The problem has long been recognized, and the aforementioned Habitats Directive -- a corollary of the 1979 Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats -- introduced a range of measures aimed at protecting endangered species (including plants, birds and fish as well as mammals).
Jolyon Chesworth, head of marine conservation for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, said he was "absolutely staggered" by the decision.
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Dr Anak Pattanavibool, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Thailand, says that if the intensity of patrolling slackens even briefly, large numbers of tigers could be poisoned very rapidly.
He goes on regular wildlife trips with his daughters, Aditi, who is on the board of his Wildlife Conservation Trust, and Shuchi.
According to Paul Balkenbush, stream fish biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, improved culvert designs allow native smallmouth to reach necessary habitat at high flows.
So it was for this reason--against all common sense--that we organized our expedition into the Cardamoms, guided by Hunter Weiler of the conservation group Fauna and Flora International and Department of Wildlife enforcement officer Chheang Dany.
George Schaller of the Wildlife Conservation Society has fought for and studied the endangered species for 15 years.
"Let's not let the Farm Bureau ruin a good thing, " said Bob Ferris, Species Conservation Director for the Defenders of Wildlife.
These sites are well used by local people, the woodlands are sympathetically managed for wildlife and conservation of key species which includes co-ordinated management and felling.
"The industry is not going to do the right thing unless there is a universal requirement to slow down, " said Vicki Cornish, vice president of marine wildlife conservation at the Ocean Conservancy.
There is a vaccine for badgers - the BCG jab, which has been used by a number of wildlife and conservation bodies in England, including the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the National Trust.
About 90% of its plant species exist nowhere else on the planet, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, and many of its bird, reptile and animal species -- including all the world's lemurs in the wild -- are endemic.
Realising that they had no experience of tourism or conservation, they approached Wouter van Hoven, a professor of wildlife management at the University of Pretoria, who has been their chief fundraiser and publicist ever since.
It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.
This time though, it is due to the joy that they have finally found a way of combining their traditional lifestyle, conservation and the demands of the modern world into one happy, wildlife-filled bundle.
He served as President of the World Wildlife Fund from 1985 to 1989 and President of the Conservation Foundation from 1973 to 1989.
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"The increasing number of vehicles in the park and the unruly behavior of most are cause for much concern, " says Ravi Corea, president of the Sri Lankan Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS).
"Before, we used to record about 30 human deaths because of wildlife attacks annually but in the past few years the figure appears to have risen significantly, " said Forest Ministry spokesman Krishna Acharya who, until recently, headed Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
But Jamie Rappaport Clark, president of Defenders of Wildlife, called it "a tragic ending to what has otherwise been one of America's greatest wildlife conservation success stories".
The calf's mother was moved, and officials discovered the calf was older than initially thought, so it was allowed to swim away into Tampa Bay, said Andy Garrette of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
"While Defenders has always recognized that professional control of wolves that prey on livestock is a necessary evil, allowing random, non-selective take through public hunting and trapping is a poor wildlife management decision, " warned Nina Fascione, Defenders of Wildlife associate director of species conservation.
"Polar bears are one of the biggest conservation success stories in the world, " says Drikus Gissing, wildlife director for the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
One of the first, and certainly one of the finest examples of this kind of community-based conservation is found just a short way to the south of Kalama, at the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (LWC).
"This is a great day in the history of animal conservation throughout the world and we are proud of the achievement, " Assam's chief wildlife warden MC Malakar said.
Jersey Post said it would donate 10% of sales of the stamps to the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.
An inaugural symposium was organized in 2010 by the Born Free Foundation and the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) of the University of Oxford and to date there have been three further international meetings in the UK, China, and Australia.
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"The new wave of organised wildlife trade crime with heavily armed groups of poachers acting cross-borders is jeopardising conservation successes we've had in the past, " he said.
He has ushered in a new era of conservation for our land, our water and our wildlife.
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"This is definitely lightning quick, " said John Kostyack, executive director of the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Conservation and Global Warming initiative.
This term is central to CITES as it refers to the export of wildlife products that does not undermine the conservation of the species.
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