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4 unusual facts about Conservation movement


Conservation movement

Arnone Sipari, Lorenzo, Scritti scelti di Erminio Sipari sul Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo (1922-1933) (2011), 360pp.

The ideas of Sir Brandis, Sir William P.D. Schlich and Carl A. Schenck were also very influential - Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the USDA Forest Service, relied heavily upon Brandis' advice for introducing professional forest management in the U.S. and on how to structure the Forest Service.

Ed Scogin

Scogin was also active in promoting environmental conservation and was once referred to by a colleague as "the conservative conscience" of the legislature.

Inuka

Like most zoo animals, one of each sex was brought in for mating and conservation purposes.


Babylon's Ark

Lawrence speaks of how the rescue inspired the formation of The Earth Organization, a grass roots international non-profit, conservation and environment organization, with new solutions, committed to the creative responsible rehabilitation of Planet Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms.

Bear Smart Initiative

The Bear Smart Initiative is a community initiative sponsored by the Jackson–Macon Conservation Alliance (J-MCA), a nonprofit organization that was formed in hopes of bringing like minded people together who agree on the cause of conserving and protecting the Southern Appalachian Mountains Mountains of Western North Carolina.

Christian the lion

Adamson, a Kenyan conservationist, who together with his wife Joy raised and released Elsa the Lioness, agreed to reintegrate Christian into the wild at their compound in the Kora National Reserve.

George W. Milias

Elected to the Assembly in 1962, Milias served as Vice Chair of the Fish and Game Committee and of the Conservation and Wildlife Committees during his entire legislative tenure.

Goualougo Triangle

Initial surveys of the Goualougo Triangle, comprising a forest rich in mahogany and other valuable hardwoods, were conducted that same year by Michael Fay, a conservationist with the WCS.

Grinnell Glacier

The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the creation of Glacier National Park.

Joe McCord

He was vice chair of the Wildlife Subcommittee and a member of the Commerce Committee, the Conservation and Environment Committee, the Ethics Committee, the Environment Subcommittee, and the Industrial Impact Subcommittee.

John Olmsted

John Olmsted (March 2, 1938 – March 8, 2011) was a California naturalist and conservationist most famous for creating the Independence Trail in Nevada City, California, as well as helping to save numerous other parcels, from Jug Handle State Natural Reserve near Mendocino to the Bridgeport covered bridge.

Laurence Edmondston

He was also a pioneer conservationist as, in 1831, he instructed the shepherds on Hermaness on Unst to ensure the safety of the tiny population of breeding Great Skuas.

Nash Buckingham

Theophilus Nash Buckingam (31 May 1880 - 10 March 1971), commonly referred to as Nash Buckingham, was an American author and conservationist from Tennessee.

Nature's Best Photography

In 1996, the Nature's Best International Photography Awards (now the Nature's Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Photography Awards) was created as an annual competition to recognize outstanding nature photography and foster the efforts of photographers worldwide, as well as further conservation awareness.

On Chesil Beach

Protests by conservationists and a threat by Weymouth and Portland borough council to fine him £2,000 led the author to return the pebbles.

Preecha Siri

Preecha Siri is a Karen Thai conservationist and environmentalist who is a community leader and role model for indigenous natural resource management.

Remember Chek Jawa

It documents a biodiversity survey conducted in 2001, by a small group of volunteer conservationists, headed by botanist Joseph Lai, months before the Singapore government's reclamation project at Chek Jawa, Pulai Ubin.

Robert Cantley

Robert Cantley is a conservationist and Managing Director of Borneo Exotics, a Sri Lankan-based plant nursery specialising in tissue-cultured and seed-grown Nepenthes species and hybrids.

Shafi Edu

Shafi Lawal Edu (1911–2002) was a prominent Nigerian businessman and conservationist from Epe, Lagos State.

Troy Hurtubise

Troy James Hurtubise (born November 23, 1963) is an inventor and conservationist from North Bay, Ontario, Canada noted for his often bizarre creations that he tests on himself in spectacular ways.

Vincent Serventy

Vincent Noel Serventy AM (6 January 1916 – 8 September 2007) was a noted Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist.


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Ernest Schwiebert

Ernie Schwiebert was a pioneer in the fishery conservation movement and was involved in the founding of Trout Unlimited, Theodore Gordon Flyfishers and the Federation of Fly Fishers.

History of bison conservation in Canada

Although the efforts to preserve wildlife for tourism and as resources sparked the conservation movement, the true ideological development began with the institutionalization of environmental protection, which was brought forth through a number of dedicated government bureaucrats such as Robert Campbell, a Canadian Forestry Branch Director, Gordon Hewitt, a Dominion entomologist, and James Harkin, the first Parks Commissioner expressing strong conservationist philosophies.

North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

This tenet draws from the writings of Aldo Leopold, who in the 1930s called for a wildlife conservation movement facilitated by trained wildlife biologists that made decisions based on facts, professional experience, and commitment to shared underlying principles, rather than strictly interests of hunting, stocking, or culling of predators.

R. S. R. Fitter

Richard Fitter was also one of the leading figures in the international wildlife conservation movement, and for many years the Honorary Secretary of the Fauna Preservation Society (now Fauna and Flora International).

Susan Zakin

Coyotes and Town Dogs is a history of the U.S. conservation movement since Earth Day 1970, written in the New Journalism style of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson.