Sentence examples for waterfowl conservation from inspiring English sources

According to Craig Kessler, 61, of Stony Brook, the former regional director of Ducks Unlimited, a national organization founded by duck hunters that focuses on wetlands and waterfowl conservation, hunting is "very much a part of the fabric of Long Island".

A wetland creation project for rare waterfowl conservation in China Yancheng Biosphere Reserve was chosen as a demonstration, designed totally according to the principles of ecological succession and allowed to self-design free of interference from human activities.

The refuges are critically important to the conservation of Western waterfowl.

Waterfowl expert John M. Coluccy, director of conservation planning for Ducks Unlimited Inc., was kind enough to provide an answer: The females are on their nests, says Coluccy.

Against an uncertain future, state wildlife agencies and conservation groups that cultivate waterfowl populations are re-examining some longstanding conservation approaches and questioning whether business as usual needs to change.

"I knew there would be a lot of passionate defenders of swans, but we can't base our management policies just on the aesthetics of a bird when it has such negative impacts," said Bryan Swift, the conservation agency's statewide waterfowl specialist, told the New York Times.

The organization has written or published over a dozen books on heritage livestock breeds, including several on heritage poultry and waterfowl and more on general livestock conservation.

On the positive side, he asserts that the Canadian-American North American Waterfowl Management Plan of 1986 "put habitat conservation into high gear," and adds that Ducks Unlimited, a highly respected and influential private conservation organization created in 1936, was the driving force behind the plan's conception, implementation and expansion.

The highest densities were observed over grasslands and wetlands, including nature conservation sites, where thousands of waterfowl rest and feed.

Our results suggest that landscape setting may be influencing the distribution of wintering waterfowl, and should be considered when developing strategies for the conservation for these species in urban North Atlantic estuaries.

Craig Kessler of Stony Brook is a conservation manager for Ducks Unlimited and has been hunting waterfowl on Long Island for 48 years.