The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study pointed to the ample financial returns of investment in protecting natural areas such as mangroves, tropical forests and grasslands.
Although the rinderpest vaccine can provide lifelong protection, it also poses a challenge. Because it contains the live virus
and there is general agreement that the next global climate deal-under negotiation next week in Copenhagen-should include a forest protection plan.
Although the vaccine can provide lifelong protection, it has caused also some problems. Because it contains the live virus
The broad survey will provide the basis for setting environmental protection targets in the next five-year plan of economic initiatives that begins in 2011,
says Zhang Lijun, China's vice-minister of environmental protection. The census found that agriculture was more damaging to China's waterways than manufacturing.
Vice-minister Zhang Lijun says that the environmental protection targets for the next five-year plan are being deliberated,
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has denied endangered-species protection to the American pika (Ochotona princeps.
It would have been only the second mammal other than the polar bear to be afforded such protection explicitly because of climate change.
Support for forest protection programmes was one of the few successes during last December's climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark,
During the meetings, countries agreed that developed countries would financially support poor nations in protecting their forests through an initiative called REDD-plus Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, with added benefits for local
Despite the two nations'poor track records in elephant protection, conservationists are worried that the proposals could be accepted because of an ongoing CITES debate over how best to manage elephant populations.
which is needed to sustain protection programmes. Others worry that one-off sales risk stimulating the illegal ivory trade,
Marine protection: The british government has announced that it will create a huge marine reserve around the Chagos islands, an archipelago of more than 50 islands in The british Indian ocean Territory.
The 1 april ruling is of wider significance as it could establish greater legal protection for others wanting to debate scientific or medical issues.
which incorporates eight genes conferring herbicide tolerance and insect protection. If farmers don't switch to Roundup Ready 2,
The finer details of areas to be preserved (see'Protection plan')will be chosen by biologists and logging companies.
which includes most of the boreal forests earmarked for protection, contains approximately 50%of the estimated global belowground organic carbon pool,
with concerns that the ruling could limit the protection companies enjoy on their European patents. Nature explains more.
claiming that the imported soya meal contained the DNA sequence that it had patent protection for in Europe.
which Monsanto had gained patent protection in the first place. Why does it matter? The decision reflects a wider question about the scope and strength of DNA patents:
which it was patented originally known as purpose-bound protection. The ruling is being viewed as the first test of the European union's biotechnology directive,
and on what protection that patent enjoyed. Lawyers disagree about the wider impact of the court ruling,
The protection conferred by a patent on a product containing or consisting of genetic information shall extend to all material...
in order to clarify and harmonize decisions on purpose-bound patent protection across the European union and to remove any doubts within the biotech industry.
There will be a number of patentees nervously casting an eye over the other independent claims of their patents in order to gauge the degree of protection that remains for their invention
However, most patents incorporate other legal claims that could be used to enforce protection on products containing genetic material without resorting solely to claims over DNA sequences as Monsanto had to do, notes Martin Maclean of intellectual-property lawyers
As for the wider impacts on Monsanto, the company stated that overall patent protection of the company's Roundup Ready soya bean was not at issue,
they met with the Civil Protection in L'aquila to assess the risk of a major shock.
After the meeting, a Civil Protection official (who was indicted also) told the press that there was no immediate danger.
a year's extension of the subsidies and protections granted under current law. But they had been hoping for a longer extension,
The conference also reached a historic agreement on forest protection, and advanced programmes to help the developing world adopt clean energy
Patient protection US President Barack Obama has asked his bioethics commission to review the recent discovery that US government-funded scientists intentionally infected subjects with syphilis in a study in Guatemala in the 1940s (see Nature 467,645;
more than two years after the species was given a protection status of'threatened'by the US Endangered Species Act.
2010), it would be the single biggest forest-protection deal ever, and has been portrayed by participants as a model of cooperation.
and environmentalists adamant that far-reaching protections must be enforced, questions remain over how much forest will actually be preserved.
providing food and coastline protection, and said that they can rebound if communities stop unsustainable practices.
but environmental campaigners such as the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, bemoaned the fact that politicians had lifted protection rather than waiting for due process under the Endangered Species Act.
vice-minister of environmental protection, said on 28 march at a conference in Beijing on the rural environment.
