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    Game Warden

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    The Wildlife of a Conservation Officer A conservation officer is an officer who protects parks and wilderness areas by making sure everyone follows hunting and fishing laws. Conservation officers must have a love for the outdoors, enjoy hunting and fishing, and be able to work in harsh conditions. They are often known by the title Game Warden. The main duties of a Game Warden are to enforce hunting and fishing laws by warning and arresting offenders. They are also obligated to investigate complaints

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    Rachel Stillman HONH242 11/27/12 The Role of Zoos in Conservation: Ethical Considerations As the animal rights movement has developed and grown substantially in recent years, there has been an increased focused on the welfare of captive animals. A popular institution that has received much attention for keeping animals captive is the zoo. Because of this focus, zoos have responded by publicizing their positive benefits for existence in order to justify keeping these animals on display. Since

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    Synopsis: Achieving Conservation goals with Urbanizing Landscapes Goal of the Study: To help Conservation biology realize that they need to embrace urbanizing ecosystems; to consider designing a protected area of network in NJ highlands; to apply the costs of obtaining land and integrating this land into a protected urban area and to observe the performance of a long stand preserved urban area in central university in terms of its biodiversity protection. Rationale: Urban areas should not be

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    Gradually conservationist efforts of resource preservation developed, characterizing North America’s first wave of environmentalism. Individuals involved within Canada’s forestry industry developed many of the earliest conservation efforts. The rapid depletion of Canadian forests forced many to advocate for the development of controlled harvesting and reserved areas. By 1900, the Canadian Forestry Association was established. Despite Canada’s earliest efforts, their neighbours

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    Virginia Mckenna, a British stage and screen actress, author, and wildlife campaigner, once said “We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.” On average, 6,126 animals are kept in enclosures (Statistic Brain). Of those 6,126 animals, only 1,041 are endangered. The 5,085 are kept in tight, confined areas for “educational purposes.” Zoos date back to as far as 2500 BCE with

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    Introduction According to the Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013, "wildlife conservancy" means: Land set aside by an individual, land owners, body corporate, group of owners or community for purpose of wildlife conservation. for Following the enactment of the Act, wildlife conservation is now a recognized form of land use. There are incentives for largescale landowners to convert private ranches to conservancies. Presently, there are between 133-140 conservancies spread across

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    Wildlife Refuges

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    Policies at the local, state, and federal level have had a large impact on management and are also reflective of how governments perceived the role of wildlife refuges. The Klamath River Basin, like much of the western United States, has much federal influence because of the prevalence of federal lands in the basin. The policy making bodies within the Klamath make decisions based on the missions and interests of their individual agencies, and sometimes these missions can be contradictory(Wilson 2010)

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    Vision The Youth for environment in Schools organization as n effective and respective school-based environmental organization linked with the other agencies/ institutions for conservation and preservation of natural resources towards sustainable development. Mission To preserve and conserve our natural resources through environmental awareness of the community resulting in their active involvement on environmentally related issues

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    Wenderholm Field Trip Report Abstract Translocation of native birds to offshore islands has been a part of ecological restoration in New Zealand and has started since 1890’s. This translocation to mainland islands was started by the Department of Conservation in the year 1995. Wenderholm Regional Park has an area of 60 hectares maintained for ecological restoration. The area has been fenced to prevent the entry of livestock and the pasture land is reforested. The ecology of the park was restored to

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    when it comes to conserving waterfowl and wetlands, Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl. Both groups are able to raise millions of dollars for waterfowl due to their enormous amount of members. However, I feel that Ducks Unlimited is the better conservation group because they can maintain and manage the landscape of an ecosystem effectively, and they are a greater political force compared to Delta Waterfowl. Ducks Unlimited was founded by Joseph

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