This desert is far from worthless: Catellus is in talks to sell half to a conservation group.
Red kites in Oxfordshire are laying their eggs "unusually late" due to the unseasonably cold weather in March, a conservation group said.
Until a few years ago, assessing the amount of plant matter in a forest in a cheap and accurate manner seemed an insurmountable problem, according to Eric Dinerstein, chief scientist of the World Wide Fund for Nature, a conservation group that is also involved in the Nepalese lidar project.
His organization often collaborates with other groups, including the NOAA and the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit conservation group.
In 1991, he joined the journal "Wild Earth, " and he helped co-found the Wildlands Network, a nonprofit conservation group based in Titusville, Florida.
And since 1937, Ducks Unlimited, a hunting conservation group, has protected 60 million acres of wetlands critical habitat for ducks and 900 other wildlife species.
"We are proud of this new discovery as it has added another endemic species in Indonesia, " said Yoppy Hidayanto, coordinator of Burung Indonesia, a bird conservation group in Bogor, West Java.
"Hopefully it will remain that way, " said Alexander Gaeashelishvili, who works for a nonprofit wildlife conservation group.
Rivers in Alaska, California and the South are among the 10 most endangered, according to a report released Tuesday by American Rivers, a leading river conservation group.
In a study published last year in Conservation Letters, a group of scientists led by Brian MacKenzie, of the Technical University of Denmark, describe how they ran a computer model of the bluefin tuna's population dynamics.
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In 2009 the herring gull was added to the Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern, which is drawn up by a group of charities and conservation organisations.
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Peter Barclay of the Gatwick Area Conservation Group said a second runway would mean significant extra noise for 20, 000 people.
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For the last six years, Devon Birds, a group dedicated to the conservation of birds, has been compiling data on bird sightings in the county.
"This is the first good decision we've seen from Shell, " said Mike le Vine of Oceana, a group which focuses on ocean conservation.
Stewart Taylor, a wildlife consultant for the Badenoch and Strathspey Conservation Group, said the proposed site offered foraging opportunities to wildcats.
The hero, one Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman), is the head of an open-spaces conservation group, and he makes a deal with a rising young executive (Jude Law) at Huckabees, a superstore chain, to preserve some woods.
All visitors must be on a group tour to enter the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, which means that only a few visitors make it as far as the town of Taplejung, the last point of civilization (which itself is gradually recovering from a deadly and destructive earthquake that hit in September 2011).
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.
His latest venture announced on Saturday is a partnership between his Yao Foundation and Rare, a U.S.-based non-profit group that promotes conservation.
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Matt Rand, director of Global Shark Conservation for the Pew Environment Group said that this was the latest of a number of studies "confirming the importance of preserving the parts of the ocean where sharks breed and raise their pups".
He plans to keep 95% of Silver Bow undeveloped and is negotiating to donate conservation easements to groups such as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a pro-hunting group, and the Montana Land Reliance, a land trust.
Sumatran tigers are a critically endangered subspecies from Indonesia, of which fewer than 400 remain, according to the conservation group WWF.
Conservation campaign group Oceana said ministers had made "progress" but had "delivered a compromise that does not match the ambition of the parliament and is not enough to restore stocks".
The Gatwick Area Conservation Group said hundreds of thousands of people across Surrey, Sussex and Kent would oppose a second runway.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is taking an interest in ITPA because it sees the group as a living example of the green economy in action.
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