Sentences with phrase «because surrounding habitats»

Protected areas are not sufficient for nature conservation, especially for migratory species (e.g. birds) because surrounding habitats are agricultural lands which often create negative externalities.

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All coral reef islands are inherently dependent on their surrounding reef habitats, not only because they provide the foundations for island development (Perry et al., 2013), but also because they are the primary production sites for the sediments necessary to sustain island building, growth, and maintenance.

A once - rich habitat in the Antarctic has become an impoverished zone as icebergs, increasingly breaking free from the surrounding sea ice because of global warming, scour the shallow - water rocks and boulders on which a diversity of creatures cling to life.

Because of coca - growing and other agriculture, 1,235 acres of forest surrounding the Gorgeted Puffleg's habitat are devastated each year, according to the Hummingbird Conservancy.