If Robert Hanna and President Obama were to meet in Yosemite this weekend, I know our friend would be happy to deliver our Next100 Coalition's request to President Obama, asking him to issue a Presidential Proclamation and a concerted conservation vision on the Centennial Anniversary of the Park Service.
He has worked or lived in over 60 countries, implementing WILD's global conservation vision of Nature Needs Half™ while connecting between the headquarters in Colorado (USA) with WILD projects and partner organizations throughout North America and overseas including as International Director for the World Wilderness Congress.
This conservation vision requires a sophisticated knowledge of how biodiversity is organized across different spatial scales [35].
Once so effective in providing sustained-yield conservation values, visions and models for the Western worlds' transition to an industrial society, it is time again for foresters (plus many other types of forest managers and users) to re-think the role of rural economies and their forest ecosystems in the urban, post-industrial, global societies of North America and Europe.
Ocular treatment of uveal melanoma is termed 'radical' if it consists of enucleation (i.e., ocular amputation) and 'conservative' if conservation of useful vision and the eye is attempted (Damato, 2006).
And the Detroit People's Water Board, a broad coalition co-founded by Charity Hicks, continues its work of raising consciousness about water justice and conservation, setting out a vision for water as a public trust, not a commodity – a source of life, not of private enrichment.
In addition to stipulated energy expenditure and economy tariff vision, energy conservation and a building efficiency policy should be considered for PV.
I hear arguments that private management of farmed elephants, rhinos and lions constitutes an acceptable vision of conservation.
However, even today, because our area of work in the Tambopata National Reserve is mainly occupied by tourism entrepreneurs, researchers, conservationists and local and indigenous communities that share a vision of conservation, mining is not directly impacting it.
We are spending so much time pushing back against and resisting bad proposals that I yearn for us to develop a coherent vision of conservation to guide our next 100 years.
We first outlined a vision: of conservation planning applied throughout the Coral Triangle, at spatial scales ranging from local to region-wide, to effectively inform management actions implemented to achieve objectives for biodiversity, fisheries, and food security.
