1.   Cheap oil has slowed conservation efforts.

2.   Colonies of seabirds, which are used as guides by local fishermen in Kiribati, Tuvalu and French Polynesia, are also to be the target of conservation efforts.

3.   A new Energy Savings Trust, to be funded initially by British Gas, has been set up to support energy conservation efforts.

4.   Also complicating conservation efforts is more typical resistance among farmers whose livestock has been eaten by tigers, or who covet forestry jobs that conservation would restrict.

5.   Analysts credit new power supplies, a state-led conservation effort and federal price controls for averting what many had feared would be a catastrophic summer of scarcity.

6.   And aquarium scientists have partnered with local biologists to save and rehabilitate ill and orphaned sea turtles, otters and other animals and educate residents on conservation efforts.

7.   And, proponents hope the compensation will help pay for the conservation efforts.

8.   At the time, Vice President Dick Cheney said blackouts were a certainty in California and was dismissive of the conservation effort.

9.   Based on federal handling of other endangered species, Baum believes the government would simply accelerate state conservation efforts without damaging industries.

10.   A joint U.S.-Canada conservation effort would be welcome, according to James Pipkin, chief American fisheries negotiator.