Conservation

Go to Source In his first janta durbar, Prakash Javadekar discussed illegal construction on the city's hills and the challenge of controlling environmental damage. Laying emphasis on wider participation of people for effective…

Go to Source Last week was the beginning of another great summer of the Muskingum Soil and Water Conservation District’s Kids Conservation Camp. This is the 10th year the district has hosted this bi-weekly camp, which is held…

Go to Source Not this weekend, but soon, the sound of sprinklers will be ringing throughout the City of Nelson. Despite the recent weekend weather pattern where raindrops got the better over sunshine, the City of Nelson…

Go to Source LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - Three conservation groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency's designation of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species rather than an endangered…

Go to Source Goderich’s newest proposed heritage conservation district will have to wait at least a few more weeks before being approved by council. Town planner Dwayne Evans presented a report to…

Go to Source FORT MYERS — A state agency wants to find out what opportunities are out there for conservation on privately held lands in Florida. On the first afternoon Tuesday of a three-day meeting in Fort Myers,…

Go to Source The city gave the go ahead to apply for a loan from the Texas Water Development Board, moving the permanent water reuse project forward. The loan would save the city about 7 million dollars over 30 years…

Go to Source About two months after Governor Jerry Brown called on Californians to cut their water use by 20 percent, some statistics are in. The State Water Resources Control Board released new survey results…

Go to Source Associate Conservation Minister Nicky Wagner today paid tribute to the thousands of volunteers in the conservation sector who are playing a vital part to protect our special plants, animals and places. …

Go to Source With Argyll and the Isles fairly substantially implicated in this, the conservation body, Salmon & Trout Association Scotland have issued a call for urgent action, following the latest aggregated sea lice data published…

Go to Source SINGAPORE: Five former Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) blocks at Kampong Silat have been gazetted for conservation under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's (URA) Master Plan 2014. Originally there…

Go to Source Source: The Sangai Express / Mungchan Zimik The State Forest Department organized a one-day awareness and sensitization programme on conservation of wildlife and forest at Choithar village in Ukhrul district today.…

Go to Source OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Conservation groups are petitioning the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife to limit the killing of wolves in response to livestock deaths. The groups filed their…

Go to Source OVER 2.25 million US dollars (over 37bn/-) raised last year in an elephants protection charity walk organised by US-based Friedkin Conservation Fund and locally based Africa Wildlife Trust (AWT) was not meant for…

Go to Source Ryan Ellis’ 2nd and 3rd grade class at Forest Ridge Elementary School in Salem won first place in a mural contest organized by the Marion Soil & Water Conservation District.(Photo: Special to The Statesman…

Go to Source Alyx Cunningham of Boling High School and Betty Reck of St. Philip Catholic School in El Campo were recognized for outstanding contributions to the Texas Soil and Water Conservation Program at an Area III…

Go to Source By Bailey Loosemore The conservation subdivision design wasn’t available to Louisville-based Dominion Homes eight or nine years ago when the company bought a 37-acre property off Mount Washington Road. The…

Go to Source BERNE — One of the neighbors and potential bidders for a foreclosed property near a state preserve is the town’s building inspector, who was recently accused of trying to devalue an adjoining parcel. …

TUCSON – It’s a complex calculation, but at the most fundamental level this much is true: The amount of water needed to have a lush, green lawn in Phoenix would yield a substantially higher water bill for a homeowner here. To Dan…

The Tanzania government, in collaboration with the International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF) of the United States of America and the United Nations Development Program, has organized a special conference late…

The April 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine has a fantastic photo-essay on two French islands of the Mozambique Channel: Europa and Bassas da India. The article describes the pristine marine environments around…

 Residents of American Fork will have to be careful what day they water their lawn. The City Council approved water conservation measures Tuesday to ensure the community has enough water to get through the summer. …

Dundee, OR —Duck Pond Cellars, a family-owned winery in Dundee, Oregon, recently released Conservation Cuvée, a limited-edition Pinot Noir whose sale benefits the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)…

Georgia’s five wildlife license plates will soon cost less and provide more support for conserving Georgia wildlife, from bald eagles to bobwhite quail. Governor Nathan Deal signed House Bill 881 into law on…

A conservation camp in northern New Hampshire gives children and teens the chance to live in the wilderness and learn skills like shooting, tracking and fishing. The Barry Conservation Camp offers week-long…

Kiphire Wildlife Division (KWD), in collaboration with the Nagaland Pollution Control Board (NPCB), Dimapur, today organised a workshop on ‘Sensitisation and Environment Education Techniques for Biodiversity…

This Spring, the Kenya Tourism Board introduces its campaign for conservation in the U.S., in an effort to demonstrate the importance of wildlife conservation in Kenya. The Kenya Tourism Board (KTB), along…

Conservation Halton is warning residents to stay away from watercourses and nearby structures such as bridges and dams as 20 mm of rain is expected to fall on the region tonight and into Tuesday morning. The conservation authority…

Two conservation authorities in the Ottawa region have issued flood watches as warm weather, coupled with rain and melting snow, could trigger some flooding. The Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA)…

Several conservation groups have filed legal briefs in the fight over a planned electronics company building along the Palisades by the Hudson River. The New Jersey Conservation Foundation says about a…