recovery and prioritize data from local communities in making scientific decisions about conservation.
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The ESA listing brings an equal number of -- or perhaps even more -- lions lost, with much less revenue for lion conservation and local community participation in conservation.
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Some conservation funds should also be devoted to research on how and why landowners participate in conservation programs in order to better understand the motivations of landowners.
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ASRI weaves healthcare, finances and conservation into one tapestry -- a vision printed on the uniform of its conservation staff: "Masyarakat sejahtera, hutan sehat" (Prosperous society, healthy forests).
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"Grooming each other is helpful," said Merlin Tuttle, an ecologist, conservationist and wildlife photographer specializing in bat ecology and conservation, who also founded Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation.
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The League of Conservation Voters Action Fund and United Steelworkers Works rolled out the effort Friday, saying their aim is to elect pro-conservation, pro-jobs candidates.
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To figure out where this myth started and why it's so popular, The Verge called up Winifred Frick, the senior director of conservation science at Bat Conservation International.
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Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab found that VR is uniquely effective at changing conservation behavior, as shown in experiments about reducing paper use and hot water conservation.
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These scientists think de-extinction will inevitably lead to the sacrificing of some conservation efforts, since the money spent resurrecting lost animals would come from overall conservation budgets.
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Dr. Oded Berger-Tal Editor of 'Conservation Behavior: Applying Behavioral Ecology to Wildlife Conservation and Management,' Professor of desert ecology at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevWell, no.
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Image: Primate Conservation"Primates, such as these two tarsier species, serve as flagships for conservation awareness," the study's lead author, Western Washington University researcher Myron Shekelle, told MongaBay.
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Many conservation organizations, such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), say that if all nations took similar action, it could dramatically reverse the decline of African elephant populations.
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Columbia provides annual product and cash donations to a variety of conservation-focused non-profits such as The Conservation Alliance, The Ocean Foundation, and the National Park Foundation.
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The Alongside Wildlife Foundation — founded by conservation biologist David Steen (who is a bonafide snake guru) — awards grants to diverse researchers engaged in conservation research around the planet.
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The Antiquities Act, a 111-year-old law signed by conservation champion President Theodore Roosevelt, gives the president the power to set aside federally owned land for conservation.
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Leading conservation groups such as WWF, Conservation International and Ocean Conservancy now recognize the global imperative for expansion of aquaculture, and are actively working to encourage best practices.
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For more than 30 years she has served on the front lines of conservation, with expertise in field ecology, strengthening wildlife conservation policies, and addressing wildlife trafficking issues.
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The release goes on to highlight the bill's elimination of the Conservation Stewardship Program, which encourages farmers to work with the government on conservation efforts for worked land.
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Peter Metcalf is the vice chairman of the Outdoor industry's Conservation Alliance, and a board member of the Outdoor Alliance, American Alpine Club and the Conservation Lands Foundation.
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By focusing efforts on conservation before the listing, the states were able to provide substantial financial assistance for landowners to participate in state-based, stakeholder-led conservation programs.
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A key Senate panel has voted to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), a move that conservation groups see as a significant victory.
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Exotic-game ranches see themselves not as an enemy of wildlife conservation but as an ally, arguing that they contribute a percentage of their profits to conservation efforts.
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What started as a lesson in water conservation became the context for reporting what happens when the reasoning behind conservation — maintaining clean water — is dismissed as needless expenditure.
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Indigenous peoples, local leaders and conservation groups around the world are already busy setting aside protected areas that reflect the conservation, economic and cultural values of nearby communities.
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As an energy conservation assistant, Ms. Colón would travel to public housing developments throughout the city to educate tenants about energy-efficient lighting, recycling and other conservation methods.
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Ducks Unlimited, a nonprofit waterfowl conservation organization whose members are primarily duck hunters, has thrown its support behind the conservation provisions in both versions of the farm bill.
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Washington, D.C. The Lunder Conservation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum was one of the first to open a visible conservation center, just over 13 years ago.
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Conservation investments in America's wildlife, national parks and public lands, and the Land and Water Conservation Fund have quietly emerged as rare uniting issues during this divisive time.
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An interactive experience transports visitors to the Arctic to promote conservation efforts An interactive experience transports visitors to the Arctic to promote conservation efforts America is changing fast!
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One of the biggest problems for ocean conservation, many scientists say, is that the sectoral agreements rely on binding measures for compliance, while conservation pacts, such as the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals and the Convention on Biological Diversity, depend almost exclusively on voluntary measures.
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In the book, conservation biologist Aditya Gangadharan talks about mistaking elephants for boulders while doing work in India, but is also vocal about how colonialism plays into conservation efforts.
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"There's incredible value in having eyes on the reefs all over the world," said Emily Darling, an associate conservation scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in New York.
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The animals got their new designation from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an environmental organization that keeps track of the conservation status of plants and animals.
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Our access to America's iconic landscapes and waterways has been protected for 50 years by the Land and Water Conservation Fund, one of our nation's most important conservation programs.
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Before we go any further, we want to make one thing abundantly clear: The voluntary land conservation our nation has accomplished through conservation easements is both laudable and valuable.
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If you want to help protect the Amazon rainforest from forest fires, you can donate to charities like the Amazon Conservation Association, the Amazon Conservation Team, and Rainforest Trust.