This is the first time that the protection of the rural environment has been included in the country's five-year budget plan.
This is wonderful news for the course of environmental protection in China says Zhang. China's rural areas produce more than 9 billion tonnes of waste water and 280 million tonnes of household rubbish a year.
The ministry is set to promote public awareness and participation in environmental protection in rural areas, and performance in curbing rural pollution will be one of the criteria by
There are also plans to set up long-term monitoring networks to ensure sustained protection. As most existing environmental laws and guidelines are geared towards industrial pollution,
the ministry is drafting new laws on soil protection and the reduction and treatment of livestock pollution.
In addition to laws on soil protection and livestock management, regulations on the use of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides the use of which is much higher per hectare in China than in developed countries are needed urgently,
the laureates signed a memorandum stating that economic and social development should go hand in hand with environmental protection.
Coming up 14 18 may The science and politics of protecting marine life is the focus of the 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress in Victoria,
otherwise confer protection against radiation damage, and that this molecular trade-off is shaping bird populations around the former nuclear power plant.
One of the team, Anders M ¸ller from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, donned a radiation-protection suit to make four bird-watching trips between 2006 and 2009 to the Red
Non-governmental organizations had high hopes that the Brazzaville meeting would end in a firm pact for forest protection.
A national poll conducted in June by environmental groups found that 85%of Brazilians rate forest protection above agricultural production.
after it lost patent protection on 30 november. The drug has brought in more than US$100 billion in sales for the pharma company,
It loses patent protection from 30 november. Source: Reuters, IMS Health Â
How mammoths lost the extinction lottery: Nature Newswoolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and other large animals driven to extinction
He says that this proves the value of protecting such secondary forests, as well as pristine forests.
Forest suspense Final voting on a law that would relax forest protection rules in the Brazilian Amazon was delayed last week until March 2012,
and protection for the lands that they manage.""Rio was about devolution of governance but communities need ownership to protect their resources,
An analysis from CIFOR, published last October, found that 42.5 million hectares of forest covered by the moratorium are protected already under Indonesian law, with only 22.5 million hectares receiving extra protection.
Laurance does commend the Indonesian government for protecting 11.5 million hectares of forests growing on carbon-rich peatland.
But last week, the lower house of Brazil s National Congress passed a bill that observers say could drastically reduce forest protection.
scale back forest protections along rivers and hills, give state and local governments more authority over forests,
to increase protection to regions such as the Coral sea. The government expects the reserves to become law at the end of this year, after a public consultation.
Last week the country s Ministry of Environmental Protection and the National Development and Reform Commission released data showing that
President prunes forest reformsbrazil s vast forests lost some legal protections last week, but less than environmentalists had feared.
They also eliminate protections for steep slopes and allow landowners to meet some of their obligations to restore forest with permanent plantations of exotic trees,
Health act upheld The US Supreme court on 28 Â June voted narrowly in favour of upholding the Patient Protection
did not fare any better than would have been expected had forest fragments of the same size lacked such protection.
after years of pressure from the powerful agricultural lobby to weaken forest protection. The bill was vetoed partially by President Dilma Rousseff,
On 19 Â September, the consumer protection group Consumers Union, based in Yonkers, New york, and the US Food and Drug Administration released reports that found inorganic arsenic in rice products.
is the key to environmental protection in the long run. So I believe we should pursue what I call a"No Regrets policy steps that will lead to lower emissions,
and enforcing strong environmental protections that ensure all energy development activity is conducted in a safe and responsible manner.
and environmental protection can go hand-in-hand if the government focuses on transparency and fairness instead of seeking to pick winners
India s forest area in doubtto judge from India s official surveys, the protection of its forests is a success. Somehow,
among other things, would have removed forest protection along rivers and slopes, and would have allowed lawbreakers to receive a blanket amnesty.
