In 1941, American cavers organized themselves into the National Speleological Society ( NSS ) to advance the exploration, conservation, study, and understanding of caves in the United States.

The implications of these findings for the conservation of giraffes were summarised by David Brown, lead author of the study, who told BBC News: " Lumping all giraffes into one species obscures the reality that some kinds of giraffe are on the brink.

Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history.

Two fields of applied biology in which taxonomic work is of fundamental importance are the study of biodiversity and conservation.

( See Raccoon Dog for case study of the conservation of an animal through fur trade.

With the creation of these conservation units, “ political ecologists have devoted some energy to the study of protected areas, which is unsurprising given political ecology ’ s overall interest in forms of access to, and control over resources ” ( Hanna, et al.

That year, Iceland established a separate commission – along with Norway, Greenland and the Faroe Islands – for the conservation, management, and study of marine mammals.

In 2004 – 2005, a conservation and study team replaced the maple crosspieces with sycamore ones, and an additional metal crosspiece was added for scientific measurement of the panel's warp.

It was founded in 1983 and its aims are to promote and to encourage the study and conservation of dragonflies and damselflies and their natural habitats, especially in the United Kingdom.

A nature reserve ( natural reserve, nature preserve, natural preserve, bioreserve ) is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

The Nizhny Tagil Charter was adopted by The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage at its XII Congress in Russia in 2003, and is the international standard for the study, documentation, conservation and interpretation of the industrial heritage.

The agency has adopted a mission statement: to promote the study, conservation, development and use of Ulster Scots as a living language ; to encourage and develop the full range of its attendant culture ; and to promote an understanding of the history of the Ulster-Scots people.

In a study conducted by Bina Agarwal, women were given a place in a forest conservation group.

* River Dolphin Research Program — Amazon innovative research project totally devoted to the study of the ecology and conservation of river dolphins in the Amazon basin, based in the Federal University of Western Pará ( UFOPA ).

School facilities include a 150ha conservation area for the study of conservation and land management, a 75ha mixed produce and livestock farm for agricultural studies, an airconditioned gymnasium, sports fields and a library which is open to students and the wider Humpty Doo community.

The Darr Center serves as a laboratory and field experience classroom for the study of livestock management, equine studies, horticulture, agronomy, animal science, and wildlife conservation and management.

The study found Radburn's design to have important implications for energy conservation, recording that 47 % of its residents shopped for groceries on foot, while comparable figures were 23 % for Reston, Virginia ( another Radburn-type development, but more car oriented ) and only 8 % for a nearby unplanned community.

Red-billed Choughs can acquire blood parasites such as Plasmodium, but a study in Spain showed that the prevalence was less than one percent, and unlikely to affect the life history and conservation of this species.

Baraboo is also home to the International Crane Foundation, an organization dedicated to the study and conservation of the world's 15 species of crane.

According to a letter from Davis to Gaston Maspero, some of the objects found in KV55 were still in place in January 1908, and their study and attempts at conservation were still ongoing at this later date .< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite >, ( Keegan Paul, 1990 ), p

The Museo Cantonale d ' Arte has two parallel objectives: the conservation and study of the Museum's permanent collection, which is above all made up of works belonging to the 19th and 20th centuries ; and the planning and presentation of temporary exhibitions.

A recent study on imperiled cave crayfish in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America demonstrates how phylogenetic analyses along with geographic distribution can aid in recognizing conservation priorities.

The project was guided by the recommendations of a thorough conservation and engineering study conducted in 1991.

Wildlife conservation aims to halt the loss in the earths biodiversity by taking into consideration ecological principles such as carrying capacity, disturbance and succession and environmental conditions such as physical geography, pedology and hydrology with the aim of balancing the needs of wildlife with the needs of people.

# conservation of biological diversity ( or biodiversity );

Its objective is the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources, thereby contributing to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

* Create conditions to promote and encourage research contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

Conservation International and other conservation organizations consider the chaparral to be a biodiversity hotspot-a biological community with a large number of different species-that are under threat by human activity.

Forests support biodiversity, providing habitat for wildlife ; moreover, forests foster medicinal conservation.

An understanding of biodiversity has practical application for ecosystem-based conservation planners as they make ecologically responsible decisions in management recommendations to consultant firms, governments, and industry.

The protected areas have been established under the protected area network across the world for conservation of biodiversity.

Recent U. S. assistance has contributed to a population census and family planning programs ; conservation of Madagascar's remarkable biodiversity, private sector development, agriculture, democracy and governance initiatives ; and media training.

Systematics is also of major importance in understanding conservation issues because it attempts to explain the Earth's biodiversity and could be used to assist in allocating limited means to preserve and protect endangered species, by looking at, for example, the genetic diversity among various taxa of plants or animals and deciding how much of that to preserve.

The botanic garden participates in national and international initiatives for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.

The Global 200, a set of ecoregions identified by WWF whose conservation would achieve the goal of saving a broad diversity of the Earth's ecosystems, includes a number of areas highlighted for their freshwater biodiversity values.

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A new map of biogeographic units for freshwater biodiversity conservation BioScience 58: 403-414.

The contemporary conservation movement has broadened from the early movement's emphasis on use of sustainable yield of natural resources and preservation of wilderness areas to include preservation of biodiversity.

When speaking of political ecology and conservation, one ultimately finds that there is a divergence of ideas, issues, and troubles, especially when looking at conservation through biodiversity and the creation of conservation units.

Another context in which externalities apply is when globalization permits one player in a market who is unconcerned with biodiversity to undercut prices of another who is-creating a race to the bottom in regulations and conservation.

Environmental economics was a major influence for the theories of natural capitalism and environmental finance, which could be said to be two sub-branches of environmental economics concerned with resource conservation in production, and the value of biodiversity to humans, respectively.

This will ensure the long-term quality of the land for human use, the prevention or resolution of social conflicts related to land use, and the conservation of ecosystems of high biodiversity value.

Because of the uniqueness of mangrove ecosystems and the protection against erosion they provide, they are often the object of conservation programs, including national biodiversity action plans.

However, all wildlife trusts share a common interest in wildlife and biodiversity, rooted in a practical tradition of land management and conservation.

While this usage is not new, the idea of biological conservation has been applied to the principles of ecology, biogeography, anthropology, economy and sociology to maintain biodiversity.

Protected areas are essential for biodiversity conservation.

A key conservation issue is the preservation of biodiversity, especially by protecting the remaining rainforests.