She's been a champion of the Land and Water Conservation Fund and so many other conservation issues of our time.
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Through its Worldwide Conservation Fund, Disney has also supported CI-led species conservation efforts affecting one million hectares in Colombia and Brazil.
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The backstory: since the 1970s the Land and Water Conservation Fund (which, only semi-ironically, gets its money from federal royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling) has given money to local governments for parks.
Chris offers holidaymakers the chance to track rhino while the revenue from tourism helps fund conservation work.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the energy and brains of many of these brilliant hotspot scientists might be put to better use if they looked at the really difficult problem of how governments, private industry and innovative environmental-finance schemes could help fund conservation.
All the proceeds will directly fund global conservation projects to create sanctuaries and protect natural habitats to save endangered species from extinction.
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"This is an alarming situation, " said Dipankar Ghose, a New Delhi-based rhino-conservation expert at the World Wide Fund for Nature.
Indeed, the World Wildlife Fund, a nature conservation organisation, reckons that bluefin spawners will be virtually eliminated by 2012.
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Wreck to Reef has approached Southern Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) to fund the project, near Ringstead Bay, for three years from 2014.
Carter Roberts, chief conservation officer for the World Wildlife Fund, said that the strain on natural resources threatens environmental progress as the world strives to match America's prosperity.
The grant will fund part of a wider conservation project at the site, to restore the original stonework, and extensive repairs to the roof, stage and seating platforms.
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.
In its decision, the 21-member Committee responsible for implementing the World Heritage Convention, called on the Director-General of UNESCO to create a special fund to help Mali in the conservation of its cultural heritage.
The World Wildlife Fund - hosting a conference on rhino conservation in London - said the number of rhinos in Asia is also beginning to improve.
There are allegations from conservation groups that the Maoists used illegal wildlife products to fund the insurgency, an allegation the former rebels reject.
He served as President of the World Wildlife Fund from 1985 to 1989 and President of the Conservation Foundation from 1973 to 1989.
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"Rivers, streams and lakes are measurably cleaner than they were before the Clean Water Act, but we still have a long way to go, " said Bob Irvin of the World Wildlife Fund, the world's largest privately funded conservation organization.
Money from the maintenance fund will provide a vital source of income for future conservation work on the site.
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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Late last month, India's Ministry of Environment told the World Wide Fund for Nature to close the regional office that runs its Tiger Conservation Program.
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