[Reuters] Ghostly sculptures off the coast of Cancún, Mexico serve as a tourist attraction and what the artist describes as a conservation effort intended to draw divers and snorkelers away from the Mesoamerican Reef.
This high level of conservation enabled us to draw the first comprehensive map for a sizeable part of the gene space of the Pinaceae (Additional file 11).
(Crandall et al. 2000, Italics added) This is a striking accusation, implying that conservation geneticists tend to draw the same conclusion regardless of what their research findings suggest.
In such situations, two important options for conservation scientists include: (1) to draw on insights from analogous ecosystems where the organism is extant, or where it has been successfully reintroduced and (2) to undertake research into the reintroduction in the location of interest under controlled experimental conditions.
Each of these themes is discussed below, highlighting distinct aspects of each theme, including different strategies taken by different conservation sites, and trying to draw out lessons that might apply for adaptation in general.
India's Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the ban on tourism in the core areas of the country's tiger reserves and asked state governments to draw up conservation plans that follow the guidelines prepared by the National Tiger Conservation Authority.
My job was to make an inventory of the larger mammals in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park and, using these data, to draw up conservation strategies.
Pathway variation has been extensively studied in actinomycetes at the genomic level, although in general too many changes in gene content, conservation, and order are present to draw the conclusions apparent from this study [35].
In November 2008, it was announced that the building managers had appointed local architects firm Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams to draw up a conservation plan to preserve the building.
The institute is working with government agencies, the private sector and other interest groups to draw up a cycad conservation strategy that should be finalised by early next year.
