Ford entered the social gaming space this year with developer Talkie and his favorite organization, Conservation International.
The December 2005 expedition was organised by the US-based organisation Conservation International, together with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
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There are plenty of examples of nongovernmental organizations collaborating with companies: Sierra Club with Clorox, Conservation International with Starbucks, WWF with Unilever.
Once a nesting ground for thousands of female turtles, just 58 arrived this year, down from 124 in 2006, Conservation International said.
Experts with Conservation International argue that the discovery is particularly significant since amphibians serve as an accurate gauge of an area's ecological health.
The meeting was organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, Conservation International (CI), and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Conservation International support the development of electricity generation for domestic consumption and export as these are critical components of development for Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
And there are also community-owned enterprises, such as the Chalalan Ecolodge in Bolivia, which was set up with financial help from the US-based environmental organisation Conservation International.
In the Pacific Ocean alone around 95 percent of leatherbacks have vanished in the past 20 years due to human activity, according to the environmental group Conservation International.
This side event was organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO-IOC), the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Conservation International to provide timely information to delegates during the process.
Michael Tobias (MT): As one of the most influential advocates for global conservation, what are the most pressing dilemmas facing Conservation International today, as it works assiduously on so many fronts?
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"If you took all the remaining individuals from the 25 primate species on this list and gave them a seat in a football stadium, they'd all fit, " said Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International.
Scientists with Conservation International on Monday announced the discovery of 10 new species in what's being referred to as a safe haven for frogs located in the west of the country on the border with Panama.
The Working Group was created as an initial step in advancing the scientific, management and policy goals of the Blue Carbon Initiative, whose founding members include Conservation International (CI), the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
"What we're hoping to do these next two weeks is have as many people as we possibly can come to the Web site, get involved in the race and have some fun with it, " said Rod Mast, vice president of Conservation International, which is sponsoring the race along with National Geographic and the Canadian Sea Turtle Network.
"Local forest communities and civil society groups have so far been completely excluded from the initiative, which is primarily about 'partnerships' between international conservation organisations and international loggers, " said Simon Counsell, director of the Rainforest Foundation.
Mr Lochhead said the decision by Iceland represented a "flagrant disregard" for fisheries conservation and international opinion.
"We are facing an extinction crisis, " said Jane Smart, director of the biodiversity conservation group with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
It says that any nongovernmental organization, or individual, is empowered to uphold international conservation law.
They even have the backing of two big international conservation groups, who claim the project will save the area from slash-and-burn farmers.
WWF, an international conservation group, have been proselytising on the elephants' behalf.
But this view is one that receives little support among international conservation groups and the opposing sides are lining up to lock horns in Santiago.
Since 1989 there have been many efforts on the part of foreign governments and international conservation groups to increase the ability of poor countries to protect their elephants.
Conservation partnership BirdLife International established the Bali Starling Project, with the cooperation of the Indonesian government and US and British zoos, in an attempt to save the species from extinction.
You are in violation of international conservation regulations.
You won't find many international conservation groups who will brag about, or even tell you, that they're funding initiatives to go after local people, to try to stop some activities that local people are doing, or to be paying local people to be informing on other local people.
Ms Mitrofanova also advocated for greater transparency in the work of the advisory bodies: the International Union for Conservation of Nature, (IUCN) the International Council on Monuments and Sites, and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM).
The most difficult place to introduce market-based conservation methods is in international waters.
The zoo said the International Partula Conservation Programme planned to release the snails into reserves on the islands later this year.
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