Sentences with phrase «biodiversity hotspot»

Southeast Asia is a global biodiversity hotspot — but with about four billion people living in the region, the pressures on that biodiversity are severe.

Fast - forward to today, and you might never know that it wasn't a biodiversity hotspot all along.

Since 2001, Rutagarama has continued his conservation work, playing a major role in facilitating international collaboration efforts to protect the Central Albertine Rift, a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Virunga mountain gorillas» habitat.

It would also have destroyed a biodiversity hotspot and had major impacts downstream... and most of the power would have been sent back to China.

An extreme climatic event alters marine ecosystem structure in a global biodiversity hotspot

Such an adjustment could also consider the international market drivers of biodiversity loss, such as China's demand for soy (mainly as cattle feed) driving biodiversity loss in Brazil's Cerrado, a biodiversity hotspot of conservation priority (Strassburg et al. 2017).

ACEH, Indonesia — Deforestation slowed last year in the Indonesian province of Aceh, home to the Leuser Ecosystem biodiversity hotspot, according to a local forest watchdog.

While the Cerrado has lower carbon stocks than the Amazon rainforest, it's a biodiversity hotspot: more than 3,000 plants, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibian species are unique to the region.

The taiga, the ecosystem in which the Dukha, Mongolia's reindeer herder community, live, is a biodiversity hotspot and has abundant natural resources, but is also one of the regions of Mongolia which could suffer the greatest impacts of climate change over the coming decades.

The flora of California, a global biodiversity hotspot, includes 2387 endemic plant taxa.

The area is known as a biodiversity hotspot, with much of its wildlife found beneath the waves.

Combine the Maya ruins of Guatemala (a noted biodiversity hotspot) and Belize with the turquoise beaches and barrier...

Most of Central America is considered to be part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot.

Cape Town is a biodiversity hotspot, which, although this might sound like a trendy marketing term to lure visitors to the city, actually means that most of its flora is threatened with extinction.

This afternoon, try your hand at Maori weaving and take a guided walk through the native forests of Whirinaki Te Pua - a-Tāne Conservation Park, a biodiversity hotspot.

Belize is at the centre of a biodiversity hotspot with pristine subtropical forests, exotic wildlife, ancient Mayan ruins and the second longest barrier reef in the clear Caribbean waters.

Belize is at the centre of a biodiversity hotspot with pristine subtropical forests, exotic wildlife, ancient Mayan ruins and the...

I go to Fitzgerald River National Park — a biodiversity hotspot of the world.

And once that ancestor arrived, it was likely isolated by open seas — which is the same dynamic that's made this area of the Pacific a biodiversity hotspot.

This is really important because we're talking about a global biodiversity hotspot.

Why: Protect endangered Andean bear and other species in a significant biodiversity hotspot, while improving livelihoods of local communities.

While proximity to both the Polar Front and Southern ACC Front supports the unique and thriving ecosystem and biodiversity hotspot surrounding South Georgia today, there are also inherent vulnerabilities associated with their closeness.

With near - surface waters around South Georgia being some of the fastest warming on Earth climate change poses a significant threat to this biodiversity hotspot.

Among them is the marine swimming crab Liocarcius depurator, which initially only occurred sporadically, but in the last ten years has become a dominant element of this biodiversity hotspot.

The epicenter of China's devastating Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 was in the Wolong Nature Reserve, a globally important valuable biodiversity hotspot and home to the beloved and endangered giant pandas.

Although it makes up only 6 percent of California by area, it contains one - quarter of the species found in the California Floristic Province, a global biodiversity hotspot.

«The only functional way to save this biodiversity hotspot is to reach a policy decision at the highest levels in Ecuador to place an absolute ban on road construction in the region.»

This biodiversity hotspot of India is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

However, the Bombay night frog (Nyctibatrachus humayuni), which is endemic to the Western Ghats Biodiversity hotspot of India, mates differently.

The deep ocean, which covers more than 60 percent of Earth's surface, is a biodiversity hotspot at increased risk from climate change.

This is what happened to Colin Strine from Sakaerat Environmental Research Station in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, during a field trip with his team to a biodiversity hotspot in the north - east of the country where at least 176 snake species are found.

Since Wehea Forest is a biodiversity hotspot, paperwork have been submitted to legally change the status of Wehea Forest from «production forest» to «protected forest.»

The Arunachal macaque lives in a biodiversity hotspot that is under immense threat from human development.

This find is a result of five years of extensive explorations in the Western Ghats global biodiversity hotspot in India.

Of the total new species of amphibians (1581) described globally between the years 2006 - 2015, the highest number were from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (approximately 182) followed by the Western Ghats - Sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot (approximately 159), with 103 species described alone from the Western Ghats region.

[Yaowu Xing and Richard H. Ree, Uplift - driven diversification in the Hengduan Mountains, a temperate biodiversity hotspot]

The northwest of Madagascar in particular is a global marine biodiversity hotspot, exhibiting some of the highest diversity of coral reef ecosystems in the world.

Priya Davidar grew up in picturesque Ooty, a town in southern India with the misty blue mountains of the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot, as its backdrop.

This area is a biodiversity hotspot, and is being rapidly converted to large - scale agriculture.

The importance of connectivity between coffee and protected areas is tremendous, given the overlap and proximity of biodiversity hotspots and coffee - growing regions (Hardner and Rice 2002) and the importance of shaded coffee in the face of global climate change.

Threatened centers of endemism are major biodiversity hotspots, and conservation efforts targeted toward them could help avert the loss of tropical reef biodiversity.

The ocean has biodiversity hotspots that rival the richness and variety of life found in tropical rainforests, according to a new study.

The city sits in one of the planet's top 35 biodiversity hotspots.

Impacts in Borneo are exemplary for other biodiversity hotspots in the humid tropics, for example, the Amazon.

Parts of the Nu River are also designated as a World Heritage site and the Nature Conservancy and Conservation International have delineated stretches of this river and its tributaries as biodiversity hotspots.

Often, the researchers found, the coral hotspots were directly adjacent to biodiversity hotspots on land.

The Sunda Islands east of Indonesia came in a close second, while reefs off Southern Japan finished third in a list of 18 biodiversity hotspots.

But on the front lines of conservation, where people live intimately with primary forests, biodiversity hotspots and endangered species, it is often grinding poverty that drives the destruction.

«Two of the new species are confined to single mountain ranges in southeastern Arizona, one of the United States» biodiversity hotspots,» says Brent Hendrixson, a co-author of the study.

«They are the biodiversity hotspots of the deep ocean floor,» says Smith.