"Large carnivores elicit strong emotions and their management is more socio-political than biological, " said Alistair Bath, a specialist on the human dimensions in wildlife management and a consultant to the conservation organization.
"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.
With wolves beginning to return to old haunts in France, Switzerland and Germany, and continued human-animal conflict involving wolverine, lynx and brown bear in other areas, the need to secure public support for carnivores is urgent, said the conservation organization.
The elephant population in central Africa, where the worst of the killing is believed to be taking place, has dropped significantly over the past 10 years, according to estimates cited by Bas Huijbregts, head of field programs for the conservation organization WWF in the Congo Basin region.
Ford entered the social gaming space this year with developer Talkie and his favorite organization, Conservation International.
"If you have bats roosting in your building, you can't disturb them in any way without getting a special license, " says Kelly Gunnell, Built Environment Officer with the Bat Conservation Trust, a charitable organization in London, England.
Some of the most influential names in business, music and ocean conservation have banded together to form a new nonprofit organization called OceanElders.
That's because the domestic fleets were hewing to quotas mandated by the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, a global economic treaty organization (a sort of NATO for fish).
The organization also works to educate the public about turtle conservation.
It says that any nongovernmental organization, or individual, is empowered to uphold international conservation law.
His organization often collaborates with other groups, including the NOAA and the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit conservation group.
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