Sentences with phrase «buffer zones»

So much for buffer zones in perpetuity.

The U.S. Supreme Court found the government does have a legitimate interest in «ensuring public safety and order, promoting the free flow of traffic on streets and sidewalks, protecting property rights, and protecting a woman's freedom to seek pregnancy - related services,» and that the buffer zones at issue «clearly serve these interests.»

It allowed for Indigenous irrigation allocations, pastoral businesses, and outside sensitive buffer zones around rivers even mining.

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

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

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.

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resources.

To meet certification standards on its farms, Chiquita has worked to protect forest preserves, plant buffer zones of trees along waterways, recycle the large blue plastic bags used to cover bunches of ripening bananas, and improve facilities for workers.

Citation: «Peru buffer zones».

The logging concessions stand to devastate the remaining forest in the buffer zones surrounding the national park.

The initiative, founded and led by Aliança da Terra, will reward ranchers who maintain their legal forest reserves (Brazilian law requires landowners to keep 80 percent of their land forested), establish fire breaks and riparian buffer zones, and take other measures to minimize the impact of their operations.

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).

Kaua'i Pesticide Litigation - The Kaua'i Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation helped to enact Local Ordinance 960 requiring more oversight, buffer zones and reporting of pesticide and GMO use on the island of Kaua'i in Hawaii.

The reserve is largely secure from wildlife traffickers but surrounding buffer zones have been hit by poachers frequenting old roads at night and using spotlights to pick out tigers or other targets, according to Jonathan C. Slaght of the conservation society's Russia program.

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

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

Anti-abortion-rights demonstrators stand outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014 after oral arguments over buffer zones around abortion clinics.

Five sites are protected from logging by a government decree, but lumber is still removed from buffer zones around these sites.

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.

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.

Though management policies have been adapted to keep domestic animals out of the creek during the recreation season — May through October — and to create buffer zones, spikes in bacteria levels are still causing concern.

Concrete steps could be to reduce forest fragmentation or to create buffer zones around cold places so they remain cold, when close - by forest is cut down,» says Caroline Greiser.

That means huge safety buffer zones are needed between aircraft.

The scientists, like the Indian high court, call for more «sizable buffer zones» around such parks.

The report recommends investing more money in conserving land in buffer zones around public water supplies.

Relocation has its disadvantages, too, however: in places destroyed by the same tsunami in Sri Lanka, the authorities created buffer zones where new construction was prohibited.

The packs have spread beyond the wilderness boundary and also beyond the National Forest buffer zones.

Gennaro, among other city - based officials, thinks the buffer zones need to be larger, and sent those concerns to the state D.E.C..

Sheehan called Schneiderman a «leader» on the abortion - rights issue, citing his expansion of buffer zones around Planned Parenthood facilities in upstate cities.

«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.»

«From introducing the Reproductive Rights Disclosure Act, to expanding clinic buffer zones, to investigating so - called «crisis pregnancy centers», Eric has taken on tough fights for the women of New York State,» said NOW - NYS President Zenaida Mendez.

A spokesman for Stefanik told The Sun the lawmaker voted to support the legislation because the measure would «restore transparency to the process of developing stream buffer zones near mining activities and require the Secretary of the Interior to work on a comprehensive study aimed at protecting streams.»

The diaper inner also has stay dry «buffer zones» to keep liquid locked inside, plus a waterproof tummy strip on the inside front.

Mr Baxter claimed when he planted the GM canola, he followed all regulations on buffer zones and notified his neighbours.

The use of organic agriculture in protected buffer zones has been explored in the Meso - American Biological Corridor, a complex of protected areas and sustainable management stretching over seven countries.

The initiative envisages a range of sustainable land uses within the buffer zones and linking areas, including certified forest management and organic agriculture79.

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.

1 The Mesoamerican Biological Corridor is a programme concerning sustainable development and management in several protected areas and buffer zones linked by connectivity zones and multiple - use zones (corridors).

Pruning of the overstory and the removal of epiphytes is discouraged, and buffer zones are encouraged.

The «Coffee Growing — Environmental Leadership» section covers water body protection, including criteria for width and type of vegetated buffer zones along permanent and seasonal water bodies, and use of chemicals or waste storage near water bodies; protection of soil resources, including measures to control and prevent erosion and use of organic mulches and cover crops; conserving biodiversity, including maintaining a shade canopy, protecting wildlife, and establishment of conservation areas; and environmental management, including pest and disease control.

In their report, they noted that the extensive variety of shade trees and the buffer zones around streams significantly increase overall biodiversity.

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.

Coffee plots are interlaced with over a dozen natural springs and almost 20 kilometers in streams, all protected with buffer zones in line with our Rainforest Alliance certification.

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.

Sonoma County vote OKs stream setbacks Sonoma County supervisors Monday adopted a hard - won compromise between farmers and environmental groups, advancing protective buffer zones along 3,200 miles of streams and rivers in the county...

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

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.

For suppliers of agricultural commodities, that can include a range of practices from agroforestry, planting trees and maintaining forest buffer zones to reducing pesticide use, conserving water and soil and protecting wildlife.

Our GMO - Tested and Glyphosate - Tested open pollinated corn is grown on small family farms with buffer zones, ensuring that the places where the corn is planted is not downwind from any other conventional corn fields that may be using genetically modified seeds.

Current organic standards do not require any special buffer zones for the growing of organic corn, therefore much of the supply of certified organic corn in the U.S. could possibly be contaminated by GMO cross pollination.