Some resemble the old U. S. conservation movement-whose modern expression is the Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and National Geographic Society-American organizations with a worldwide influence.

* A Nature Conservation Review, a 1977 publication by Derek Ratcliffe, listing important sites for nature conservation in Great Britain

In December 2000, most of Palmyra Atoll was bought by The Nature Conservancy for coral reef conservation and research.

Only one area of conservation is recorded in the Sahara: the Zellaf Nature Reserve in Libya.

Seychelles began addressing the conservation problem in the late 1960s by creating the Nature Conservancy Commission, later renamed the Seychelles National Environment Commission.

The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has its Bhutanese headquarters here ; it has been responsible for facilitating tiger conservation in Bhutan.

In June 2012, the World Wide Fund for Nature announced it will begin using UAVs in Nepal, to aid conservation efforts, following a successful trial of two aircraft in Chitwan National Park, with ambitions to expand to other countries, such as Tanzania and Malaysia.

The Brue Valley Living Landscape is a conservation project managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust and nearby is the Ham Wall National Nature Reserve.

It has been used in this sense by government organizations as well as conservation groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) and the California Native Plant Society .< ref name = neutral >

West African chimpanzees: status survey and conservation action plan, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group, 219 pages ISBN 2-8317-0733-1, ISBN 978-2-8317-0733-4

Local Nature Reserves and a number of conservation areas can also be found in the borough.

SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature / geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based upon them, including National Nature Reserves, Ramsar Sites, Special Protection Areas, and Special Areas of Conservation.

In order to meet their statutory requirements for conservation and recreation, ESW have formed a partnership with the Broads Authority, the Environment Agency and English Nature.

This has become a core principle of conservation biology and has remained so in recent resolutions-including the World Charter for Nature in 1982, the Rio Declaration at the Earth Summit in 1992, and the Johannesburg Declaration 2002.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN, Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature ( UICN ), in French ) is an international organization dedicated to finding " pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges ".

At that first congress ( held at Fontainebleau, France ), on 5 October 1948, 18 governments, 7 international organizations, and 107 national nature conservation organizations all agreed to form the institution and signed a " constitutive act " creating an International Union for the Protection of Nature.

English Nature was the United Kingdom government agency that promoted the conservation of wildlife, geology and wild places throughout England between 1990 and 2006.

The Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) ( formerly the Nature Conservancy ) was established by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 to cover nature conservation issues across the whole of Great Britain.

English Nature worked closely with the JNCC and the equivalent bodies for Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland ( the Northern Ireland Environment Agency ) to bring a consistent approach to nature conservation throughout the United Kingdom and towards fulfilling its international obligations.

In 1959 the ( then ) Council for Nature appointed Brigadier Armstrong to form the Conservation Corps, with the objective of involving young volunteers, over the age of 16, in practical conservation work.

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It advises the Scottish Government and acts as a government agent in the delivery of conservation designations, i. e. National Nature Reserves, Local Nature Reserves, Long Distance Routes, National Parks, Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ), Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas and the National Scenic Area.

City boards include those responsible for the library, the airport, the parks, the memorial building, planning and zoning, the Wilson Nature Preserve, and historic preservation.

The decision to grant planning permission for Bolnore Village was somewhat controversial, since the Ashenground and Catts Woods on that site formed a Site of Nature Conservation Interest ( SNCI ).

Some organizations, such as the Nature Conservancy, are planning to restore parts of the forest that have been lost and to build corridors that are compatible with the lifestyles of the native people.

During this time, he read Thomas Henry Huxley's 1877 work Physiography: An Introduction to the Study of Nature — a gift from his brother James, and a work that would prove influential in MacKaye's future regional planning.

Born in 1948 in Penang, Malaysia, Yeang attended Penang Free School and Cheltenham Boys College ( a British ' public school ' in Gloucestershire, UK ), obtained his first qualifications in architecture from the Architectural Association School ( London ), and received a PhD in ecological design and planning from Cambridge University's Department of Architecture for his dissertation, " A Theoretical Framework for Incorporating Ecological Considerations in the Design and Planning of the Built Environment ", published as Designing with Nature ( McGraw-Hill, 1995 ) that became the springboard for his pioneering work in ecodesign, green architecture and ecocity masterplanning.

His 1969 book Design with Nature pioneered the concept of ecological planning.

Frederick Steiner tells us that " environmental impact assessment, new community development, coastal zone management, brownfields restoration, zoo design, river corridor planning, and ideas about sustainability and regenerative design all display the influence of Design with Nature ".

Scholars made numbered sets of as many things as possible in Nature, or assigned arbitrary numbers to individual things, in a fashion that seems to the modern scientific mind as downright nonsensical, and philosophical ideas based upon all this tended to stifle speculative thought in China for many centuries.

In the study published in the February 2007 print issue of Nature Neuroscience, researchers have found a part of the brain that behaves differently for altruistic and selfish people.

It has established a Ministry of Nature Protection and introduced taxes for air and water pollution and solid waste disposal, whose revenues are used for environmental protection activities.

* Dialogue with Nature for alphorn, flute & orchestra by Daetwyler

In " Mémoire sur la combustion en général " (" On Combustion in General ," 1777 ) and " Considérations générales sur la nature des acides " (" General Considerations on the Nature of Acids ," 1778 ), he demonstrated that the " air " responsible for combustion was also the source of acidity.

The World Wide Fund for Nature has stated that 361 animal and plant species have been discovered in Borneo since 1996.

The World Wide Fund for Nature divides the island into seven distinct ecoregions.

A team of biologists convened by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) developed an ecological land classification system that identified fourteen biomes, called major habitat types, and further divided the world's land area into 867 terrestrial ecoregions.

The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) divides the waters of the Columbia and its tributaries into three freshwater ecoregions, naming them: Columbia Glaciated, Columbia Unglaciated, and Upper Snake.

According to a report in Nature magazine, ( November, 2009 ) the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era, and the first time scientists have actually measured it, suggests " the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions — a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

CITES ( the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention ) is a multilateral treaty, drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ).

It also clearly stated that anyone who separated Christ into two hypostases was anathema, as Athanasius had said that there is " One Nature and One Hypostasis for God the Word Incarnate " ( Mia Physis tou Theou Loghou Sesarkomeni ).

More recently, The Nature of Order's " deep geometrical structures " have been cited as having importance for object-oriented programming, particularly in C ++.

Such massive violence led to a search for natural religious truthstruths that could be universally accepted, because they had been either " written in the book of Nature " or " engraved on the human mind " by God.

Such was the time taken in peer-reviewing the paper for Nature that this was preceded by a 1972 essay by Maynard Smith in a book of essays titled On Evolution.

The largest and most influential environmental organizations in the United States, according to Andrew Rowell are the so called Group of Ten: Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth, Izaak Walton League, Sierra Club, The Wilderness Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature

Research for Agriculture and Nature.

Edward Fredkin in the Fredkin Finite Nature Hypothesis has suggested an informational basis for Einstein's hypothetical algebraic system.

Huxley argued for human evolution from apes by illustrating many of the similarities and differences between humans and apes, and did so particularly in his 1863 book Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature.

In 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.

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In his paper " Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden " (" Experiments on Plant Hybridization "), presented in 1865 to the Naturforschender Verein ( Society for Research in Nature ) in Brünn, Mendel traced the inheritance patterns of certain traits in pea plants and described them mathematically.

Alan Marshall, in the Department of Social Sciences at Mahidol University, for example, reflects upon the way Gaia philosophy has been used and advocated by environmentalists, spiritualists, managers, economists, and scientists and engineers ( see The Unity of Nature, 2002, Imperial College Press: London and Singapore ).