"It is much more useful and informative to do one comprehensive natural-history study rather than numerous smaller efforts, and we encourage people to either pool their efforts or, even better, collaborate on one larger project, " says Sandy Walsh, an FDA spokeswoman.

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Durrell's Head of Conservation Science Dr Richard Young has been at the forefront of the study and subsequent efforts to conserve these creatures.

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Previous projects have included everything from workshops on designing and building less-polluting cookstoves to efforts to build and repair schools and roads to a two-year survey by scientists to study and map the Mekong.

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Organizers of the current study plan to expand their efforts to Irish communities in Boston and New York.

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His early training as an icon painter in Greece, his subsequent study in Renaissance Venice and Rome, and his efforts, after arriving in Spain in 1577, to attract prominent patrons, all figure in El Greco's canvas, where both Eastern and Western traditions combine to transform his memorial into a cogent contemporary parable.

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In a rejection of the usual case study methodology, participants focus their efforts on the challenges they and their peers face in the day-to-day workplace, and apply the solutions they have developed with classmates as soon as every learning session comes to an end.

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