The refuge was launched with a donation of just 10 acres of land from the US-based Nature Conservancy, but could eventually grow to more than 150, 000 acres, connecting with conservation land near Naples, 175 miles to the southwest, and on through to the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park that extends to the southern tip of the peninsula.
Tejon won the crucial backing of environmentalists in May 2008, when it agreed to put its 240, 000 undevelopable acres into a conservation land trust. (Tejon has retained the right to ranch, farm and prospect for oil on these lands and even sell large chunks, most likely to the environmentalists.) Full approval would enable Tejon to put up 26, 000 homes on the 30, 000 acres not included in the deal.
Millions of acres of Conservation Reserve Land bloomed, supplying a healthy mix of blossoms to thousands of honeybee colonies.
The publication includes nine papers explore the various aspects of local and traditional knowledge and its relation to nature conservation, land management and natural resource management, and industry.
In the years since, private timber companies have found it increasingly attractive to sell their land for conservation easements rather than chase the harvest or sell the land for private development.
He has ushered in a new era of conservation for our land, our water and our wildlife.
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These billionaires operate on a wide spectrum when it comes to land conservation.
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He said the new measurement would mean "new obligations" for the park authority from a land conservation and management perspective.
The event aims to identify key synergies across different policy agendas which relate to wild land conservation and restoration and identify associated future opportunities for wild landscapes.
"This is a solution that was invented by somebody in the community, " explains Paula Kahumbu, executive director of the Kenya Land Conservation Trust and chairman of the Friends of Nairobi National Park.
MONTREAL(Kitco News) - Draft legislation to conserve and sustain 50% of the Plan Nord territory in Northern Quebec was unveiled by Quebec Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks Pierre Arcand On Friday, making it the largest land conservation project in history.
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He said most of South Africa's land put aside for animal conservation was fenced and surrounded by land developed by people and elephant overcrowding was now a risk.
Plains promised to end all of its operations in the county within 14 years and to donate thousands of acres of land to conservation.
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.
Daily was about to depart for China, where the government is using software she developed with others to help with its goal to zone 25% of the land for conservation purposes.
Robert Rakoff, a professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, has studied land-trust conservation in the north-east.
In February 2011, the High Court in London overturned Cardiff council's decision to designate the land for nature conservation.
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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Ecological studies on the restoration of degraded forest land, the conservation of medicinal plants and their sustainable harvesting are being conducted at Achanakmar-Amarkantak.
Land-owning conservation groups and government agencies are meeting on Tuesday in a move which could see parts of the countryside re-opened for public access.
The goal was to convene a meeting of high level experts in transboundary cooperation, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of land and water resources.
Today, Kunene has the largest number of free-roaming black rhino in the world -- the only rhino worldwide living on communally- and traditionally-owned land without formal conservation status.
Not one real is allocated for deforestation but there are six programmes for environmental conservation, zoning, monitoring land use and recuperation of degraded areas, intensifying their use where appropriate.
This allows producers in these areas to apply for low-interest loans from the government, and opens up land in the conservation reserve programme for use for grazing and hay production.
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.
And though easements created by private individuals are generally not open to the public, they do serve the conservation purpose of keeping the land pristine and open and undisturbed for watersheds and critical flora and fauna.
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Biosphere reserves are models that have been seeking to resolve conflicts in land use and biodiversity conservation, thus creating opportunities for education, entertainment and tourism, and international collaboration in conserving the biosphere, our common house.
As outright land purchases have decreased, conservation is increasingly becoming an easement business.
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So the state's Independent governor, Angus King, came up with a sensible suggestion: Cut hay from land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the unaffected counties, and send it south, where it is immediately needed.
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