Sentences with phrase «many other habitats»

Generally students meet for two hours a week to explore the woods, ponds, and other habitats.

«This includes the protection of endangered Atlantic sturgeon, oyster beds, and other habitats during and after construction of the New NY Bridge.»

«There are more animals there than in all the other habitats,» Widder says.

In many places «habitat banks» are being set up to allow conservationists and financiers to invest in protecting areas, earning «offset credits» that can be banked for future sale to developers wanting to exploit some other habitat.

Like other habitat specialists, Sungazers appear to be restricted to this area not only because of physical barriers such as large rivers and mountains, but also because of the unique climactic niche in this region.

Particularly in Africa and the Middle East, high fertility rates are leading to profound local environmental pressures - water stress, land degradation, over-hunting and fishing, falling farm sizes, deforestation and other habitat destruction - thereby worsening the grave economic challenges these countries face.

Many other habitats were overrun by introduced pigs and rats.

A number of ladybird species within Britain are largely confined to coniferous woodland and it appears that such habitats are more resistant to invasion by the harlequin ladybird than other habitats.

About half of the species of monkeys in South America are threatened, said Lynch Alfaro, who has conducted field work in the Amazon and other habitats in South America for 19 years.

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have risen from ~ 280 ppm during pre-industrial times to 407 ppm today as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and the removal of other habitats that sequester carbon.

Cat towers, scratching posts and other habitats come pre-treated with catnip.

Aquariums are very heavy compared to other habitats, and plan to handle yours carefully as even a short drop can cause cracks or complete breakage.

Other habitat variables (e.g. mild fire scars, riparian habitats) did not improve model performance.

This is great for marine, brackish - water and African Rift Lake environments, but it is certainly not recommended for any other habitats.

With solid walls an aquarium will contain more of the smells that come with owning a furry little creature than any other habitat options.

Araucaria Ecotours is an enjoyable zoologist - designed introduction to Australia's wildlife while travelling from Brisbane to visit mountains, beaches, rainforests, wetlands and other habitats and wildlife parks combining an enhanced understanding of our wildlife with wonderful scenery, great meals and very special accommodation.

We use environmental law to protect oceans, forests, and other habitats as well as all people.

It's wise, given the human ability to plan ahead to some extent, to start considering how to protect Arctic areas that are most likely to sustain thriving populations as other habitat shrinks.

Global warming will increase some habitats and their speciesholding capacity, just as warming reduces other habitats.

Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning policy and other measures to create high quality landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to climate change.

The Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (CBD 2014), while finding some improvements in temperate and developed parts of the world and the ongoing enlargement of the protected - area estate, also presented evidence of climate - induced effects on biodiversity; the increased spread of diseases and invasive biota; declines in species living in forests, reefs, and many other habitats; and the conversion of ecosystems supporting many kinds of life to ones with singular human uses.

We use environmental law to protect oceans, forests, and other habitats as well as all people.

Not exact matches

«By observing someone in their natural habitat we can determine how often they get interrupted when they are trying to do taxes, payroll, or perform some other task,» Williams says.

Eventually, Bigelow would like to take the earnings from habitat lease arrangements and reinvest them, in partnership with NASA and other companies, in a program for lunar operations.

The other aspect of the White Spruce decision which reveals a policy vacuum is the setting of the offset multiplier at 2:1 (i.e., twice as much habitat must be restored as will be impacted by the mitigated project).

If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.

The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.

Various permits are also being advanced with state and federal agencies — such as water discharge, wetlands, air quality, water use and fish habitat permits and other approvals that will give them right - of - way access.

Tracy has educated the likes of Coldwell Bankers, Halstead, Citi Habitats, and developed partnerships with many loan professionals from banks like Chase, M&T, HSBC, TD Bank, amongst others.

PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and habitats, among a multitude of other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.

Every time that the swallows and other birds fly south, they find their habitat more and more deteriorated.

Our service of wealth hastens the pollution of the Earth, the exhaustion of resources, the elimination of habitat for other species, the degradation of water, soil, and air.

Furthermore, at the same time that we undermine our own future, we are threatening or destroying the habitats of other species at rates unparalleled in natural history.

At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.

But the other reason is that fossilization is a very rare event and only takes place in a few types of habitats (ones in which oxygen is absent for example).

The animals we kill for food and whose habitat we steal for farmland and housing and other development could just as well consider all of humanity evil.

No other species can alter its habitat with the deliberation that the human species can.

In Schumacher's view, goals of agriculture should be directed «to keep man in touch with living nature, of which he is and remains a highly vulnerable part; to humanize and ennoble man's wider habitat; and to bring forth the foodstuffs and other materials which are needed for a becoming life.

Living within a crowded and delicately balanced economic, social, and ecological system, we have become vitally dependent on each other, and on our collective habitat.

The bottom includes the other species whose habitat is daily reduced and the domesticated animals who are brutally treated so that our meat will be cheap and tender.

He was speaking philosophically about the plight of man; that while birds have nests and other animals have their natural habitats, there is no natural place for the children of man to rest their heads.

[94] They also encourage the employment of habitat restriction and modification as a means of wildlife damage control, as could be done through fencing or other forms of habitat modification.

In addition to habitat destruction, the disappearance of species is associated with other forms of deterioration of the environment.

In many years the numbers of inhabitants of a region may be well below the carrying capacity because of unfavorable weather or other unfavorable features of the environment of the organism in the habitat.

But declines are occurring in the absence of destruction of habitats, suggesting other causes such as pollution from pesticides, acid rain and increases in ultraviolet exposure or even change in climate (Blaustein & Wake 1990).

But it is also the challenge that we have moral obligations which extend even beyond the human community to other living things and their habitats.

Researchers point to things like the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and other increased challenges as the cause of the extinction.

In other locations the chiltepín habitat is lost as it is plowed under for tomato fields or for housing developments.

The monarch butterfly, which winters in the forests of Michoacán (the state where many avocados are grown), could potentially be put at risk, along with other plants and animals in the habitat.

An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural habitat where other plants and animals can use it.