Sentences with phrase «as nature reserves»

Only protected lands, such as nature reserves and national parks, appear to be safe from development.

Meanwhile, the government was rapidly expanding the area of the Amazon that was formally designated as nature reserves and indigenous territories, including new protected areas in the agricultural expansion zones.

The luxuriant Republic of Costa Rica is renowned for housing over 5 % of the biodiversity of our planet as well as for having the largest number of national parks and protected areas known as nature reserves.

Luxuriant Nature and Biodiversity at Its Finest — Cabo Blanco National Park in Costa Rica The luxuriant Republic of Costa Rica is renowned for housing over 5 % of the biodiversity of our planet as well as for having the largest number of national parks and protected areas known as nature reserves.

Riviera Maya has unmatched views of rare landforms, as well as nature reserves consisting in species of plants and animals that can not be found any place else.

9 Fern Rest is the ideal base from which to explore the surrounding attractions, such as nature reserves, golf courses, quad and mountain biking trails, paragliding and hiking, to name but a few.

Some uninhabited islands are protected as nature reserves and some are privately owned.

Many have special attractions — such as nature reserves with baby...

Protected areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, are thought to provide a refuge for wildlife, but according to a new study, many of these areas are not safe from light pollution.

Some was put off - limits as nature reserves in 2004.

Polish scientists worked to protect the least spoiled area of forest with the greatest density of big trees, first as a nature reserve and then as a national park in 1932.

As a nature reserve it remains the most protected of public lands, and today the sheer abundance and diversity of birdlife gives testimony to the decades of careful management, good planning and much hard work.

Once an area popular for hunting, these marshy wetlands, streams, lagoons and floating islands is now thankfully protected as a nature reserve.

It was recently proclaimed as a nature reserve and received international recognition for the introduction of 28 black rhino in 2005.

This marine taxi will allow you to visit the treasures of a gigantic lagoon classified as a nature reserve in total comfort.

Its great views toward Table Mountain as well as the nature reserve, will make guests» stay unforgettable.

But by having the corridor protected as a nature reserve, the area could provide new tourism activities.

That year, we caught the public's attention by filing a bill with the Commonwealth House of Representatives to designate the corridor as a nature reserve.

A few weeks before elections were held, we asked candidates to state whether they were going to commit to protecting the area as a nature reserve.

This order established land use on the island and stated that at least some of the land on the corridor would be dedicated as a nature reserve.

«After many years of struggle, finally, in April 2013, the corridor was designated by law as a nature reserve,» Rivera Herrera says.

Newly energized, Rivera Herrera drafted a bill to protect the corridor as a nature reserve.

Covering more than 3,000 acres in the northeast corner of Puerto Rico, the Northeast Ecologico Corridor had been designated as a nature reserve in 2008 by preceding governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá after a multiparty effort in the state legislature.

The Corridor is the second most important Leatherback turtle nesting beach in U.S. jurisdiction, and of the top three, it is now the only one without protection as a nature reserve.

Not exact matches

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It is crucial, at last, to any person's understanding of his own nature and is not reserved as what «any novelist must have.»

It is not «wickedness» or «sin»... it is nature, and our evolved social skills, and need for social interaction as a species, while it has a side that is normally kept in reserve, is necessary for any species to survive.

That which as a husband makes him so gentle and as a father so careful is, apart from his good - nature and his sense of duty, the admission he has made to himself in his most inward reserve concerning his weakness.

Merleau - Ponty's appreciation of Whitehead's views of the immanence and transcendence of nature, temporal duration, the insertion of time in nature as opposed to reserving it for a disconnected realm of subjectivity and the Gestalt structure of present and past, all find a home in The Visible and the Invisible (see especially VIV 184 -185,190-191,194-195).

And it is this Enframing as the essence of technology that also «demands that nature be orderable as standing - reserve.»

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Danish magazine SE Og HOR have gifted the 27 - year - old 1 sq.ft of land in Glencoe Wood, a nature reserve in Scotland, with the Gunners flop announced as Lord of this area on a special certificate.

I'm a bit more reserved by nature and not as apt to go up to people I don't know and strike up a conversation, and most of the connections that I did make were through Momma Jup and her magnetic pull to everyone.

Nature Reserves and National Parks such as Doñana, Garajonay and Ordesa and Monte Perdido, have environmental workshops that teach children about the mountains, wetlands, and the flora and fauna of the different ecosystems.

Established in 1931 as a Game reserve and Nature reserve, it was gazetted as a national park only in 1992 after an initial survey of avifauna was conducted.

[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations of Ghana include a warm, tropical climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.

As monopoly owners of the commons who think of our environment the way Johnny Carson thought of his time, we could have more money coming in while we also secure larger parks, more nature reserves, less pollution, and better resource management.

The amount of land used by shooters to record wildlife through BASC's Green Shoots Mapping website is double that designated as National Nature Reserves (NNR) in the UK.

The RSPB hires graduates to work on nature reserves as wardens, or as fund - raisers and policy - makers.

It is possible that these areas act as an «ecological trap» and jeopardize the populations in the nature reserves,» explains Hallmann.

In 1994, the International Union for Conservation of Nature gave the concept of extractive reserves its stamp of approval, expanding its protected - area classification system to include «Category VI,» defined as «Protected Areas with Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.»

Together, they head Sigur Nature Trust, which E.R.C. Davidar established before his death in 2010 so that his private reserve could continue to serve as a wildlife corridor.

Shennongjia, a nature reserve near the dam in Hubei province, is so undisturbed that it is famous for sightings of yeren, or «wild man» — the Chinese equivalent of «Big Foot» — as well as the only slightly more prosaic white monkey.

But catastrophic flooding along the Yangtze River in the 1990s prompted the Chinese government to implement multiple forest protection policies, including nature reserves, a commercial logging ban, reforestation programs and ecotourism, as a sustainable development strategy.

Although increasing illumination was more common in MPAs associated with human activity, even those designated as strict nature reserves or wilderness areas, which have limited human intrusion, experienced increasing light — about 9 % are experiencing increases in artificial light intensity, the team reports online before print in Conservation Letters.

Based on these data, Marxan designs nature reserves that cost as little as possible to create and maintain, while meeting whatever conservation criteria the user has established; this might mean creating the smallest possible nature reserve that still represents every type of plant life in a given region.

The purpose of boreal forest reserves like Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell Nature Reserve in Southern Norway is to preserve natural forests as ecosystems — including the natural plant and animal life, and the natural processes that belong.

In the principal tiger state of Madhya Pradesh, which arguably leads the way in its management of nature reserves, tourism revenue is used to fund programmes for local villagers, who act as gatekeepers against poachers.

After her PhD, she has worked with nature reserve establishment, the interface of wind power development and conservation as well as the interface of landscape values and tourism development at the County Administrative Board of Västra Götalands län.

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