The country s National Congress initially passed a bill to roll back forest protection in April
Kevin Wolf/APENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYDEPARTING: Lisa Jackson On entering office in 2009, Jackson (pictured) laid the groundwork for climate regulations by formally declaring carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
Perciasepe, currently deputy administrator at the environment agency, developed a watershed-protection programme while previously at the agency under Bill clinton.
and protection and health research in the region. Source: MUNICH REAROUND 9, 500 people lost their lives last year in natural disasters less than one-tenth of the ten-year average.
Without that protection, companies say, they have little recourse to prevent someone from buying seed
For accurate billing and theft protection, Gingko needs to control that use, so it is developing
and plants has bolstered protection for a number of species. Besides agreeing to clamp down more strongly on the trade in ivory and rhino horn,
and Flora (CITES) took the unprecedented step of granting protection to sharks and various species of tropical timber tree in their final vote today.
Enforcement of rhino protection is also to be strengthened, with Mozambique and Vietnam now required to toughen up their controls on trade in horns.
which restricts trade in species not at immediate risk of extinction but in need of protection.
But rising emissions from agriculture and industry industry threaten to offset some of the gains from forest protection.
along with then-provost Vistasp Karbhari, sought police protection for themselves from biologist Amy Bishop, without warning or protecting others.
Mucorice-ARP1 would have to be eaten regularly to ensure protection. Once you have engineered the rice,
says Wan Fanghao, an ecologist at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Institute of Plant Protection in Beijing.
and where protection needs to be increased. Again, acoustics could be one way to approach this,
The country is considering loosening patent protections to improve access to cheaper, generic drugs, in line with moves in India and Brazil in recent years (see Nature 500,
a population resurgent after 40 years of protection under the Endangered Species Act. More than 700 bears now roam the region, up from 136 in 1975,
After two years, a district-court judge restored protection, citing concerns about the declining whitebark pine and its effect on the bears diet.
Wolf plan flawed The US government s proposal to weaken protection for grey wolves (Canis lupus) is not based on good science,
As a veterinarian and advocate for increased protection for wolves in Minnesota I was glad to see an article that decries the state of wolf conservation and management here.
We can start protecting at least parts of the ones that are still thriving today that might disappear tomorrow all without having to find a rare figurehead species. The longer we hold onto our current figure heads as the reason to save
and such are given special protections and priorities because god forbid if something cute and cuddly gets run over by a bulldozer.
There wasn't legal protection for the Wright brothers when they made that first plane he says.
Protection against mustard gas proved more difficult than against either chlorine or phosgene gas. The use of mustard gas-sometimes referred to as Yperite-also proved to have mixed benefits.
Protection Against Gas The types of protection initially handed out to the troops around Ypres following the first use of chlorine in April 1915 were primitive in the extreme. 100000 wads of cotton pads were manufactured quickly
and gets vaccinated is it the innate system providing protection or the vaccine (vaccine supporters assume the vaccine)?
but these have failed repeatedly to correlate with protection (meaning blood work on the few occasions it is checked will reveal antibodies from the vaccine present
and don't have a vested interest in making money or protecting the image of their product.
Officially known as the Farmer Assurance Provision has been derided by opponents of biotech lobbying as the âÂ#Âoemonsanto Protection Actã¢Â# as it would strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting
Currently the GMOS on the market today have been given genetic traits to provide protection from pests tolerance to pesticides
It is the immune system of the individual that does the work of protection Give that whatever spin your heart desires
During his State of the Union in February he promised to come through with executive actions to reduce pollution increase protection against the damage caused by climate change and transition us to cleaner energy sources.
Most plants that have spines like cacti use them for protection but it's theorized that Puya chilensis actually uses them for hunting.
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Rocky terrain would have provided more protection than forests since many large African carnivores can't climb.
What's odd is that it has literally no protection against getting eaten: it has a mouth
With the protections afforded telecomms and with Monsanto having purchased the Dept of agriculture the bees are dead already.
On the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection's six-point scale with a six being unsuitable even for industrial use different sections of the Huangpu rate at a four or five.
