Sentence examples for productive conservation from inspiring English sources

The enterprise is one of many ventures here in the Amazon aimed at "productive conservation," which advocates say will save the rain forest by transforming it into a renewable economic resource for local people — just as some eco-tourism lodges and other ventures in places like Africa and Southeast Asia have tried to do.

Our results indicated that large-scale restoration of agricultural lands to native grassland and forest habitats may be the most productive conservation action for increasing bird population sizes but the level of landscape transition required to approach target bird population sizes may be societally unacceptable.

The policy implications of our findings are discussed, especially with regard to the role of smallholders in productive forest conservation.

"It made me realise that here I am trying to encourage people to adopt best management practice – whether it's productive agriculture or conservation – but if we don't work on the social capacity of these businesses we can't ever achieve sustained practice change.

Kaziranga has the world's highest concentration of these three creatures, thanks to its incredibly productive grasslands and conservation measures.

Ecological and Economic Zoning (EEZ) is a Land Use Planning (LUP) methodology that aims at defining separate areas for productive uses and conservation.

If a cloned mammoth would cause the extinction of another species, then cloning mammoths would be unethical and counter-productive for species conservation.

However, present political, social, and economic structures in most of the coastal regions around the world are disconnected from the actual functioning of the natural environment in which they reside, hindering conservation of productive wetland ecosystems.

Our study demonstrates the necessity to elucidate species-specific habitat relationships, and suggests bats would benefit from the conservation of productive suburban bushland remnants and riparian habitats, while improving connectivity to these areas via the maintenance of tree cover across the matrix.

This decision puts the United States in a much stronger position to play a productive role in the conservation of lions, who have suffered a 60percentt population decline across much of Africa and now number fewer than 30,000 due to habitat loss and human-caused killing.

The workshop also led to a productive interaction between researchers, conservation agencies, and oil companies, which established links for international collaboration and future partnerships within the Census umbrella.