Efforts have been initiated to protect the property from logging and development.

Efforts are made to protect both species of sea turtles since nests have been declining in recent years due to the severe erosion of the beach.

Efforts to conserve and protect global biodiversity are a recent phenomenon.

Efforts are being made to study and protect these animals.

Efforts to protect and conserve tropical rainforest habitats are diverse and widespread.

* Efforts to protect ecosystems from fire

Efforts to protect Camelback Mountain as a natural preserve began in the early 1910s.

Efforts to further protect the lower valley forests of Alpine Lakes began in the 1950s by the North Cascades Conservation Council formed in 1957 and in October 1968 the Alpine Lakes Protection Society was formed.

Efforts to reactivate the craft were unsuccessful, and it fell back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry on 15 January 2012, reportedly over the Pacific Ocean west of Chile.

Efforts shifted from spraying to the use of bednets impregnated with insecticides and other interventions.

Efforts to trace it from Estonia back to Denmark have, however, been in vain.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

Efforts are made to transport raw materials from the rest of the world and from the mineral-rich west to the Chinese plain.

Efforts to predict tertiary structure from the primary structure are known generally as protein structure prediction.

Efforts toward unification proceeded from 1988.

Efforts to exchange federal land from other areas for inholdings were still in the negotiation phase in 2012.

Efforts were made starting in the 1830s and continuing through the 19th century to detect infrared radiation from other astronomical sources.

Efforts to eradicate a small colony from Tasmania's Lake Crescent without using chemicals have been successful, but the long-term, expensive and intensive undertaking is an example of both the possibility and difficulty of safely removing the species once it is established.

Efforts to raise CHF 6. 2M ($ 7M ), to buy and save the villa of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard from most certain demolition are underway.

Efforts have been made to port Coda onto Microsoft Windows platforms, from the Windows 95 / Windows 98 era, Windows NT to Windows XP, by means of open source projects like the DJGCC DOS C Compiler and Cygwin.

Efforts by Frank Miller, then owner of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, Hiram Johnson and others, succeeded in gaining War Department approval to construct an airfield at Alessandro Field located near Riverside, an airstrip used by aviators from Rockwell Field on cross-country flights from San Diego.

Efforts by the southern communities from the late 18th century to build a number of relatively expensive construction projects along the coastline, such as a new road from Stonington Borough to Mystic and a bridge over Lambert ’ s Cove, at first led residents of the northern end of the town to oppose budgeting monies for these projects, and eventually caused the northerners to secede and form their own town.

Efforts to make the Trinity navigable for steamers continued from 1852 to 1940, when 236 miles of waterway had been completed and Liberty served as an inland port with barge connections to the Houston Ship Channel.

Efforts were made, especially in the Third Plan, to move industry eastward to make it safer from attack during World War II.

Efforts to create cellular directories have met stiff opposition from several fronts, including those who seek to avoid telemarketers.

Efforts were made to reassure the medical community that the laws were both constitutionally sound and specifically exempting physicians from liability.

Efforts are ongoing to eradicate the weevil from the rest of the United States.

* Zimbabwe: Efforts at land reform in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe moved, after 15 years, in the 1990s, from a " willing seller, willing buyer " approach to the " fast track " land reform program.

Efforts by the State Council to institute a fuel tax in order to finance the National Trunk Highway System have run into strong opposition from the National People's Congress, largely out of concern for its impact on farmers.

Efforts should continue to be made in order to prevent disastrous edge effects resulting from fires, climate change, and human impact from commercial hunting and logging.

Efforts such as the Community Development Program in the Philippines have demonstrated that transitional societies can work toward balanced national development.

Efforts to privatize other publicly held enterprises have stalled.

Efforts to exploit tourism potential, encourage offshore banking, and expand the mining and fishing industries have been partially successful in stimulating investment and growth.

Efforts have been made to create internationalized domain names that further extend the English alphabet ( e. g., " pokémon. com ").

Efforts by members of the Vermont Historical Society and other historical groups through the years have followed up on rumored likenesses, only to come up empty.

Efforts to find such evidence have been made since 1960, and several are ongoing.

Efforts to revitalize this important part of the city have been undertaken by the municipal government and have been very successful thus far.

Efforts to alter or abolish the confessional system of allocating power have been at the centre of Lebanese politics for decades.

Efforts to eradicate opium cultivation have pushed many ethnic rebel groups, including the United Wa State Army and the Kokang to diversify into methamphetamine production.

Efforts to have pankration as a demonstration sport in the 2004 Olympics in Athens were unsuccessful.

Efforts to strengthen the law have met with failure in recent years, but minor reforms seem likely.

Efforts have been made by Chinese entrepreneurs to satisfy increasing demand for turtle meat as gourmet food and traditional medicine with farmed turtles, instead of wild-caught ones ; according to a study published in 2007, over a thousand turtle farms operated in China.

Efforts to psychometrically distinguish between normal and pathological dissociation have been made, but they have not been universally accepted.

Efforts at language revival continue to be undertaken, both inside and outside the Church, and have attracted the interest of both Copts and Muslims in Egypt.

Efforts have been made by the government in recent years to expand food production, and several projects have been undertaken, largely financed by foreign donors.

Efforts to develop a safe and effective syphilis vaccine have been hindered by uncertainty about the relative importance of humoral and cellular mechanisms to protective immunity and the fact that T. pallidum outer membrane proteins have not been unambiguously identified.

Efforts to establish the play's date of composition and genesis have been complicated by its uncertain relationship with another Elizabethan play with an almost identical plot but different wording and character names, A Pleasant Conceited Historie, called the taming of a Shrew, which is often theorised to be a reported text of a performance of The Shrew, a source for The Shrew, or an early draft ( possibly reported ) of The Shrew.