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George Thornton is a former CEO of the National Wild Turkey Federation and member of the Partnership for Conservation, which advocates for permanent reauthorization Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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Megan Owen, a conservation ecologist at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and an author of the study, offered a human analogy for how this ability works.
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Furthermore, while Congress provided a modest boost in funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, it failed to reauthorize America's best conservation program before it expires this September.
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"It requires intensive sustained efforts for decades to recover species from these catastrophic low levels," said Richard Young, the head of conservation science at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust .
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About half of all Conservation Stewardship Program funds have no impact on environmental quality because they are used to pay farmers for conservation practices that have already been adopted.
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Even Republican legislators disregarded Trump's proposed cuts to a specific ESA program — the Endangered Species Conservation Fund, a crucial program providing grants to states for conservation planning and projects.
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SOMEONE JUST KILLED ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING JAGUARS IN THE US Plastic conservation and bans have come into the spotlight, as companies and cities work to promote environmental conservation.
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After the mother ape was discovered, rescuers from the Aceh provincial conservation agency rushed the orangutan and her baby to nearby clinic run by the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP).
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The world population of southern white rhino, once on the brink of extinction, has recovered to around 20,000 thanks to intensive conservation efforts, according to conservation group Save the Rhino.
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The destructive weed - Palmer amaranth – has spread through seed sold to farmers in the conservation program, according to Iowa's top weeds scientist, Bob Hartzler, and the conservation group Pheasants Forever.
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The FWS proposed a conservation strategy Monday that would allow the Defense Department to earn conservation credits in order to offset the negative impact military operations have on gopher tortoises.
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It makes no economic or conservation sense to degrade this National Conservation Area and disrupt the pragmatic land management approach that has been able to accommodate both of these objectives.
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Burgeoning new technology -- such as the methods used in this study -- may offer promising alternatives for conservation efforts, but technology is not a panacea for wildlife conservation, according to Roth.
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Rather, she urges for multiple strategies -- including forest conservation, natural breeding programs, the use of rangers to guard against poaching and assisted reproductive technologies -- to be used in wildlife conservation.
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Conservation professionals acknowledge that we will need to perform a sort of conservation triage, a painful process of deciding which species to try to rescue and which to let go.
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"For those of us who work in conservation-related science, it almost feels as if we're writing obituaries for the planet," said Steven Monfort, chair of the Smithsonian Conservation Commons.
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Hunters argue that the trophies actually aid in elephant conservation: The fees they pay to governments for the permits to hunt are supposed to be fed back into conservation efforts.
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Conservation easements, a tool aimed at incentivizing private land conservation, provide a tax break for landowners when they donate land with certain environmental or historical features to a qualified trust.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, the authority on the conservation status of the world's species, says the koala population is declining and vulnerable — but not endangered.
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The plan, dubbed the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), is meant in part to ease the permitting process for renewable energy projects, while balancing them with conservation and recreation.
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"There had been so much work done to refind this beast," said Craig Macadam, conservation director at the Invertebrate Conservation Trust, more commonly known as Buglife, a charity in Britain.
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The groom received an undergraduate diploma in nature conservation from the Tswane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, where he is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in conservation.
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Wildlife Conservation Society The Wildlife Conservation Society has been around for a long, long time — and it's still leading the charge when it comes to preservation on a global scale.
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"This is the most southerly recording of a beluga in the UK," Lucy Babey, head of science and conservation at marine conservation charity Orca, was quoted as saying in the BBC.
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"A big take home is that mitigation isn't always what it seems to be," Robert Fleischer, head of the Center for Conservation Genomics at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, told Gizmodo.
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These measures were addressed in a ongoing lawsuit filed in September by environmental law firm Ecojustice, on behalf of Raincoast Conservation and five other conservation groups, against the Canadian federal government.
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A host of green groups and conservation organizations are asking President Obama to back away from his plan to delay federal revenue sharing for coastline conservation work in his 2017 budget.
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"Funny that the League of Conservation Voters clearly forgot the praise and endorsements they gave Rob Portman for his bipartisan efforts on conservation through the years," Portman spokeswoman Michawn Rich said.
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This is why Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization that I work for, tailors snow leopard conservation projects by site with emphasis on the needs and desires of local people.
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Although the International Union for the Conservation of Nature downgraded the giant panda's status to "vulnerable" from "endangered" in September, the species still relies heavily on conservation programs, the zoo said.
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One species is also considered near threatened, according to BirdLife International, a bird conservation organization, which is the Red List authority for birds for the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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Lawyers for conservation and animal-protection groups say that allowing endangered animals to be hunted undermines the Endangered Species Act, and that the ranches' financial contributions fail to benefit wildlife conservation.
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You can support the Kuruwitu Conservation & Welfare Association in eastern Kenya by going go on their expeditions , organized with Oceans Alive , to learn about their approach to community led marine conservation.
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Whit Fosburgh is the President and CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a coalition of 60 conservation groups working together to guarantee all Americans quality places to hunt and fish.
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The FWS is proposing a conservation strategy that would allow the Defense Department to earn conservation credits to offset the negative impact military bases and operations have on gopher tortoise habitats.
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Other southern African nations allow big game hunting under license, and proponents of regulated hunting argue it can help conservation efforts by channeling money to local communities and further conservation efforts.
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