It's a small project but the emphasis is utmost on water conservation - environmental sustainable living.
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The hab its of conservation-minded Germans contrasted with the wasteful, throwaway culture she knew.
It links their allocation of time at sea with conservation-friendly measures in much the same way as Scotland's Conservation Credits Scheme.
They have a strong emphasis on forest conservation - while settlers can cultivate their own individual plots, they cannot sell them.
There may even be an entirely new species of web-footed crocodile, according to a hunter-turned-conservation-officer employed by the group Cat Action Treasury.
But now, many of the paintings are in urgent need of conservation -- some damaged by fire and flooding, others from modern repainting and cleaning.
To conservation-minded home or business owners, the turbines are an investment in clean energy and one way to ease America's dependence on foreign oil.
"Some of the responses are alarmist, " says Geoff Harris, who is overseeing the "conservation-led approach" to the Smithfield project as director of property development at Henderson.
Bill Harriman, director of firearms for the British Association for Shooting and Conservation - Britain's largest shooting organisation - said that while there should never be complacency about firearms, the figures needed to be put into perspective.
John Ratcliffe of the Countryside Council for Wales - also partners in the squirrel conservation project - said half measures were not possible and it wanted to return more of the area to dunes.
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One response to this problem has been to focus conservation brand-making on species that need greater attention.
Robert Rakoff, a professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, has studied land-trust conservation in the north-east.
The power of communication emphasized by these exchanges has since acted as an inspiration for Kahumbu's latest conservation project --- the creation of recorded oral history of Kenya's biodiversity.
During the past three years, USDA's conservation agencies, the U.S. Forest Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Farm Service Agency, have worked with more than half a million farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to enroll record acres in conservation programs, have targeted conservation dollars to locally-driven conservation initiatives and have worked to increase conservation and restoration activities on the 193 million acre National Forest system.
Dr. William W. Fox, Jr. is currently Vice President of Fisheries at World Wildlife Fund, a non-profit charity dedicated to global conservation through science-based solutions.
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The World Wildlife Fund - hosting a conference on rhino conservation in London - said the number of rhinos in Asia is also beginning to improve.
Dr. Daniel Ramp at the University of Technology, Sydney (Australia), where a centre for Compassionate Conservation is being established, notes, by placing compassion alongside conservation, decision-making that results in poor animal welfare and conservation outcomes should become more transparent and avoidable and this will be a great aid to wildlife management.
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Dr Narayan and his team of wildlife experts have achieved their success with support from the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT), a Jersey-based conservation organisation started by naturalist Gerald Durrell.
There is also a long-term conservation project which has attracted the support of some up-market benefactors in London, Geneva and New York, who set up the Saint Catherine Foundation.
Ms Gallmann's animal-conservation crusade grew out of the terrible events that befell her family.
The plan includes criteria for farming, tourism, archaeological research, conservation and forward-thinking management.
They also demanded stricter water-conservation rules and tried to issue bonds to pay for building and maintaining infrastructure.
He runs outdoor camps for asthmatics and a rainwater-conservation project in the state of Rajasthan, along the western border.
"This is an alarming situation, " said Dipankar Ghose, a New Delhi-based rhino-conservation expert at the World Wide Fund for Nature.
This Congress did it all in one bill, and also enacted other big measures, such as an expansion of children's health insurance and a broad land-conservation law.
Vale also highlights its support for an extensive monitoring operation in the forest run by the Brazilian Government's conservation agency ICMBio - so we checked with the agency to get their perspective.
Proceeds from the sale, if allowed, would go into a special pot to help finance conservation, anti-poaching and, at least in theory, rural development for local people, most of whom regard elephants as a destructive nuisance.
Water experts applaud the new policy, saying it puts a proper emphasis on conservation: lower-basin states must now pay attention to the water they have, instead of plotting to get still more from the upper-basin states.
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Held in conjunction with the UNESCO Office in Doha, the trip was aimed at raising awareness of the students, with the focus on basic mangrove ecology, the importance of ecosystems for biodiversity conservation, re-creation, and carbon sequestration.
The author of the Handbook, international expert on conservation of paper-based documents, Mr. Antonio Mirabile (Italy) introduced the publication to the invited specialists from Tashkent Islamic Institute, National Library of Uzbekistan, Museum of History, Institute of Oriental Studies, media and public.
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