Sentences with phrase «many sensitive habitats»

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 45 - day Call seeks to gather information about specific areas within the Beaufort Sea Planning Area that have the most promising oil and gas resource potential, while also increasing the agency's understanding about environmentally sensitive habitats and important social and cultural uses — including vital Alaska Native subsistence activities — that also exist within the area.

BASC North regional officer Gareth Dockerty said: «The film shows how upland gamekeepers and those involved in the provision of land for shooting engage with their communities to manage sensitive habitats in a sustainable way for wildlife and people.»

This approach can protect sensitive habitats, which also act as nursery grounds for scallops and other species, while boosting the overall productivity of the fisheries.

With the most pessimistic observers predicting the sea rising by a few feet by the end of the century, state officials and environmentalists are worried that some sensitive habitats and islands lining the region could be lost entirely, exposing the city and state to the full brunt of strong storms.

Why is the Division of Boating & Ocean Recreation encouraging neuter / return practitioners to relocate cats to potentially much more sensitive habitats?

These observations guide park management to make informed decisions on how to best protect the threatened shorebird and its sensitive habitat.

This invasive wood sorrel is indigenous to South Africa, and is generally unwelcome in gardens (and in the sensitive habitats of our parks!).

Help restore sensitive habitat in Marin County.

Sensitive habitat and great birding opportunities.

The route will be temporarily closed at the end of the boardwalk to relieve pressure on the sensitive habitat in this area.

Much of San Miguel island is closed to exploration due to unexploded ordnance, sensitive habitat, and archaeological sites unless accompanied by a park ranger or a park naturalist.

Invasive Plant Patrol April 11, 2018 Wednesday, 10 am - 2:30 pm Location: Marin County, Marin Headlands Help restore sensitive habitat while enjoying a hike on some of the most scenic trails in the park.

The sanctuary is a special place for species close to extinction, sensitive habitats, shipwrecks and maritime heritage artifacts.

Park Stewardship San Mateo April 14, 2018 Saturday, 10 am - 1 pm Location: Mori Point, San Mateo County Help protect endangered species and restore sensitive habitat while enjoying a day in the park.

From stopping bottom trawling in sensitive habitat areas to protecting sea turtles from commercial fishing gear, our victories represent a new hope for the world's oceans.

«In addition to working to help America's farmers as the Chair of the Senate Ag Committee, Senator Stabenow is fighting to preserve Great Lakes health and protect sensitive habitat.»

You may also have learned about the connection between the decline of the shark population and the burning and dredging of more coal near their sensitive habitats.

As a result, the 112,800 acres avoid sensitive habitat along the Chesapeake Bay, military training areas, marine vessel traffic, a dredge disposal site, and areas of concern specified by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Many sensitive habitats exist within the coastal ecosystems.

The heliostats will be placed in between the radial access roads and will be inserted directly in the ground, without the need for cement posts and avoiding areas of sensitive habitat.

Due to the rapid increase in wind development projects in the Northeast, Wildlife Biologists and Natural Resource Managers are expressing their growing concerns regarding large scale development and its impacts to sensitive habitat and the wildlife that inhabit these areas.

Many unanswered questions exist regarding the impacts of wind development on wildlife in these sensitive habitats and it may take years to more fully understand.

New evidence from clams and mussels with temperature - sensitive habitat requirements confirm that warmer temperatures and less sea ice than today existed during the early Holocene period about 10.2 — 9.2 thousand years ago and between 8.2 and 6.0 thousand years ago (based on radio carbon dates) around Svalbard.

Having invested a tremendous amount of time and resources into making the park a popular destination for eco-tourists, Sue Sill, its executive director, and her colleagues are afraid that the fence will cut through areas of sensitive habitat and harm endangered or threatened species.

Facing criticism, biofuels industry forms new lobby group to influence lawmakers (7/25/2008) Under attack by politicians, aid groups, and environmentalists for driving up food prices and fueling destruction of ecologically sensitive habitats, some of the world's largest agroindustrial firms have formed a lobby group to influence consumers and lawmakers to support continued subsidies for biofuel production, reports Reuters.

Not exact matches

Today we are increasing our commitment to protect even more sensitive fish habitat in the future.

In addition, certain arthropods, especially carabids, are considered as sensitive indicators of habitat quality49.

The priority habitat designation program allows the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game's Fisheries and Wildlife Division to review projects in environmentally sensitive areas and make recommendations for landowners to avoid impacts to these vulnerable species.

They have helped entomologists capture rare insects on disappearing virgin prairie, taken part in a skit on the whooping crane's perilous migration, learned to identify invasive weeds choking sensitive waterways, done surveys on native bee numbers, and signed petitions to pass laws to better conserve monarch butterfly habitat.

Prairie roadsides had twice as many of these less common, habitat - sensitive species; in addition, the numbers of these butterflies were five times higher at prairie roadsides than at grassy roadsides.

«These species were highly sensitive to the changing habitat and therefore more likely to disappear in landscapes that encompass only a small proportion of intact forest.»

«This demonstrates that while wood thrushes are sensitive to breeding forest fragmentation, it is not the main cause of declines, rather the loss and / or degradation of habitat in the winter range in Central America is the culprit,» Taylor said.

With this amount of climate change, no level of habitat restoration, the scientists conclude, will prevent populations of these drought - sensitive butterflies from going locally extinct by 2100.

Mapping these habitats manually would have taken hundreds of hours and compromised these ecologically sensitive areas.

Headwater streams, which provide the coldest available habitat in many areas, are often assumed to be the ultimate refuges for coldwater species, but many of these species are also acid - sensitive — and many headwaters of the southern Appalachian region are already too acid to support them.

The researchers focused on streams draining seven national forests in the southern Appalachian region, first mapping out how much of the area's current habitat is suitable for acid - and heat - sensitive aquatic species such as the native brook trout.

The canyons are important because they act as a refuge for important species of fish and provide a habitat for sensitive species of deep water corals and sponges.

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University and the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that habitat fragmentation and the addition of makeshift perches such as transmission polls in sagebrush ecosystems are creating preferred habitat for common ravens that threaten sensitive native bird species, including greater sage grouse.

Ensure that industry, mining, infrastructure, and rural development programs and projects are fully sensitive to the conservation needs of snow leopards and their ecosystems, do not adversely affect or fragment key populations or critical habitats, and employ wildlife - friendly design, offsets, and other mitigation tools.

They also provide habitat for rare and temperature - sensitive species like bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii), and pearlshell mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera).

The Pulitzer Prize — winning author of American Lion (2008) brings to bear his focused and sensitive scholarship, rich prose style, and acute sense of the need to ground his subject in time and place and observe him in his natural habitat.

Here we see that the conclusion is «The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.»

The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.

Activities include repairing and maintaining trails, constructing new routes, and protecting sensitive natural habitat.

I think environmental educators, myself included, need to be more careful, sensitive, and consistent in their explanations of habitat restoration.

Past projects have included maintaining trails, growing plants at our native plant nurseries, creating habitat for endangered species, restoring historic sailing ships, and building fences to protect sensitive park sites.

The area has two marine refuges and 45 acres of environmentally sensitive coastal sage scrub providing habitat for the endangered Pacific pocket mouse and the gnatcatcher, a rare songbird that is threatened but not on the endangered species list.

Nestled amongst a natural oasis of coastal lagoons, and surrounded by swathes of tropical palms and endemic rainforest — a rich habitat that provides a home to dozens of native species - this resort has its roots firmly grounded in sensitive eco-tourism.

The trail will route people away from the sensitive Rincon Creek, an ephemeral desert water source bordered with high quality riparian habitat.