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The protection of natural resources for conservation's sake had transformed to a concern for the environment as a whole, with a goal of reducing the impact of pollution on air, land, water, biodiversity and human health.
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Being from Chicago, when I hear, "You can't expect a well-oiled Chicago political machine to understand conservation's importance in salvaging the environment," I take it badly.
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Being from Chicago, when I hear, "You can't expect a well-oiled Chicago political machine to understand conservation's importance in salvaging the environment," I take it badly.
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Being from Chicago, when I hear, "You can't expect a well-oiled Chicago political machine to understand conservation's importance in salvaging the environment," I take it badly.
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The author writes "The name Aldo Leopold appears prominently in any effort to link conservation's past and present," and thus the second section considers "current themes in conservation through the prism of Leopold's experience."
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There are many necessary luxuries (luxurious necessities?) that I could make do without -- iPod, dishwasher, TV, car -- but I am firmly convinced I would die without a.c. What I've been trying to do for conservation's sake is set it at as high a temperature as I can tolerate without breaking into a sweat at my desk.
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Moosa told journalists the accord would create a new paradigm, and promote a shift from the old outlook of "conservation for conservation's sake", to one that took into account communities and human needs.
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"Critics appear to be ignoring the realities facing nature conservation, and unless they climb down from their luxurious ivory towers and start aquainting themselves with the real issues facing game reserves, conservation's future looks bleak," Gray said on
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Now, every day, World Wildlife Fund addresses itself to what is perhaps conservation's bitterest irony: some of the world's poorest people struggle to survive alongside the world's greatest natural treasures.
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The Western Cape department of nature conservation's Barbara
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