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
  • However, there has been pushback from conservationists who say the project will hurt the land.
    Irving Mejia-Hilario, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shand was a travel writer and conservationist, and the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2022
  • For much of his life, the Swedish conservationist Johan Eklöf has studied bats, work often best done when both the scientist and his subjects are in the dark.
    Danny Heitman, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Aloha Heart follows the story of a conservationist who travels to Hawaii for her best friend’s wedding.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 29 July 2023
  • As with wolves and bison, Progressive Era efforts to save the bears were pushed by conservationists, like Theodore Roosevelt, who were also hunters.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • But the controversial and chilling demon appeared to fade out of the painting over the years, as multiple conservationists worked on it.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • By sedating the elephant that leads a herd and fitting it with a 30-pound GPS collar, conservationists can alert villagers if the animals tread near.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The Australian conservationist and zoo owner shared a throwback snap of her and Steve Irwin to celebrate three decades since their wedding day.
    Giovana Gelhoren, PEOPLE.com, 4 June 2022
  • In the clip, DeGeneres travels into the woods with her wife, Portia de Rossi, and a group of conservationists to observe a family of gorillas.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That’s where conservationists and wildlife agencies can come in, with private-public partnerships to get those solutions in place on the ground.
    Ben Long, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • His father was a soil conservationist and an Army reservist.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Expecting such resistance, the conservationists were ready with the idea of a hybrid approach.
    Koba Ryckewaert, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • To meet restoration goals, conservationists need millions of seeds.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Charles is an ardent lifelong conservationist who has been warning about the looming threat of climate change and species extinction for decades.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The 1988 murder of Chico Mendes, Brazil’s most famous conservationist at the time, helped spark an environmental movement in the country to protect the Amazon.
    New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • Future conservationists of all ages will be drawn to the Wildlife Explorers Basecamp’s mix of learning and play at the desert dunes, wild woods, marsh meadows and rainforest habitats.
    Helen Purcell Montag, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2023
  • As a Swedish conservationist, Johan Eklöf urges us to think of light pollution as more than a nuisance that obscures our starry skies.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2023

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