The current governor, James McGreevey, tilted the leadership of the state agency that oversees zoning in the Meadowlands toward conservation and away from development.
The Bush administration has promoted a shift in farm policy toward trade and conservation and away from strong dependence on commodity payments.
Some experts on Pacific salmon argue for diverting conservation resources away from areas where water temperatures are forecast to become too warm for survival.
This will require a shift in conservation priorities away from large, intact remnants where regeneration does not appear to be affected, to poorer quality remnants—often small remnants or scattered trees where regeneration is typically absent.
The deal also typifies a trend in wilderness preservation in the last few years, with states and conservation groups moving away from buying tracts outright.
A network approach could help conservation strategies move away from the fixed width buffer model, which results in a more fragmented landscape, and toward a landscape with contiguous forests and wetlands that could benefit multiple migratory species (Baldwin et al. 2006).
Instead of following Rai's proposals, the World Bank rewrote the plan for the forest conservation project, backing away from key language that committed Kenya's government to help the Sengwer obtain formal titles to the land they had long occupied.
Manipulating the timing and intensity of grazing throughout spring is also an alternative management tool for grassland bird conservation that does away with recommendations based on late grazing or grazing exclusion (Durant et al., 2008).
The strategy under Energy by Design (EbyD; [16]) is to improve approaches to the mitigation hierarchy (Avoid, Minimize, Restore, Offset,), steer planned developments away from conservation priorities, ensure compensatory mitigation projects deliver a higher return for conservation, and mobilize funding for conservation.
Instead, nationwide, two out of three farmers who apply for conservation programs are turned away because of a lack of money.
