Sentence examples for wetlands conservancy from inspiring English sources

Bloomberg.com, which first reported the acquisition, said Shopoff is committing $500 million on new development for the site and has met with the Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy about the project.

In this film Rob Shore, head of Wetland Conservation at the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust, Michael Becker, conservation director at WWF-Brazil, environmental economist Pavan Sukhdev, and lead scientist with The Nature Conservancy Dr M Sanjayan reveal the richness of life supported by the Pantanal but also the contribution this great wetland makes to the life of people living far beyond its limits.

Establish any problematic wetland or conservation issues.

With a unique background as a wetland scientist, greenway specialist and college professor, Francesca leads The Nature Conservancy's urban conservation program in Birmingham.

Susan Antenen, the director of coastal conservation for the Nature Conservancy on Long Island, said the project "would have set a precedent that would be ecologically damaging to the beaches, wetlands and Great South Bay, and it was expected to encourage new development on the oceanfront".

That is in part because of the nearly 400 acres of wetlands and forests owned by the Eagles Mere Conservancy that are off-limits to developers.

The D.E.P. and the conservancy are collaborating on a wetlands restoration project at Lords Cove in Lyme to eradicate the phragmites growing on 200 of the cove's 1,100 acres and expanding at a rate of 30 acres a year.

Sirikoi tented camp, in the middle of the conservancy, was built in a wetlands area, and animals casually strolled by on their way to a nearby watering hole.

And "the development that was intended would have actually threatened some of the great wetland restoration we've done on the Disney Wilderness Preserve," said Doria Gordon, director of conservation science at the Nature Conservancy's Florida office.

"It's like a big sponge, soaking up and releasing an enormous amount of water, feeding a huge system of rivers, streams and wetlands," said Henry Tepper, state director of the Nature Conservancy in New York.

In Cooperstown, N.Y., Earle Petersen created the Greenwood Conservancy and, with government support, restored two wetlands on what had once been an abandoned dairy farm.