How to Use conservationist in a Sentence
conservationist
noun-
Those are the exact fish conservationists want to keep in the water.
— Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2023 -
But conservationists hope to unveil a new plan by the end of the year that would reopen access.
— Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023 -
For two decades, Delia Owens worked as a wildlife conservationist in Africa.
— Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022 -
In the last 30 years, conservationists think the bears’ numbers have dropped by 30 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
— Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023 -
This new award will honor a wildlife conservationist under the age of 40.
— Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Oct. 2022 -
The conservationist had moved to Goodland, Florida, with just his dog and a boat and trailer hitched to his truck.
— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023 -
Shelling out tens of millions is the price of admission for this new breed of conservationist.
— Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2021 -
Scientists and conservationists hope to ensure sharks and their neighbors get by—and not just by the skin of their teeth.
— Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 Dec. 2019 -
The lead conservationist is a large, fluffy ground squirrel known as a marmot.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2022 -
However, there has been pushback from conservationists who say the project will hurt the land.
— Irving Mejia-Hilario, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023 -
Being the daughter of wildlife conservationists, Grace is a friend to wildlife and no stranger to adventure.
— Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 23 June 2024 -
Camera traps in a forest in western Thailand have captured footage of tigers in the area for the first time in four years, a conservationist said.
— Washington Post, 29 July 2020 -
Jonathan White, a conservationist who raised money to help fund the survey project, was aboard one of the vessels for part of the research period.
— New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021 -
Jane Goodall is one of the world’s most renowned conservationists and foremost experts on chimpanzees.
— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024 -
Closing of the park and the property sale caused an outcry from the park’s users, conservationists and politicians who didn’t want to see the loss of a public recreation venue.
— Steve Brown, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023 -
Arizona's rivers:Along the San Pedro, a conservationist's dream of restoring habitat has dimmed What is the best use of public lands?
— Joe Duhownik, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2022 -
The two-piece, split-cane rod was handmade in Scotland and designed by the legendary Lee Wulff, one of the sport’s greatest teachers and conservationists.
— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 25 Sep. 2024 -
For conservationists, this lack of fear engenders pity: The wolf is too stupid to fear the hunter’s gun or the poisoned trap, and must be saved from its own inability to be afraid.
— Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023 -
And though the species is in decline, conservationists hold out hope management efforts in the Badger State could be key to its survival.
— Paul Smith, Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Kardashian changed into the gown at the museum with the help of a conservationist from Ripley’s.
— Sam Reed, Glamour, 3 May 2022 -
Along with the support of conservationists, the new legal safeguards allowed gray seal numbers to rebound in the 1990s.
— Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024 -
That aside, today’s conservationists tend to think that plants from elsewhere are always a bad idea.
— The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 -
The cinematography of these early scenes helps viewers enter the world of the turtles that emerge at night and the conservationists who watch over them.
— Juma Adero, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023 -
But the world is changing so quickly that scientists and conservationists are struggling to make sense of it.
— Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2020 -
For the past few years, Devlin, one of the world’s most in-demand stage designers, has been moonlighting as a conservationist.
— Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2022 -
The 85-year-old conservationist and photographer has spent her whole life in the company of sharks.
— Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2021 -
Shand was a travel writer and conservationist, and the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
— Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2022 -
The founder, Rudy Roeslein, was a conservationist who saw a way to apply his production system to process biogas.
— Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Nov. 2021 -
Pygmy hippos have been bred successfully in zoos, but some conservationists say there should be more focus on preserving the species in the wild.
— Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024 -
So, how does a congressional candidate from Virginia end up on the southern border in an all-out brawl with a butterfly conservationist?
— Outside Online, 9 Oct. 2024
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