"Here's a species that's literally on the brink of extinction," said Jim Leape, director general of conservation group WWF.
"This agreement reaffirms the fundamental need to conserve nature as the very foundation of our economy and our society," said Jim Leape, director general of the conservation group WWF International.
We have seen the devastating impact of this crime in too many countries," said Jim Leape, International Director General of international conservation group WWF.
Years of lobbying by conservation groups and the general public contributed to the Labor government announcement in 2012 of 42 marine reserves in Australian waters, including over the entire Coral Sea.
The alliance is backed by the political clout of the Connecticut attorney general's office and the Department of Environmental Protection, as well as such respected conservation groups as the Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society, all of which are working to purchase the property.
Unlike the general conservation in gene order in most other metazoan groups, most molluscan mt genomes reported so far contain considerable rearrangements especially in Bivalvia and Scaphopoda [ 10].
In contrast to the examples of increased levels of mitochondrial sequence divergence, there are several groups that consistently show an unusually low level of divergence, even in the context of the general conservation expected for plants (Figs. 1, 2, 3).
Conservation groups concur.
Conservation groups, naturally, are delighted.
Some conservation groups oppose the plant.
