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That prospect spurred the U.S. government for the first time to slash fishing quotas for certain sharks in Atlantic waters in April. It also moved conservationists to put seven shark species on the IUCN-World Conservation Union's Red List of threatened species and prompted calls for even stricter safeguards...
With matching-grant money from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO), a conservation program funded by the state lottery, they will use land-preservation tools called conservation easements to pay ranchers for the development rights to their property, then place those rights in permanent trusts. By selling development rights instead of the...
So he and Lohr hatched their plan, mapping the valley from Gunnison to Crested Butte and pinpointing what was most at risk. Studying conservation easements, they hit on the idea of paying ranchers for development rights. "We said, 'These preservation tools are great, but we've got to find funding...
Hundreds of thousands of African elephants were slaughtered in the 1980s by ivory poachers, leading to a 1989 ban on international trade in the precious white stuff. But in southern Africa the species is far from endangered; indeed, the area is now overpopulated with elephants. Two weeks ago, TIME reported...
These arguments are terribly frustrating to officials in Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana, who believe they are being punished, not rewarded, for their excellent conservation record. "This opposition," reads a document issued at a recent meeting of conservation ministers in Windhoek, "comes mainly from people far removed from the realities of...