High commodity prices often exceed payments from conservation programs to keep sensitive land out of production, which can render conservation a difficult economic decision.
He has struck deals with private landowners and conservation groups to keep hundreds of thousands of acres undeveloped.
Focussing on conservation helps to keep our tuition at the low, low cost of fifty thousand dollars per year, not to mention that it's cool.
Mr. Rath's approach to conservation sought to keep historic sites integrated in the life of local communities by encouraging commercial activity, rather than having the two isolated from each other as at Williamsburg, for example.
His project, in short, is a conservation effort to keep the species alive, if only in captivity.None of that pleases animal activists and conservationists, especially in West Africa.
But the trust, which specializes in such conservation easements, intends to keep the plot essentially the way it is now in perpetuity, Matthew Shaffer, a trust spokesman, confirmed.
The areas that have been destroyed the most will never regain their original forms, but conservation will help to keep them from getting worse.
The formula widely agreed upon by conservation scientists is to keep half the land and half the sea of the planet as wild and protected from human intervention or activity as possible.
Preservationists often peel a building back to its original incarnation, but the university, in collaboration with Italian conservation experts, decided to keep the villa as it was when the Actons lived in it, a period no less historic for being the most recent.
This autumn Congress will decide how much to expand conservation programs and whether to keep the swampbusters protection in tact.
