These projects are part of a vision to protect and restore the indigenous biodiversity.

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.

Villages grow the majority of their food organically, use local materials for their buildings, protect biodiversity and growing seasons and protect local water, soil and air.

The park was established in 1992 to protect the biodiversity of the mulga lands, mitchell grass and Channel Country ecoregions.

The seeds stored may be food crops, or those of rare species to protect biodiversity.

The U. S. also supports Papua New Guinea's efforts to protect biodiversity ; the International Coral Reef Initiative is aimed at protecting reefs in tropical nations such as Papua New Guinea.

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

* Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability: Scientists at the CBES protect the planet's biodiversity by teaching conservation principles and practices.

At Mahindra United World College of India students fight fires ( Fire service ) in order to protect the schools biodiversity reserve.

Its aim is to protect the habitats of multiple species and overall biodiversity by minimizing development in sensitive areas.

In the mid-20th century national parks started to protect biodiversity, not simply attractive scenery.

The law as drafted will also protect biodiversity as collective intellectual property and recognize the Rights of Nature.

One study, as reported in Peña ( 2003 ), found that acequia agroecosystems promote soil conservation and soil formation, provide terrestrial wildlife habitat and movement corridors ; protect water quality and fish habitat, promote the conservation of domesticated biodiversity of land race heirloom crops, and encourage the maintenance of a strong land and water ethic and sense of place, among other ecological and economic base values.

* Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund ( CEPF ) is a global program that provides funding and technical assistance to nongovernmental organizations and participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity including: biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas and important marine regions.

Its primary objective is to protect marine biodiversity.

Bush regeneration attempts to protect and enhance the floral biodiversity in an area by providing conditions conducive to the recruitment and survival of native plants.

( GRP ) Volunteer program to increase animal and plant biodiversity, and to protect grasslands.

The Matiu / Somes Island Charitable Trust was established in 1998 as a partnership between Te Ati Awa and the general community to help protect, nurture and enhance the island by raising funds for projects that increased biodiversity and enhanced visitors ’ enjoyment of the island.

A new wood has been planted along part of the new path and this will in time extend and protect the habitats and the biodiversity of the site.

Designed to protect and restore land across and adjoining the nation ’ s only global renowned biodiversity hotspot, the completed link will be an arc of bushland stretching for 1000 kilometres, from the wet forests in Western Australia's far southwest to the edge of the Nullarbor Plain.

Today ’ s economic paradigms do not protect the natural environment, yet they deepen human dependency on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Any efforts to protect the world ’ s remaining natural habitat and biodiversity will compete directly with humans ’ growing demand for natural resources, especially new agricultural lands.

Community-based conservation is a conservation movement that emerged in the 1980s through escalating protests and subsequent dialogue with local communities affected by international attempts to protect the biodiversity of the earth.

Taken together, proponents of reconciliation ecology see the species-area relationship and human domination of a large percentage of the Earth ’ s area as a sign that we will not be able to set aside enough land to protect all of life ’ s biodiversity.

She, however, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the Atlas mountains.

One of Switzerland's solutions is to utilise road tunnels passing through the mountains ; with some of these shelters being able to protect tens of thousands.

The packs also contain extra food, clothing and survival gear to protect against unexpected weather changes in the harsh sub-arctic mountains that the skiers cross during the race.

Meanwhile, Shindo and Dr. Tsukamoto are forced to protect Princess Selina as Malmess and his men converge on Tsukamoto's clinic ; they fend the killers off and escape into the mountains as the dueling monsters draw closer, so they can watch the battle from a safe distance.

In 1925 Carl Akeley, a hunter from the American Museum of Natural History who wished to study the gorillas, convinced Albert I of Belgium to establish the Albert National Park to protect the animals of the Virunga mountains.

In 1990 the California Legislature created the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy to protect the mountains surrounding the valley.

The Espigueiros of Soajo, used by early settlers to warehouse and protect food cropsProbably, because the Gerês mountains are a inhospitable place, the oldest signs of human presence date only from 6000 B. C.

He is constantly fending off attempts on his life from the extremely powerful mage Jeslek, who has begun to literally raise mountains from the ground to protect the paved highways the chaos mages have been creating across Candar.

Garibaldi Provincial Park at the southern end of the chain was established in 1927 to protect the abundant geological history, glaciated mountains and other natural resources in the region.

The little town grew rapidly in size and wealth, and the white monks themselves reverted to a more contemplative existence, while the civilian administration of the dukes seized the initiative in founding Raon-l ' Étape on the other side of the river which made it easier to protect transshipment across the river the important Saulniers Way trade route towards the mountains and The Empire beyond.

