The article focuses on the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) State and Local Assistance program of the National Park Service. It states that the program has made over 40,000 grants for localities and states to plan, acquire, and develop outdoor recreation spaces. It says that the ...
Water conservation in China, for instance, has put great attention to the foundations and primary goals of restricting waterways. The benefits of putting resources into premium protection are largely overlooked. For example, only about 3.3% of concerns in conserving water safety will be devoted to ...
Customers who don’t meet the conservation goal will see a surcharge of up to 5% on their bills starting April 1. Last summer, California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the state’s nearly 40 million residents to voluntarily reduce water use by 15% this year, but data released...
K. Jin of the World Wildlife Fund contributed graphical illustrations. We are most grateful for their important contributions. L.M. acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation (grant nos. CBET-2144169 and RISE- 2108196) and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (grant ...
The Soil and Water Outcomes Fund provides payment to farmers for environmental outcomes that result from implementing conservation practices.
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Similarly, Krishna and Uphoff (2002) associated social capital with better development outcomes resulting from collective management of social conservation projects and water resources in Rajasthan, India. Further, in the area of biodiversity conservation, features of social capital such as trust, common...
(Salvelinus alpinus), and an Arctic char × brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) hybrid were cultured within a partial-reuse nursery system (for 4+ years) and a fully-recirculating growout system (for 2+ years) that were located at the Conservation Fund Freshwater Institute (Shepherdstown, WV)....
(Water-related ecosystems). Although environmental water needs for GDEs are increasingly being protected under Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, and considered under sustainable water policies, such as Australia’s National Water Initiative, the European Union’s Water ...
This initiative has the potential to promote watershed conservation in the upper mountainous reaches of the basin, where most peasant communities are located, in order to benefit downstream urban users and other economic activities such as agriculture and mining. ANA also highlighted a water fund ...