Latest Conservation movement Stories
NEW YORK, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lady Foot Locker celebrates spring by donating $5,000 to American Forests Global ReLeaf program, a national nonprofit organization that restores and protects urban and rural forests. Many will choose to take their workouts outside as the weather gets warmer, enjoying the sun and fresh air. As the destination for active women across the country, Lady Foot Locker's partnership with American Forests helps to ensure that those natural...
NEW YORK, March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With sportsmen issues becoming more prevalent in today's elections, InterMedia Outdoors is pleased to announce the launch of sportsmenvote.com -- a powerful new website dedicated to sportsmen and the issues that will affect them most in the 2012 election. "As the leading media resource for over 52 million hunters, shooters, and anglers, InterMedia Outdoors has a long history of providing information, inspiration and advocacy for the...
The Forest Legacy Program has protected 2.2 million acres through public-private partnership using federal and leveraged funds of more than $562 million. Washington, DC (PRWEB) January 19, 2012 The U.S. Forest Service announced today that it is granting $52.2 million for 17 conservation and working lands projects across the U.S. in 2012. The Forest Legacy Program has protected 2.2 million acres through public-private partnership using federal and leveraged funds of more than $562...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) joins the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA), and other partners at the 2012 SHOT-SHOW to announce the start of a yearlong celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program (WSFR), one of the most significant and successful partnership approaches to fish and wildlife conservation in U.S. history. The "WSFR 75 - It's Your Nature"...
A recent study shows that, over the last two decades, areas with the greatest decrease in African great ape populations are those with no active protection from poaching by forest guards. Recent studies show that the populations of African great apes are rapidly decreasing. Many areas where apes occur are scarcely managed and weakly protected. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have carried out an international collaborative project...
BALTIMORE, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- At its 23rd Annual Symposium, People, Partnerships and Pathways, the Wildlife Habitat Council (WHC) announced that Waste Management (NYSE: WM) is the only company to achieve greater than 100 WHC certifications. WHC presented the company with nine new certifications for Wildlife at Work(SM) programs (WaW), 35 WaW re-certifications, one new certification for Corporate Lands for Learning(SM) programs (CLL) and seven CLL re-certifications. This brings...
To view the Enriched Media Release, click here: http://smr.newswire.ca/en/canadian-boreal-forest-secretariat/the-canadian-boreal-forest-agreement-what-it-means OTTAWA, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - The federal government should take heed of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), an unexpected marriage between conservationists and industry that is helping protect the environment and jobs while boosting Canada's image in the world. That was the view expressed last night at a...
Elephant population appears stableA recently completed aerial survey of northern Botswana by Elephants Without Borders (EWB), through the support of Botswana's Dept. of Wildlife & National Parks, indicates that wildebeest, giraffes, kudu, lechwe, ostriches, roan and tsessebe antelope and warthog species are significantly challenged. Populations of these species appear to have dropped significantly over the past 15 years, specifically in Ngamiland, which encompasses the Okavango...
Ag, conservation groups call on lawmakers to "ensure that reasonable funding levels are continued" WASHINGTON, May 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A coalition of more than 50 agriculture and conservation groups representing millions of Americans today are urging lawmakers to reject nearly $1 billion in proposed cuts to farm bill conservation programs. The organizations are asking the House Appropriations Committee to "ensure that reasonable funding levels are continued" when the...
Lawmakers, Pew and other conservation groups echo call for clear standards WASHINGTON, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 400 scientists, lawmakers and the nation's top conservation leaders today asked the Obama administration to set clear standards for water and wildlife protection in sweeping new rules that would apply to 193 million acres of national forest lands. The call comes at the end of a 90-day public review period, along with more than 300,000 comments from people...
