conservation concern

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meaningsofconservationandconcern

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conservation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.səˈveɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌkɑːn.sɚˈveɪ.ʃən/
the protection of plants and animals, natural areas, and interesting and important structures and buildings, especially from the damaging effects of ...
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concern
noun
uk
/kənˈsɜːn/us
/kənˈsɝːn/
a worried or nervous feeling about something, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofconservationandconcernfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This study increases our knowledge of this understudied species about which there isconservationconcern.
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Populations ofconservationconcernusually have small effective population sizes and hence a more rapid rate of inbreeding, meaning that deleterious alleles may not be purged efficiently.
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A broad brush approach may penalise legitimate fisheries of noconservationconcern, but a finely targeted approach will inevitably be much more complex to administer.
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While we must avoid illegal or unsustainable trade, we should also ensure that parties' resources are directed towards issues of realconservationconcern.
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As a result three consultancies, each dealing with discrete areas of environmental orconservationconcern, have taken place.
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First, it would need to place a duty on government to define species and habitat priorities, and targets for those priorities, based on analyses ofconservationconcern.
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Bobcats are well adapted to urban development and are not aconservationconcern.
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Several species have become the focus of increasingconservationconcernfollowing widespread declines in abundance.
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It is ofconservationconcernonly on the northern edge of its range and can be seen in grassland or forest.
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Their large range and presence within several protected areas have led them to be classified as being of lowconservationconcern.
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Within this small range it is found only infrequently, making it ofconservationconcern.
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American red squirrels are abundant and not ofconservationconcernthroughout much of their range.
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Since the two species sometimes hybridise, there is a seriousconservationconcern.
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The species is found over a large area is generally considered to be of lowconservationconcern.
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Nantucket serviceberry is ofconservationconcernin the wild.
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Of the 16 subspecies, eight coastal forms are ofconservationconcern.
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Most pocket gopher species are relatively common and not ofconservationconcern.
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Invasive species have become a greatconservationconcernfor resource managers.
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Due to its highly restricted distribution and shallow inshore habitat, this species meritsconservationconcern.
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It is however listed as being ofconservationconcern, partly because relatively little is so far known about it.
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