Should the Aetherius society or the Cosmic Masters fail to protect Earth, the Aetherius Society believe they will be called to sacred mountains to be rescued.

These mountains protect the castas from maritime and continental influences.

Those venturing outside for any length of time should wear sunscreen and take other steps to protect themselves from sunburn since the thinner air of the mountains and ridges offers less protection than it does lower down.

Unlike their cousins, the Common Goblins, Night Goblins live in dark caves under the mountains and generally have a strong aversion to sunlight, so when they come out of their caves they wear dark robes which protect them from sunlight.

During a half-century of environmental achievements, Wayburn led and won campaigns to protect millions of acres of America's coasts, mountains, forests and tundra.

In Phnom Penh, the king ordered the land to be built up to protect it from flooding, and a palace to be built.

In response, Palin stated the reason these wolves are killed is to protect the caribou population in Alaska, and she called the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund an " extreme fringe group ".

As a representative of the World Wildlife Fund, Lindbergh traveled to the Philippines several times between 1969 and 1972, where he helped persuade the government to protect the eagle.

Recently the Federal government began buying land along the rivers for the new Waccamaw Wildlife Refuge, which is intended to protect such wild areas.

It is one of 47 local Wildlife Trusts around the UK working to promote and protect local wildlife.

In 1964, the Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge was established along Lake Walter F. George to serve and protect many endangered and threatened species such as the American Bald Eagle, the American Alligator, the wood stork and the peregrine falcon.

As early as 1903, U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt was convinced of the need to declare Pelican Island in Florida a National Wildlife Refuge to protect the bird colonies ( including the nesting Brown Pelicans ), and in 1909 he protected the Farallon Islands.

In 2001, Republic Act 9147, or the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act was enacted to protect the tamaraw and other endemic species from hunting and sale.

* World Wildlife Fund Works to protect the Whooping Crane and all endangered species.

In the 1920s, the organization also played a vital role in convincing the U. S. government to protect vital wildlife areas by including them in a National Wildlife Refuge system.

* A Conservation of Wildlife Act was passed ( 1946 ) to protect wildlife resources.

These versions are often hosted on-camera and voiced by a female Canadian Wildlife Service worker, concluding with, " To learn more about, and how you can protect it, visit www. hww. ca.

The Fish and Wildlife Service still regulates the legal trade in alligators and their products to protect still endangered crocodilians that may be passed off as alligators during trafficking.

The " No Surprises " policy may be the most controversial of the recent reforms of the law, because once an Incidental Take Permit is granted, the Fish and Wildlife Service ( FWS ) loses much ability to further protect a species if the mitigation measures by the landowner prove insufficient.

It is managed by the Department of the Interior ( U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Park Service ) to protect the water quality, geologic, paleontologic, fish & wildlife, scenic and recreation values.

The Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary, one of ten protected areas of Bhutan, was created in part to protect the migoi, a type of yeti, in whose existence most Bhutanese believe.

In the mid-1990s the United States Fish & Wildlife Service evaluated a petition to list this wolf species as threatened, and decided in August 1997 that a listing was not warranted, largely on the basis of provisions the Forest Service had included to protect the viability of the wolf species in its Forest Plan for the Tongass National Forest, adopted three months earlier.

Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust founded in 1963 is a wildlife conservation charity working to protect and enhance the wildlife and habitats of Nottinghamshire.

Durham Wildlife Trust, founded in 1971, is a registered charity which aims to protect wildlife and promote nature conservation in parts of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, England.

In September 2005, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service banned the import of Caspian Sea Beluga caviar to protect the endangered Beluga sturgeon ; a month later, the ban was extended to include Beluga caviar from the entire Black Sea basin.

* Site of Biological Importance, one of the non-statutory designations used locally by the Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Staffordshire County Councils in England to protect locally valued sites of biological diversity which are described generally as Local Wildlife Sites by the UK Government

The Avon Wildlife Trust aims to protect and promote wildlife in the area of the former county of Avon — now Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, in England.

The World Wildlife Fund of Washington, DC, has worked with the BiAka since the 1980s to protect gorilla habitats, minimize logging of forest, and promote other conservation efforts while empowering the BiAka and other indigenous peoples.

Many Maasai landowners have formed the Kitengela Landowners Association, which works with the Kenyan Wildlife Service to both protect the wildlife and find benefits for the locals.

Several organizations, such as the Arunachal Wildlife and Nature Foundation and the Wildlife Trust of India, have been trying to stop the Nyishi hunting these birds in order to protect them from extinction.