If confirmed as secretary of the interior, I intend to make the conservation of America's natural resources my top priority.
But commercial fishermen say the implementation of a quota-based protection system in 2010 made the conservation areas obsolete, and called on the New England Fishery Management Council, the regulating body, to renew access to the waters.
But in answer to those who have said her priority would be on oil drilling and logging on public lands, she also said that if confirmed by the Senate, "I intend to make the conservation of America's natural treasures my top priority".
Because they are designed to be relevant to human needs, biosphere reserves have helped make the conservation of biological diversity more scientific, more systematic, and more socially and economically acceptable to human populations.
Second, in forests where selective logging of highly-prized species has already occurred, engaging in long-term conservation of forest (and hence thwarting conversion to agriculture) may make the conservation of biodiverse landscapes more feasible, and their management more cost-effective.
In conclusion, to make the conservation management more effective it is not enough to identify and quantify the major landscape transformations and the underlying causes, but rather to detect the capability of new landscape patterns, in terms of configuration and composition, to sustain ecosystem services.
In four of the major cities in China studied, better water treatment strategies could make the conservation practices cost-neutral.
Sireviruses share highly similar versions of a novel RM, which in conjunction to the exceptional high copy number and flanking sequence divergence, make the conservation remarkable.
The former means greater environmental risk, possibly making the early conservation efforts in vain, while the latter means enduring greater pain in economy in the short term.
Around Mara, households making the most from conservation revenues were also those investing most in commercial cultivation in ways not compatible with sustainable conservation (Thompson et al. 2002).
