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A stone cottage designed by President Roosevelt for his retirement was bought in 1996 by the Open Space Institute, a land conservation group, for $750,000.

Japan's whaling ships have returned from the Southern Ocean with their smallest catch in years, prompting the fleet's leader to blame harassment by the Sea Shepherd marine conservation group for the shortfall.

The Sahafina Forest had not been studied until 2008 and 2009, when Groupe d'Étude et de Recherche sur les Primates de Madagascar (GERP a Malagasy-based research and conservation group for which the lemur is named—inventoried the forest's lemurs.

It has also pleased most conservation groups for whom the demolition of the former Bankside power station was long unthinkable.

The department's stance suggests that other parties – journalists or conservation groups, for example – would be subject to the newly introduced redactions if they requested the same documents.

After doing freelance work for government and conservation groups for 35 years, Mr. Jenkins joined the staff of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Adirondack program in 2005.

Instead, despite pleas from environmental and conservation groups for preservation of a fragile sector called the Grandifolia Sandhills, the owners are proceeding with plans to build a golf course and have bulldozed portions of the sand hills.

He noted that the foundation, which once owned 100,000 acres in Florida, had donated or sold some 30,000 acres to local governments or conservation groups for parks, preserves and water management.

McKee reminded me that Thomson was widely praised by conservation groups for its brand of ethical tourism; indeed, earlier this year it was named by National Geographic as one of the top 10 "Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth".

Packham said he would not be intimidated by the Countryside Alliance, which called on the BBC to sack him after he criticised leading conservation groups for sitting on the fence over foxhunting, badger culling and the plight of hen harriers.

The energy bill has come under criticism from some lawmakers and conservation groups for doing too little to cut into the nation's dependence on foreign oil while increasing oil and gas production.