Adapted from the Dynamic Baselines infographic with permission from The Nature Conservancy. Full size image Principle 3.2: NCS provide durable mitigation NCS must also provide durable mitigation, meaning that additional climate benefits persist over time. Durability is defined in terms of different ...
How The Nature Conservancy Works Updated: Apr 16, 2024 Nature has to be preserved for the future. Vincent Pommeyrol / Getty Images Key Takeaways The Nature Conservancy, since 1951, has protected over 11 million acres in the U.S. and over 60 million acres globally, focusing on preserving...
Social and economic statistics of Paddock and farms Table 2 presents an overview of the paddock’s characteristics. On average, the age of the household heads is 52.18 years, with a standard deviation of 13.42. Additionally, only 15% of the sampled farms had female household heads. Table 2...
(Such numbers are misleading, however, in that some areas are protected only on paper as their habitats continue to be destroyed.) These statistics lead naturally to the question of how many species will be saved if, say, 4.5 percent of the hot spot land worldwide is protected. Will only...
To calculate the average value of all driving factors within the boundary of each nature reserve, we used the Zonal Statistics as Table function in ArcGIS10.5 software (ESRI, 2017). Bro and Smilde, 2014 R Development Core Team, 2020
There are no public statistics for the amount of dunnage that arrives at or exists in North American ports, the volume that is destroyed, the length of time between seizure or offloading and destruction, the incidence of findings of non-compliance, or the final destination of offloaded dunnage...
When Jackson “Jack” Marubu, The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC’s) project lead for the Maasai Mara, first went to the Maasai Mara, the area was characterized by conflict. “Maasai community members would meet with conservation agencies and government authorities and tourism operators, and the con...
Bureau of Labor Statistics- The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures and provides access to data on labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making. ...
Using long-term statistics in the Urmia Lake and the relationship between quantitative and qualitative water indicators, the water level of 1274.1 m (AMSL) was chosen as the ecological level of the lake so that the balance of these three indicators remained within the allowable range. The study...
For instance, managing health and ammunition in shooting games or your avatar’s statistics in an RPG game. The organic nature of resource management in video games has offered a new educational tool to teach sustainability or natural resource management (Barreteau et al. 2007a, 2007b; Bots ...