Sentences with phrase «by fauna»

It is also surrounded by fauna and flora which adds to the cottage's charm.

Bambuu Lakeside Lodge sits on the bank of a lake, surrounded by fauna and flora on a farm in Kiepersol near Hazyview.

The series is inspired by the memoir by Fauna Hodel, a white woman...

All baby onesies by Fauna are 100 % pre-shrunk, organic cotton.

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The conditions require that sediment entering the marine park be reduced by 150 percent over the long term — a «net benefit» to water quality — and that $ 81 million be contributed to reef conservation programmes and specific measures observed to protect marine flora and fauna.

A woman cloned from the first male's rib caused the deaths of countless creatures, flora and fauna, great and small, by allowing a talking snake to convince her to eat magic fruit.

The surfeit of commissions awarded to Rubens was managed by a businesslike outfit in Antwerp, where specialist assistants in landscape, costume, flora and fauna collaborated to produce large - scale panels and canvases that were ultimately certified as Rubenses by the final enlivening touch of the master's hand.

For the early explorers, and certainly for those in Europe reading their first reports, the specificity and detail of America's native flora and fauna, and even more, its aboriginal Indian cultures, which by 1492 had already completed a long and distinguished history in this hemisphere, were swallowed up in a generalized feeling of newness which replaced that specificity and detail with the blank screen of an alleged «state of nature.»

But to the minds of the majority our human condition seemed finally to be exalted by the fact that we were rooted in the fauna and soil of the planet — evolving Man in the forefront of the animals.

But by asserting that flora and fauna» perhaps even geysers and other geographical phenomena» have «rights,» the movement degrades liberal principles arising from the «Laws of Nature and of Nature's God» in the same way that wild inflation devalues the worth of currency.

The design of Fish at The Cove, by Spanish firm Capella Garcia, is meant to give guests the impression that they are diving into an underwater world — immersed in the marine life, the rocks, the sand and the flora and fauna that inhabit the ocean.

By reducing threats to native flora and fauna, land management actions such as these increase the likelihood that environmental watering will achieve its intended outcomes.

Guests can choose among three separate ambiances in this Leading Hotel of the World, including adults only oceanfront, family friendly ocean view and a Zen - like tropical setting, embraced by the flora and fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula's jungle.

Customers enter the dine - in section of B&C by walking across the gaping maw of a 30 - foot gator painted on the floor of a room surrounded by taxidermic examples of aquatic fauna.

Guests can choose among three separate ambiances in this Leading Hotel of the World, including adults only ocean - front, family friendly ocean view and a Zen - like tropical setting, embraced by the flora and fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula's jungle.

The species is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix II level.

Its natural landscapes, incredible flora and fauna, and beautiful rice paddies make it an amazing country to explore by foot, boat, or by land.

Add a soothing miniature forest landscape to your mini crib with the Tranquil 4 Piece Mini Crib Bedding Set by Babyletto in petite flora and fauna.

But during that short span, the soft - bodied, stationary Ediacaran fauna suddenly disappeared, driven to extinction by predators, he suggests.

New data from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora found that about 1800 apes have been seized by authorities since 2005, far greater than the previous estimates of several hundred.

An international treaty, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973), known by its acronym, CITES, also addresses this problem.

Among the 71 proposals being considered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok March 3 — 14 are four involving marine species.

A study of the fossil, led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, suggests that following the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana in the middle of the Cretaceous period, a distinct dinosaur fauna evolved in Africa.

The Guiana Space Centre is vast, its buildings and launchpads sitting among 700 square kilometres of forest inhabited by monkeys, jaguars, sloths and other fauna.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is populated by a unique fauna and flora.

Plans were afoot to build an airport on the remote island, famous for its mysterious sculptures of enormous heads, and the group wanted to study the people, flora and fauna while they remained largely untouched by modernity.

A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology shows that several of these Jurassic sites are linked together by shared species and can be recognized as representing a single fossil fauna and flora, containing superbly preserved specimens of a diverse group of amphibian, mammal, and reptile species.

Because the Daohugou Biota and the much better studied Jehol Biota are similar in preservational mode and geographic location, but separated by tens of millions of years, they give palaeontologists an outstanding, even unique, opportunity to study changes in the fauna of this region over a significant span of geological time and an important period in vertebrate evolution.

His loss from the fauna would be irreparable, for he is primarily the great pathmaker, opening the country to penetration by other species.

60 %: grasslands degraded due to overgrazing by livestock, invasion by alien species, or conversion to agriculture, resulting in a rapid decline of native flora and fauna

Protection for elephants, rhinos, sharks and trees was extended by states party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN's Red List and on CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) as an Appendix I species, a designation which prohibits all international commercial trade by member countries.

«On islands like Abaco that have always been dominated by reptiles, the flora and fauna are more vulnerable because they have evolved to lead a more laid back, island existence,» Steadman said.

The researchers found that the effects are largely determined by the presence or absence of different fauna, primarily small algae - eating crustaceans.

Earth has experienced more than a dozen mass extinction events, when the great diversity of life on Earth disappeared and was replaced by a flora or fauna often entirely unlike what had come before.

The ground beetle fauna in the Northeast is pretty well studied by people who are well - known entomologists — as far as entomologists go, says Kip Will, a graduate student at Cornell.

The near - complete human skeleton, with an intact cranium and preserved DNA, was found along with other extinct fauna by a team of scientific divers led by Alberto Nava Blank from Proyecto de Espeleologia de Tulum (PET) in the Sac Actun cave system located off the eastern Yucatan Peninsula in 2007.

In his lifetime he assembled the largest collection of fauna ever accumulated by one man.

The key to safeguarding the world's most at - risk fauna and flora is to link threatened species coverage to protected area expansion, which would combine two of the commitments made by the parties to the CBD, known collectively as the Aichi Targets.

By NEIL HARRIS Imagine yourself exploring the seabed off the Galapagos Islands, gliding through the flora and fauna in a submersible craft.

In cases where data are good enough to show that a species may be threatened by extinction, it can be protected through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna.

Data from the list are also used by scientists working under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change to help them track how global warming could be affecting wild flora and fauna.

Sommerville told the International Peatlands Convention in Edinburgh last week that by damming the drains and removing trees from these areas it would be possible to restore the original flow of water through the bogs — and their original flora and fauna.

In the NOVA documentary Jewel of the Earth, David Attenborough reconstructs a 20 - million - year - old Dominican forest ecosystem by examining tiny fauna and flora trapped in the fossilized goo.

Surrounded by a team of scientists, the marine biologist from Frankfurt has studied the fauna at the bottom of the central North Sea for more than 20 years.

The Late Fauna of Early North America By Scott Musgrove The crucial word in the title is late.

Their findings will be part of the first - ever circumpolar Arctic tern status review being coordinated by the Arctic Council's biodiversity working group, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna.

Colombia announced it would quadruple the size of the Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary, while Malawi and Guatemala added commitments to the Bonn Challenge, a multinational initiative to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land by 2050.

We hypothesize that top - down forcing, exerted by this metazoan fauna, shifts the dominant domain responsible for methane oxidation off New Zealand's coast leading to increased emission of a green house gas.

It will focus on a representative degraded ecosystem surrounded by protected areas and carry out measures to improve habitats as well as to enhance the conservation status of 47 targeted flora and fauna species.