The Amphibian Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) is spearheading efforts to implement a comprehensive global strategy for amphibian conservation.

One such project is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project that built on existing conservation efforts in Panama to create a country-wide response to the threat of chytridiomycosis.

Conservation efforts since the 1980s have partially restored the ecosystem.

Thanks to the former Soviet system of game preserves and the efforts of the Society for Nature Conservation and the Academy of Sciences, flora and fauna receive some protection in the republic ; however, " hard-currency hunts " by wealthy Western and Arab businesspeople already are depleting animals on preserves.

Conservation efforts have allowed the population to increase, but the bison remains near threatened.

Scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and governments around the world are working to reduce the threats posed to them, and these efforts have led to the signing of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels, a legally binding international treaty signed in 2001.

This vision involved providing GIS software, data, and training, as well as helping to coordinate multiorganizational efforts ( i. e. The Society for Conservation GIS ).

* California Conservation Corps, spearhead of Ammophila removal efforts in California.

May the joint efforts of the royal authorities, the local police, the Wernigerode Nature Conservation Society and individual friends of the Brocken also succeed now in central Germany, through caring nurture across the board, in establishing and preserving the Brocken too, as a small, but unique, nature reserve for the German people.

Allen Nease, an American pioneer of reforestation and conservation efforts in Florida in the mid-20th century, planted over 55 million pine trees and was nicknamed “ Johnny Pine nut .” Another tireless promoter of tree-planting is Marthinus Daneel, Ph. D., Professor of African studies at Boston University and founder of ZIRRCON ( Zimbabwean Institute of Religious Research and Ecological Conservation ).

In efforts to protect O ' Connell Street from the planning mistakes of the past, the thoroughfare has been designated an Architectural Conservation Area and an Area of Special Planning Control-both of which safeguards strictly govern all aspects of planning and development on the street.

GIS and the Conservation Department will use the data to create enhanced maps and improve conservation efforts throughout the ranch.

Plains bison have been reintroduced to conservation areas scattered throughout their historic domain, for example Grasslands National Park and the Old Man on His Back Prairie and Heritage Conservation Area in Saskatchewan, and in 2006, 30 wood bison were relocated to the Republic of Sakha ( Yakutia ) to begin repopulation efforts of the area historically inhabited by the now extinct steppe bison.

Conservation efforts at Rugby began in the 1940s when logging practices were decimating the surrounding virgin forests.

Conservation efforts succeeded in increasing the population to around 400 birds by the mid-1980s, and they have subsequently been reintroduced to several sites, but remain endangered.

Douglas continued her activism and focused her efforts on restoring the Everglades after declaring that " Conservation is now a dead word ... You can't conserve what you haven't got.

The Surrey Trust for Nature Conservation ( now renamed the Surrey Wildlife Trust ) had carried out small-scale scrub clearance work from 1974 onwards and Surrey County Council began clearing scrub on the Common from the 1970s onwards ; however despite their best efforts the scrub continued to advance.

Conservation efforts have led to a population increase ; as of April 2007 there were about 340 Whooping Cranes living in the wild, and another 145 living in captivity.

In addition to the World Wildlife Fund, organizations such as The WILD Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, The Wilderness Society ( United States ) and many others are active in such conservation efforts.

From his position on the House Committee on Natural Resources -- where he has been the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands since 2007 -- he has led Democratic efforts to strengthen federal offshore oil drilling oversight since before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and introduced a successful bill to create a permanent National Landscape Conservation System at the Bureau of Land Management.

Conservation efforts include research and environmental education.

Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1981 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1985 ; Award of Excellence, by the Triangle J Council of Governments, in 1985 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Research Triangle Group of the Sierra Club, in 1986 ; Service Award, by the Orange-Chatham Alliance for the Mentally Ill ; Triangle Conservation Award, by the Triangle Land Conservancy, in 1987 ; Consumer Advocate of the Year, by the North Carolina Consumers Council, in 1987 ; Honorary Citizenship of the City of Raleigh, by Mayor Avery Upchurch, in 1987, for efforts in the passage of the phosphate detergent limitation ; Resolution of Appreciation, by the Governor's Crime Commission, in 1987 ; Service Award, by the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action, Inc. Board of Directors, in 1988 ; Service Award, by the North Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club, in 1988 ; Legislative Award, by the North Carolina Chapter, American Planning Association, in 1989 ; Legislative Award, by the N. C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the N. C. Pediatric Society, in 1989 ; Appreciation Award, by the Chatham County Advisory Council of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, in 1990 ; " Best Bets For 1990 ", by the Center For Policy Alternatives, Sustainable Growth Program, in 1990, " For Leadership in Reducing Environmental Hazards by Sponsoring Legislation to Establish Free Disposal Sites for Used Tires "; Service Award, by the Environmental Quality and Natural Resources Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference, in 1991, " In Appreciation For His Outstanding Leadership As Chairman .... 1989-1991 "; Recycling Merit Award, by the North Carolina Recycling Association in 1991 ; Appreciation Award, by the North Carolina Property Mappers Association, in 1993 ; Jake Alexander Public Service Award, by Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Driving Drunk, and the Governor's Highway Safety Program, in 1993 ; Distinguished Service Award, by the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, in 1996 ; Legislator of the Year, by North Carolina Citizen Action, for " your years of outstanding leadership and dedication to the fair protection of North Carolina families, workers and environment ", in 1996 ; Certificate of Commendation, by the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, for " persistence and legislative commitment to improving mental health in North Carolina ", in 1997 ; Governor's Award as Legislator of the Year, by the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in 1998 ; Friend of Education Award, by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Association of Educators, in 1999 ; Public Service Award, by the Child Care Services Association, for " outstanding advocacy and service on behalf of young children and their families ", in 2003.

