Sentences with word «biodiverse»

Clearly tourism is a much better use of this natural wonder than clear cutting and planting mono - cultures of soybeans, corn and sugar cane that are gradually eroding the most biodiverse region of the planet.

«Payments to rural communities offer a new opportunity to restore China's native forests: Study says compensation schemes could help regrowth of biodiverse forests on collectively owned land.»

This area is known to be one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.

The most biodiverse forests in the country, with more freshwater than any other temperate ecosystem, are being totally and utterly destroyed for an amount of electricity measured in hours.

With a third of the world's coral and more than 1,500 species of fish, Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet....

Amazon Tours or jungle tours are an amazing experience in the heart of most biodiverse place on the planet: the Amazone Rainforest of Peru.

(12/23/2009) Ecuador will establish a trust fund for receiving payments to leave oil reserves unexploited in Yasuni National Park, one of the world's most biodiverse rainforest reserves, reports the UN Development Programme, the agency that will administer the fund.

Among the most sensitive taxa to these changes are scleractinian corals, which engineer the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth.

A huge project to return one of Europe's most biodiverse habitats to its former glory is already seeing success.

Did you know that Mexico is among the top five most biodiverse countries in the world?

On the Caribbean side, on the border with Costa Rica, dolphins live year - round in the shallow, biodiverse waters in the archipelago of Bocas del Toro.

Grown in biodiverse environment using sustainable organic methods

Wiens found that local extinctions were more common in animals than plants, and in tropical species than those living in temperate regions — evidence that climate change may be hitting the more biodiverse regions of the world hardest.

Moving south you will dive on the island of Banta before heading into Komodo National Park and one of the most biodiverse marine protected areas in Indonesia.

This is the type of diet that is attained from biodiverse farming — the opposite of what will occur if GM crops like golden rice get planted on a large scale, requiring the removal of all other competing life forms.

Special care needs to be taken to preserve and protect biodiverse areas that are especially suseptible to the pressures of human traffic.

Note that the above image is focussed on Cusco, which can be a base to explore the highly biodiverse cloud forest and lowland Amazon Rainforest.

It's gone from providing a small sanctuary to eleven elephants to become a richly biodiverse park with over 600 elephants... We share 13 Secrets of Addo Elephant National Park......

Indeed, many people might find the prospect of an artificially biodiverse world just as daunting as an artificially impoverished one» says lead author and Postdoc Joseph Bull from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen.

Increased carbon dioxide has already lowered the pH of the surface ocean; this is expected to have a negative effect on survival of plankton, the base of the marine food chain, and the growth and health of corals, which form biodiverse reefs in shallow waters of the Hawaiian Islands and Florida, and deep reefs in Alaska and the Southeast U.S. Invasive species are increasingly being recognized.

Over half the wood burnt at Drax comes from the southern United States, including wood sourced by the pellet company Enviva from biodiverse forests.

-- Thanks to the generosity of a conservation - minded couple, Mass Audubon is pleased to announce the creation of the Tracy Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, newly protected land in Richmond that will support biodiverse wildlife corridors in the Berkshires.

Walling off this arena makes as little sense as talking about feeding some nine billion people on a still - biodiverse planet without technology, including genetic engineering.

Seychelles announces two new Marine Protected Areas covering 210,000 square kilometers of biodiverse ocean waters.

Parque Nacional de Manuel Antonio, in Western Costa Rica is 682 hectares of luscious, jungle paradise, packed with one of the most biodiverse natural habitats in the world; rain forest, a huge diversity of wildlife and spectacular coral reefs.

«Making biodiverse agriculture part of a food - secure future.»

It's gone from providing a small sanctuary to eleven elephants to become a richly biodiverse park with over 600 elephants...

The Caoba ejido in Mexico's biodiverse Selva Maya forest attained FSC certification for their mahogany, used in musical instruments.

A major deficiency of genetically engineered Golden rice to reduce vit A deficiency is the eclipsing of alternatives offered by biodiverse ecological agriculture agriculture.

The Rainforest Alliance works to certify sustainable farming and forestry, and promote responsible tourism in the world's most biodiverse regions.With nearly 20 years of experience certifying sustainable practices, the Rainforest Alliance has the expertise to help companies source a wide variety of sustainable wood products (e.g. paper, pencils and furniture) and food and beverage products (such as coffee for employee cafeterias).

Mass Audubon is pleased to announce the creation of the Tracy Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, newly protected land in Richmond that will support biodiverse wildlife corridors in the Berkshires.

This land could create new livelihoods, food security, community resilience, and more biodiverse lands that would absorb water runoff, attract local wildlife, and sequester carbon (in the form of richer soils).

The paper, «Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika, one of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems,» by Cohen and his co-authors, is scheduled for online publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Aug. 8, 2016.

Based on the data evaluated, the researchers demonstrate that cartilaginous fish, the most biodiverse fish group at the time, especially suffered heavily during an extinction event in the Middle Permian epoch while the Permian ray - finned fish escaped relatively unscathed.

Lead author Dr Mark Abrahams, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Understanding the impacts of subsistence hunting in tropical forests is crucial not only to safeguard the world's most biodiverse terrestrial ecosystems, but also to secure a sustainable future for forest - dependent communities.»

For this reason, leaf litter is considered very biodiverse.

So he started out by replanting the land according to a system of natural succession — eventually reforesting the entire area and turning it into an incredibly biodiverse yet productive working farm which, it's claimed, has actually altered the microclimate around it in the form of increased rainfall and lower temperatures.

At its narrowest point, Costa Rica is only 122 km (76 miles) wide from the Pacific to the Caribbean but inbetween are some of the world's most biodiverse landscapes with an incredible variety of animal and plant life, as well as some of the friendliest people you'll meet anywhere!

Nestled within abundant tropical greenery, each Casita offers ocean views from an expansive terrace, as well as a private garden and biodiverse roof that seamlessly blends with its surroundings

Ready to start your adventure, weigh anchor, leave the harbor behind, and enter the marine protected area of Raja Ampat, home to unique birdlife and the most biodiverse coral reefs in the world.

«It's a rich biodiverse ecosystem but it's definitively suffering some major environmental issues,» Krause said.

In fact, with 35 acres of protected gardens and arboretum, we're the most biodiverse part of the University of Manchester's entire estate.

By educating them about sustainable practices -; for example, harvesting water and protecting biodiverse food areas from cattle -; the organization aims to restore the environment and provide them with greater economic security.

Let us mention, for example, those richly biodiverse lungs of our planet which are the Amazon and the Congo basins, or the great aquifers and glaciers.

For over a decade, the Rainforest Alliance has been working in Madre de Dios with a range of partners to strengthen forest resource management and enterprise to ensure the conservation of the region's extraordinarily biodiverse rainforests.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

Management decisions not to pass flows downstream to the Darling River (and close the gates at Boera Dam) resulted in inundation of the Warrego's important biodiverse western floodplain.

Bird Friendly certified organic coffees grow under biodiverse shade that provides critical habitat for migratory songbirds and other wildlife, sequesters carbon and fights climate change.

Claudia Marcela Betancur from the Colombian organization Biointropic will show how novel ingredients are emerging from biodiverse crops.