Sentence examples for conservation optimism from inspiring English sources

This article was amended on 6 October 2016 to correct the location of the 2017 Conservation Optimism Summit.

This week, the Zoological Society of London and Oxford University announced a Conservation Optimism Summit for 2017 in London, culminating in a big Earth Day public celebration focused on the world's youth.

It is a story that will be highlighted at a specially arranged wildlife meeting, the Conservation Optimism Summit, to be held at Dulwich College, London, this month and at sister events in cities around the world, including Cambridge, Washington and Hong Kong.

But working in conservation also requires that optimism not interfere with clear-eyed assessments of reality.

The call for more optimism in conservation is underpinned by psychology: it turns out if something sounds hopeless, or too big to turn around, most people will just shrug their shoulders and go on with their lives.

Part of what makes optimism in conservation so challenging is the global trend of decline in wildlife, but it's also that success stories are often decades, if not generations, in the making.

Optimism and hope in conservation biology are supported by examples of endangered species recovery, such as the population growth observed in humpback whales in several of the world׳s oceans.

As I write this, there is a small but growing movement within conservation to bring back a little optimism, a little hope, a little wonder into what has become a decidedly bleak calling.

Although much of the biodiversity of the mediterranean biome is threatened, the amount of potential conservation land that remains is cause for optimism, presenting opportunities for less formal, yet enduring conservation approaches.

Some of the most extensive areas of intact forest in the country are found in Palawan, where there are reasons for optimism due to the implementation of conservation through devolved local government and civil society groups (Posa et al. 2008).

Such findings provided evidence and optimism that public efforts for endangered species conservation can work.