From a policy perspective, the results are incredibly important because they indicate a win-win-win--food, profit, conservation--scenario from closing the high seas; further, even though the main study focus was on the profitability of fisheries, this policy would represent possibly the largest conservation benefit ever enacted in the world's oceans".
In 2005, the non-profit conservation group American Prairie Reserve (APR) reintroduced 16 of the stately beasts to the landscape.
It was established by Bush Heritage Australia – a not-for-profit conservation group that owns and manages private reserves throughout the country to protect native plants and animals.
"Structures like this provide the opportunity to put some habitat in urban waterways," says John Quail, director of watershed planning for the Friends of the Chicago River, a non-profit conservation group.
The trust, along with another not-for-profit conservation group, the Open Space Institute, arranged the deal between the state and a private family that owned the completely undeveloped property that juts into the 11,000-acre park.
In fiscal 2011 its agencies spent $13 billion more than they collected for use of land and resources a deficit that critics want to see closed through better management or land sales.One possibility, other than selling to individuals or developers, would be to sell to non-profit conservation trusts.
The deal for the state's acquisition of the Mount Loretto property on Hylan Boulevard, established as a the site of a residence for homeless and disabled children in the 1880's, was negotiated through the Trust for Public Land, a not-for-profit conservation organization.
This allure is clearly going unnoticed by the current US Congress, whose past two terms has been marked by exceptionally little movement on public land protections, according to the Wilderness Society, a non-profit conservation group whose former leader, Howard Zahniser, authored the original version of the 1964 act.
First, we interviewed five locally-based, Midwestern non-profit conservation groups that were accomplishing significant river conservation and management work without intricate ecological plans.
Nevertheless, for facilities like zoos, animal parks, government facilities and non-profit conservation groups, the protection of valuable and endangered species from infectious disease is a growing concern.