The embryos within the eggs were surrounded by three fluid-filled membranes that provide nourishment protection
THIS JOE BUSHES PROTECTORATE ASKED THIS PIUS ITALIAN VATICAN POPE FOR PROTECTION CEASER! PILATE HAD HAGS!
it means that Apple is covering its bases giving itself legal protection for these ideas just in case the company does ever want to make anything like this.
but definitely important to remember that this is not a preview for a product--it's a legal document offering intellectual property protection.
In all of these colonize Mars discussions of late nobody brings up radiation protection. Mars has no magnetic field so that means no protection from solar radiation.
This article seems to make support for Spacex or some other private company to establish humanity on Mars by illustrating cost.
i propose temporary housing units that can move on six to eight legs. 6-10 of lead in the walls for protection from radiation.
which aren treated t with chemicals and other additives for protection. AST has been nominated (along with 16 other contestants) for a Securing Water for Food award by the U s. Agency for International Development.
and regulations put in force for the protection of the public health. A number of living stations for employees were arranged along the railroad
and capital will throw every protection around employees for selfish reasons. Great commercial agricultural and industrial development immediately follows new and important lines of transportation;
or their protections are enforced not well. Protections are often inadequate or are violated flagrantly usually without any consequences the environmental group WWF noted.
Illegal logging has also become a way of life and source of income for many communities they added.
although not from all other species that have ivory nor from tusks removed from mammoths being extinct they cannot be provided any legal protection.
Our working hypothesis which we plan on testing is that the Cyclosa makes a decoy spider that is larger than the size of spiders Pseudostigmatids will take thereby gaining some protection from being eaten by these spider specialists says Ola Fincke a collaborating researcher at the University of Oklahoma
Spreading the message of environmental protection can be a forest's friend while spreading knowledge of technology can make powerful efficient machinery available that harvests forests more efficiently.
and cost-effective solution to managing the herd and protecting the Island's resources. Beginning in 2009 the Conservancy's scientists injected the female bison with porcine zona pellucida (PZP) a contraceptive that had been used for fertility control in zoos wild horses and white tail deer.
#Saving Fijis coral reefs linked to forest conservation upstreamthe health of coral reefs offshore depend on the protection of forests near the sea according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society that outlines the importance of terrestrial protected areas
In 2008 a national Protected Area Committee was created by the Fiji government in part to achieve the goals of protecting 20 percent of the country's land and 30 percent of its coastal waters by the year 2020.
We're pleased that the results of our study confirm that the forests that the committee was considering for protection can offer significant downstream benefits to coral reefs said Dr. Stacy Jupiter Fiji Country Program Director
We therefore recommended to the committee to add some additional forests to their national register of priority places for protection.
That's why engineered insect protection may offer even greater commercial value and why extended tests were necessary to demonstrate that the resistance genes would still be expressed more than a decade after planting.
Additionally the bill provides civil-liability protection for those who administer epinephrine in an emergency.
and the protection of our natural resources he said. I began to wonder if there was a better way.
In issuing this statement the academy takes the same position as the American Medical Association the American Veterinary Medical Association the International Association for Food Protection the National Environmental Health Association the U s
The research underscores the importance of protecting old forests to maintain the tree diversity for which the tropics are famous.
#Better protection for mangroves with models for successful seedling establishmentseedlings of mangroves do not have an easy time to get established.
Worldwide today approximately 5000 pesticides are utilized as substances for plant protection and for pest control.
and support has been provided for their protection. Such areas include the Onezhskoye Pomorye National park on the Onega Peninsula in the Arkhangelsk Region the Kalevala National park in the Republic of Karelia and the Lapland Forest Nature Reserve in the Murmansk Region.
On the map established protected areas are divided into three categories based on the degree of protection they have been accorded.
#Urban sprawl threatens water quality, climate protection, and land conservation gainsa groundbreaking study by Harvard university's Harvard Forest and the Smithsonian Institution reveals that
We know from decades of research that forests are more than a collection of trees they are'living infrastructure'that works 24-hours a day to provide climate protection clean water local wood products and natural areas for people
and should be prioritized for protection. Widespread concerns over the fate of honey bees and other pollinators have led to increased efforts to understand which species are the most effective pollinators
The Government Resolution on Water Protection Policy Outlines to 2015 sets the bar high for nutrient abatement.
