Sentence examples for contemporary conservation from inspiring English sources

Paradoxically this insistence on authenticity is also the impulse driving contemporary conservation.

"All information necessary for the contemporary conservation and management of whales can be obtained non-lethally".

A spokesman for Greg Hunt, the environment minister, said Australia "remains opposed to all forms of commercial whaling and believes that all information necessary for the contemporary conservation and management of whales can be obtained using non-lethal methods.

With the growing appreciation of environmental values and ecological services provided by grazing landscapes, the engagement of pastoral landholders is now central to contemporary conservation efforts.

Building on contemporary conservation policy, our asset framework provides an innovative approach to the development and management of PAs in the 21st Century.

Based on a review of relevant literature we focus on five focal areas of importance to contemporary conservation: policy, practice, collaboration, leadership and interdisciplinarity.

Interest in religion and indigenous culture fulfils contemporary conservations goals of grassroots participation and socio-cultural legitimacy, but the complexities described here indicate that a nexus between local culture and modern conservation may be elusive.

Despite its relevance to contemporary biodiversity conservation, the ecological mechanisms controlling nonrandom species replacements and biotic homogenization of native biotas remain poorly understood.

We argue that doing so makes it possible to understand not only what is 'new' about contemporary market-oriented conservation but also its continuities with earlier forms of command and control conservation.

This version of the problem has dogged dualism since the scientific revolution (Lowe 1992; Papineau 2000), and a number of contemporary philosophers present conservation as a major obstacle for dualists (explicitly in, e.g., Fodor 1981; Dennett 1991, p. 35; implicitly in Levine 2001, p. 5; Heil 2004, p. 23).

Whereas prior studies of contemporary evolution in conservation contexts have tended to emphasize modest but persistent disturbance and directional trait change (Visser 2008; Darimont et al. 2009), such conditions are not prerequisite for eco-evolutionary conservation concerns.