Sentences with phrase «as a buffer zone»

By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.

His son James, a cloned version of his father complete with push - it - and - I - talk anti-BBC phrases, is slowly coming into the scandal spotlight, as the buffer zone between him and calamity, sometimes referred to as Rebekah Brooks, disintegrates away.

Those arguing for drastic change tend to make the headlines, but there are many, including many in the military, that promote a traditional line, voicing concerns over US encirclement and the importance of the North as a buffer zone to US forces in South Korea.

Poor old Ken Clarke has to get up to perform his duty as a buffer zone for Cameron and Fox's reputation.

The feature suggests some key actions that could be taken to manage the problem of pollutagens, including preserving wetlands that act as a buffer zone between sources of pollutagens, such as farms and towns, keeping pets indoors, and disposing of human and animal sewage more responsibly.

Indeed, playing fields may be used as buffer zones to separate school buildings from busy roads where necessary.

Vaccinated pets act as a buffer zone between rabid animals and you.

On the upside, the East Coast Trail Association has made great strides to clean up the area, and the pollution is in a very limited area due to the trees acting as a buffer zone.

Immersing yourself in high rent, luxury items, trendy, overpriced cocktail bars, flashy restaurants, tall leggy blondes who don't give a damn about you, just to act as a buffer zone between you and the abyss.»

Copenhagen has beautifully curved canals, which serve as buffer zones between many of the areas.

Nyhavn Copenhagen has beautifully curved canals, which serve as buffer zones between many of the areas.

Not exact matches

To keep things safe, it also proposes that a 100 - foot cushion just above that airspace be made a no - fly zone to act as a buffer between drones and other aircraft, such as planes, according to The Guardian.

UCP MLAs sat stonefaced and silent Thursday, looking at phones and tablets as opponents accused them of misogyny and political cowardice over the government's proposed abortion clinic buffer zone bill.

Sustainable agricultural practices, such as those we promote through the Sustainable Agriculture Network standard, offer simple, practical solutions, such as maintaining big buffer zones, preferably planted with native trees, between farm fields and waterways.

Deforestation is stopped, rivers are safeguarded by buffer zones, critical on - farm ecosystems (such as wetlands) are protected, and forest patches are preserved.

A recent New York Times article, about scientists visiting Aquiares to study, noted the increase in biodiversity as a result of the extensive variety of shade trees and the provision of buffer zones.

A 2015 study co-authored by the Rainforest Alliance established that the deforestation rate in the Forest Stewardship Council - certified community forestry concessions was nearly zero, as compared to an annual deforestation rate of 1.2 percent in the MBR overall and 5.5 percent in the reserve's buffer zones.

Good Samaritan's $ 14 million proposal to level more than 300 trees to make way for a multilevel office building / fitness center and 385 - space parking lot would damage the buffer zone, as well as the preserve, Brooks said.

Between them is a buffer zone of 10 mixed states (and the Federal Capital Territory) known collectively as the Middle Belt.

That conflict ended with North Korea as a sort of human buffer zone between US forces and the Chinese mainland.

Yes, lots of initiatives reduce infrastructure on the border, such as sharing customs intelligence and buffer enforcement zones, but each lorry with goods is stopped and many are checked.

The Senate remains narrowly divided, with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference acting as a potential buffer zone for the Senate Republicans.

«As attorney general, he successfully fought to protect and expand buffer zones around health clinics so that families would be safe from intimidation and harassment.»

Anti-horse carriage activists won an appeal that eliminates a 9 - foot buffer zone imposed by a lower - court judge — and lets them get as close as they want to the hansom cabs.

It admits improvements are being made, noting that the first nine months of 2007 saw an increase from 47 per cent to 50 per cent, but describes the ten per cent «buffer zone» announced by health minister Ben Bradshaw as simply a means of lowering the target for this December.

Cara Benson with Save East Greenbush: «As this parcel is a zoned residential buffer, we think the developers are finally realizing that getting this project through the required planning, zoning and required environmental review processes just isn't going to be possible.»

Alarmed, the European Union has mandated the creation of a buffer zone just north of the Pugliese town of Lecce, essentially writing off everything south of a line that extends between the Ionian and Adriatic seas as a dead zone.

«There is no such thing as Xylella,» says Pasquale Spina, a farmer whose trees are in the buffer zone.

Rather than fences, he would prefer to see the establishment of buffer zones to separate humans and lions, as well as more of the kinds of conflict mitigation initiatives that Panthera has helped establish to reduce the killing of lions.

Growers use buffer zones around the field as one method of keeping it there, said Jeff Klingenberg, the vice president of R&D operations at REPREVE.

Set in Cyprus and following the down - on - his - luck Yiannis as he tries to smuggle his dog Jimi across the buffer zone separating the Greek and Turkish sides of the island, the film is a «laidback charmer» with «droll comedy, understated political commentary and an adorable scene - stealing canine,» according to Allan Hunter of Screen Daily.

It's happening inside the buffer zone on the border known as the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, at Panmunjom — the already - historic site of the signing of the 1953 armistice that ended the fighting in the Korean zone on the border known as the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, at Panmunjom — the already - historic site of the signing of the 1953 armistice that ended the fighting in the Korean Zone, or DMZ, at Panmunjom — the already - historic site of the signing of the 1953 armistice that ended the fighting in the Korean War.

The best fixes that have been found are an aftermarket camber adjustment kit installation, since the OEM suspension doesn't have a camber adjustment independent from toe adjustment causing you to sacrifice one for the other to be adjusted perfectly, and stiffer rear springs, after which a realignment with an extra 200 lbs to 300 lbs of weight added so as to have a buffer zone for the rear toe.

This was her place, essential to her existence, caught as it was in the middle of two worlds, a buffer zone between the wild and the tame, the exciting and the mundane, a region not like either it lay between but having some characteristics of each.

As a biosphere, all living habitat is protected, including local Maya people who live in buffer zones on the edges.

We learned that the park is divided into three zones — the recreational zone, buffer zone and the preservation zone which is also known as the bird restoration zone.

As the Refugio Amazonas is positioned in the buffer zone of Tambopata National Reserve, the wildlife you can spot from the lodge is incredible (although a little less diverse than the Tambopata Research Center above).

The vacant land (that might be land that is earmarked for other uses but not yet in use as such or land that is not fit for construction e.g. flood zones, land under power lines, etcetera, or buffer zones and land reserves for future use) is given in short or medium term lease to organized groups of urban poor for gardening purposes (multi annual purposive specific leaseholds or occupancy licenses).

Their safety and resilience depends on the effectiveness of natural and man - made coastal flood protection, i.e. the capacity of the coastal zone to act as a buffer and absorb ocean energy through complex wave shoaling and breaking processes.

The conservation area covers around 39,000 hectares of threatened Miombo woodland in Lusaka Province and acts as an important buffer zone to the Lower Zambezi National Park and the adjacent Mana Pools National Park.

These huge airports may be strains of the atmosphere as a whole, but their immediate impact on our local airspace, thanks to mandated buffer zones, is usually fairly small.

that Justice J. Heneghan, who rendered the Federal Court decision, felt compelled to comment: «Considering the fact that the Greenbelt was conceived as a «buffer zone» against encroaching urban sprawl, the steps taken by the NCC to declare the land surplus and to obtain a rezoning of the land seem more consistent with accommodation of urban sprawl, rather than resistance to the erosion of green areas.