Conservation
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382 examples of Conservation in a sentence
I guess the big question here is, am I studying tapirs and contributing to their conservation, or am I just documenting their extinction?
The world is facing so many different
conservation
crises.
I started my tapir work in 1996, still very young, fresh out of college, and it was a pioneer research and
conservation
program.
We need those long-term datasets to support
conservation
action, and I told you tapirs are very hard to study, so we have to rely on indirect methods to study them.
We are losing several
conservation
battles, and we need more people doing what we do, and they need the skills, and they need the passion to do that.
Ultimately, we conservationists, we must be able to apply our data, to apply our accumulated knowledge to support actual
conservation
action.
After 12 years in the Atlantic Forest, in 2008, we expanded our tapir
conservation
efforts to the Pantanal in the western part of Brazil near the border with Bolivia and Paraguay.
So thanks to these amazing devices, we have been able to gather precious information about tapir reproduction and social organization which are very important pieces of the puzzle when you're trying to develop those
conservation
strategies.
We really came to a point in the
conservation
world where we have to think out of the box.
I know in my heart that tapir
conservation
is my cause.
Whether I see it in a tweet, in a news headline or the glossy pages of a
conservation
brochure, that phrase bothers me, because we as conservationists have been sounding the alarms about the death of coral reefs for decades.
But our technology for
conservation
is behind.
This is called the
conservation
of angular momentum.
When we were naming the site in Cancun, we named it a museum for a very important and simple reason: museums are places of preservation, of
conservation
and of education.
The third tap that we need to open up will not be a tap at all, it will be a kind of virtual tap, it will be the water
conservation
that we manage to do.
And the place where we need to think about water
conservation
is outdoors because in California and other modern American cities, about half of our water use happens outdoors.
We need a worldwide, global mobilization for renewable energy, conservation, efficiency and a global transition to a low-carbon economy.
But geothermal, concentrating solar, advanced photovoltaics, efficiency and
conservation.
Today, they are the most ardent
conservation
champions and manta rays earn the Maldivian economy in excess of 8 million dollars every single year.
In fact, when we run the numbers, it looks like it'll take us at least 15 years before we can fully finance all our
conservation
efforts.
Every ecologist I know, every
conservation
biologist I know, every
conservation
professional I know, built forts when they were kids.
And so, let's do solar and wind and efficiency and
conservation.
There's no simple or easy answer, and even well-intentioned efforts at
conservation
often run into problems.
I'm talking about
conservation
burial, where large swaths of land are purchased by a land trust.
There's hope in
conservation
cemeteries.
That's called
conservation
of angular momentum.
It's a demonstration of something in physics that we call the law of
conservation
of angular momentum, which basically says that if you set something spinning about a fixed axis, that it will keep spinning unless you do something to stop it.
It's got gyroscopes which are spinning, and because of the law of
conservation
of angular momentum, they keep spinning with the same axis, indefinitely.
My fascination with giant clams got me started on
conservation
research to fill in the knowledge gaps on their ecology and behavior.
And the ecological benefits of having giant clams on coral reefs are likely to continue only if populations are healthy, making their
conservation
paramount.
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