Conservation in sentence

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Today in Madagascar, hundreds of sites are managed by communities applying this human rights-based approach to conservation to all kinds of fisheries, from mud crabs to mackerel.

From Tanzania to Timor-Leste, from India to Indonesia, we're seeing the same story unfold: that when we design it right, marine conservation reaps dividends that go far beyond protecting nature, improving catches and driving waves of social change along entire coastlines, strengthening confidence, cooperation and the resilience of communities to face the injustice of poverty and climate change.

We need agile data systems that put science in the hands of communities to optimize conservation to the target species or habitat.

We need development agencies, donors and the conservation establishment to raise their ambition to the scale of investment urgently required to deliver this vision.

And to get there, we all need to reimagine marine conservation as a narrative of abundance and empowerment, not of austerity and alienation; a movement guided by the people who depend on healthy seas for their survival, not by abstract scientific values.

It's not just a conservation in formaldehyde of dead forms.

You know the Soviet architecture of that building is the conservation.

And it brought me straight into the conservation fray.

You've all heard, perhaps, of Project Tiger which started back in the early '70s, which was, in fact, a very dynamic time for conservation.

So, starting in the mid-'70s when conservation was at the fore, we were actually able to start projects which were basically government supported to collect eggs from the wild from the few remaining nests and release 5,000 baby gharial back to the wild.

You can get a proxy, as it's being called by conservation biologists, of the woolly mammoth, that is effectively a hairy, curly-trunked, Asian elephant that is perfectly comfortable in the sub-Arctic.

So mammoths become what conservation biologists call an umbrella species.

So marine conservation and coastal protection has become a sink for government or philanthropic money, and this is not sustainable.

Second, we need to redesign our governance so conservation efforts can be decentralized, so conservation efforts don't depend on work from NGOs or from government agencies and can be created by the local communities, like it happens in the Philippines and a few other places.

We really need to develop models, business models, where coastal conservation is an investment, because we already know that these marine reserves provide social, ecological and economic benefits.

They're actually the big money-maker in Rwanda, and on this side of the border, conservation has become a huge success.

And thus, as people started feeling ownership over wildlife, wildlife numbers started coming back, and that's actually becoming a foundation for conservation in Namibia.

And most of my conservation colleagues today that you find in Namibia have been trained through the initiative, through the involvement of World Wildlife Fund in the most up-to-date conservation practices.

We have already reshaped conservation in the entire country.

Nowhere else in the world has community-adopted conservation at this scale.

We knew conservation would fail if it doesn't work to improve the lives of the local communities.

Working with four prisons, we began bringing science and scientists, sustainability and conservation projects to four state prisons.

And perhaps even more interesting from our point of view, another tension between novelty-seeking behaviors and tradition or conservation.

I mean, we're beginning to see some of the big problems around something like business are recycling and energy conservation.

I needed to head towards conservation goals.

They realized that this was a common cause that they had found with the conservation community.

Now I remember that dinner I had with the Minister of Fisheries 10 years ago when we first brought this up and I got quite animated during the dinner and said, "Well, I think that the conservation community might embrace this idea, Minister."

Here's the Pacific with large MPAs and large conservation zones on it.

And what do we know about most ecosystems from conservation biology?

Because we all know how dedicated America is to conservation of the environment.

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