It also could slow the development of wind power, a resource cherished by conservationists.
Ms. Leone has tried to develop the center as a sanctuary for wildlife, a breeding center for zoos and an educational resource for future conservationists.
Though he praised it for being useful to tourists, researchers, students, resource managers, and conservationists, he expressed concern over its lack of availability in the bookstores of Madagascar.
Government delegates here are considering adopting a new set of targets for 2020 that aim to tackle the causes of biodiversity loss - the expansion of agriculture, pollution, climate change, the spread of alien invasive species, the increasing use of natural resources - which conservationists believe might be a more effective option than setting targets on nature itself.
How can such conservation priors be decided upon, what are the data needed and what are the tools at hand to guide conservationists to optimal resource allocations?
However, because land protection decisions are long term, resource intensive, and difficult to reverse, conservationists need a robust model for identifying reserve networks that is neither rendered obsolete by a changing climate, nor constantly in flux.
Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club (1892), a conservationist group concerned with the preservation of the scenic resources of the Sierra Nevada and like areas of the United States, dedicated his book to members of the club in 1911.
This has made Oklahoma an unlikely leader in the booming business of energy efficiency.Some conservationists have long argued that energy efficiency is a "resource" which should be used as an alternative to hydrocarbons, nuclear power and renewables.
March 15 , 1801Woodstock, Vermont July 23 , 1882Vallombrosa, Italy George Perkins Marsh, (born March 15 , 1801 Woodstock, Vt., U.S. died July 23 , 1882 Vallombrosa, Italy) U.S. diplomat, scholar, and conservationist whose greatest work, Man and Nature (1864), was one of the most significant advances in geography, ecology, and resource management of the 19th century.
The conservationist was right.