He was awarded the U. S. Department of Interior's Conservation Service Award in 1962 for his efforts to spearhead conservation legislation including laws that created a new national seashore on Padre Island, Cape Cod National Seashore, and Point Reyes in California.

On March 19, 2009, a federal judge ordered a temporary injunction blocking the implementation of the rule allowing concealed carry permit holders to carry firearms concealed within National Park Service lands within states where their permits are valid, based upon environmental concerns, in response to efforts by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the National Parks Conservation Association, and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees.

* The early Conservation movement, which began in the late 19th century, included fisheries and wildlife management, water, soil conservation and sustainable forestry.

Modern hazardous waste regulations in the U. S. began with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( R. C. R. A.

The science of chemistry began to develop with the work of Robert Boyle, the discoverer of gas, and Antoine Lavoisier, who developed the theory of the Conservation of mass.

In order to reduce crude oil consumption, the 1974 Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act mandated maximum speed limits of on public highways and became the first instance where the U. S. federal government began providing funding for ridesharing and states were allowed to spend their highway funds on rideshare demonstration projects.

The uniqueness of the Seychelles ' ecology is reflected in the US $ 1. 8 million project of the Global Environment Trust Fund of the World Bank ( see Glossary ) entitled Biodiversity Conservation and Marine Pollution Abatement, that began in 1993.

In reaction to this, in early 2008 a pro-rBST advocacy group called " American Farmers for the Advancement and Conservation of Technology " ( AFACT ), made up of dairies and originally affiliated with Monsanto, formed and began lobbying to ban such labels.

In Jersey, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, in partnership with the States of Jersey and the National Trust for Jersey began a project in 2010, aimed at restoring selected areas of Jersey ’ s coastline with the intention of returning those birds that had become locally extinct.

In 1937, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, with the aid of the Civilian Conservation Corps, began the process of creating a refuge within dry, alkaline lands between the towns of Willows and Maxwell.

Conservation of the Giant began in 1924 with the creation of the Sleeping Giant Park Association ( SGPA ) by a group of local residents concerned with ongoing traprock quarrying on the Giant's head.

The Tasmanian Wilderness Society, under activist Bob Brown, which had formed from the anti-Lake Pedder Dam groups, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust and the Australian Conservation Foundation began to mount a public interest campaign concerning the river.

Conservation studies, in Jocassee Gorge, began in the late 1970s.

Development of land in what is now South Mountains State Park began in the 1930s when Camp Dryer, a Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC ) camp, was established at Enola.

* 1993: Old aquarium was closed and construction of the new aquarium began, Zoo received two AAZPA awards: the Conservation Award for its black-footed ferret management program and the Significant Achievement Award for the Lied Jungle, world ’ s first artificially-inseminated gaur calf was born at the Zoo

* 1998: Garden of the Senses, Lee G. Simmons Conservation Park and Wildlife Safari west of Omaha ’ s Zoo at Nebraska ’ s 1-80 Exit 426, new diet kitchen was completed, construction began on a new pathology lab and keepers lounge

* 2005: Hubbard Orangutan Forest in two phased May and August, giraffe feeding station in the spring, construction began on an addition to the Grewcock Center for Conservation and Research

The Civilian Conservation Corps began work on a series of low dikes which would hold water and restore part of the marsh habitat that had once existed.

In 2003 the Napa County Resource Conservation District began an ongoing salmon monitoring program, and have recorded a run of approximately 400-1000 fall-run Chinook salmon the past several years.

M Area settling basin cleanup began under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ( RCRA ).

His work with the IUCN Canid Specialist Group began in 1995 as Conservation Officer, assisting with various conservation programmes and coordinating the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme ( EWCP ).

Conservation efforts began in the 1900s to save the cathedral from further damage.