Suitable and sufficient food sources for the hungry larvae and protection against predators and parasites are important selection criteria for the best oviposition substrates.
#Protecting vital crops in Chinaevidence of disease in oilseed rape crops across China and how it may spread has been mapped by researchers led by the University of Hertfordshire--providing new strategic information on crop protection to the Chinese government.
which promotes the protection of rare and endangered species. The Bochum team propagate the species and pass them on to other botanic gardens worldwide.
Implications for Cheetah Conservation researchers from the University's School of Anthropology and Conservation studied the effect guarding dogs have on the protection of farm animals across South africa.
and strengthened site management to ensure Lumbini's protection. These discoveries are very important to better understand the birthplace of The buddha said Ram Kumar Shrestha Nepal's minister of culture tourism and civil aviation.
and it was found to provide better protection against infections by Mannheimia haemolytica bacterium than imported vaccines.
which unlike the imported vaccines has been demonstrated to provide protection against bacterium infection in the small ruminants like goats and sheep.
Therefore STVAC7 was developed using local isolated bacterium that was found to be able to provide protection against infections by Mannheimia haemolytica bacterium A2 A7 and A9.
This was proven to be said better protection Prof Zamri who graduated with his Doctor of Veterinary medicine degree from UPM before obtaining his Phd from Liverpool.
High tunnels can offer many benefits for delicate vegetable crops including protection from environmental stresses such as hail frost excessive rainfall and high wind.
The USDA has obtained a Plant Variety Protection Certificate for the'Tigerpaw-NR'parent of'Carotex-312'.'
WCS recently launched 96 Elephants a public outreach campaign aiming to bolster elephant protection and educate the public about ivory trade and consumption.
Killing ticks from insideingeborg Klingen Head of Section of Invertebrate Pests at Bioforsk Plant Health and Plant Protection Division and her group are currently conducting field trials with BIPESCO 5
weight gainonions a key ingredient in recipes around the globe come in a tearless version that scientists are now reporting could pack health benefits like its close relative garlic which is renowned for protecting against heart disease.
Their results suggest that trees at drier sites buy insurance for their leaves in the form of beefed-up ant protection
Scale insects are the middlemen in this protection racket: through the scale insects the trees indirectly pay a carbon fee in the form of sugar-rich sap that is distilled into honeydew to the ants in exchange for guard duty.
In the absence of adequate protection against freezing they could become victims of their own too-flexible adaptation--and freeze to death in a late frost in the spring.
if earthworms are increasing that physical protection of carbon. Land use historyrecent studies in the Northern Forest have shown that land use changes--like agricultural abandonment
The researchers hypothesized that Ige might be required for protection against a lethal sting and that allergies are an extreme and maladaptive example of this type of defense.
To determine whether Ige antibodies were required for this protection the team tested mice with three types of mutations:
In all three groups of mutant mice pre-immunization with a low dose of bee venom did not confer protection against a lethal dose suggesting that the protection depends on Ige signaling and mast cell activation.
These properties provide widespread protection against infection. It's likely that TNC is acting in concert with other anti-HIV factors in breast milk and further research should explore this Permar said.
but sustainability studies are needed at population level to insure the protection of this beautiful species. Dracaena kaweesakii is thought to be endangered through having a limited distribution destruction of limestone for concrete and extraction of trees for gardens comments Dr Wilkin
One of the breastmilk-fed infants treated with B. lactis developed NEC early in the trial Underwood said indicating that B. lactis may not be as effective as B. infantis in protecting against NEC though the study was designed not to answer that question.
Rosen adds that DIM also provided protection whether the first injection was administered 24 hours before or up to 24 hours after radiation exposure.
Nano-thin films of hexagonal boron nitride protect materials from oxidizingatomically thin sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have the handy benefit of protecting
Lou said ultrathin h-BN protection might find a place in turbines jet engines oil exploration
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