Sentences with phrase «conservation zones for»

Environmentalists on local councils have allowed roadsides to become conservation zones for native vegetation, raising the risk of intense bushfires on access roads and jeopardising residents» safety.

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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.

These include live fences (hedgerows), riparian zones and conservation of forested areas, as well as an optimum shade level for agroforestry crops such as coffee.

The bill amends existing law to allow the state Department of Environmental Conservation to work with the state Department of State and the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to set «conditions for petroleum - bearing vessels to enter or move upon navigable waters of the state, as well as tanker avoidance zones.»

It amends an existing law that lets the state Department of Environmental Conservation work with the Department of State and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to set «conditions for petroleum - bearing vessels to enter or move upon navigable waters of the state, as well as «tanker avoidance zones»» on the lower Hudson River.

Policy makers and managers could use the index to guide decision making — for example, about whether offshore wind energy should be expanded in the U.S., whether land or ocean conservation measures will benefit coral reefs in Fiji and how marine - zoning plans in Brazil might affect overall ocean health.

It also calls for creating «marine conservation zones» and would «pioneer a new system of conservation credits to protect habitats and create incentives to invest in wildlife.»

Designating «land - use zones» for both conservation and farming would safeguard habitats, while incentivising higher yields to compensate for limits on the extent of farmland.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

In a report to the Mexican presidential commission on vaquita conservation, the scientists urge that the country establish a gillnet exclusion zone for the small porpoises» entire range beginning in September 2014.

The researchers also recommend that these strategies should take account of the cumulative impacts of development in individual countries by mapping the best locations for offsets to promote species conservation objectives, as well as by creating «no - go zones» for any development.

By differentiating the financial gains of different conservation strategies — large but distant preserves versus small, local stands of trees — Karp thinks the study could provide a framework for introducing similar efforts in agricultural zones around the world.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

Biography: Amélie took a postdoctoral research fellowship at the ARC CoE Coral Reef Studies in mid-2012 in the Conservation Planning Program working on the NERP (National Environmental Research Program) project «Conservation planning for a changing coastal zone» led by Prof. Bob Pressey.

Her postdoc work includes scenario planning, land use change modelling, impact assessments, and development of conservation goals and priorities for coastal protection and restoration for the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.

Her thesis concerned forest conservation strategy for southern Sweden, in which she explored the zoning system of biosphere reserves and the implication it could have for increased forest protection.

The «Gray Whale Ranch» had been zoned only for logging but was considered for further development before the Save - the - Redwoods League, a private conservation group, bought the land in 1996 for $ 13.4 million and transferred it to the State Parks Department.

West Bali National Park is nature conservation with pure ecosystem managed by zone system for multiple research purpose involving the education, tourism and recreation.

A fantastic sharing of skills as part of a common effort for the management and conservation of the living resources of the high seas: the first observations uncover Walters Bank as a remarkable ecosystem with a summit zone covered with coralligenous algae.

The City of Eugene has developed and is implementing strategies include increasing water conservation; increasing investment in the urban forest; removing essential services from the 100 - year flood zone; and increasing energy efficiency to reduce demand for hydroelectricity, a resource that is expected to decline with climate change; conducting a food security assessment

«Furthermore, recent studies suggest that fragmenting the Amazon forest could disrupt regional rainfall by breaking down a «biotic pump», in which evapotranspiration from forests creates low - pressure zones that draw in moisture - laden air from the Atlantic Ocean,» said William F. Laurance, a researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who together with Lovejoy, won the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for their work in the Brazilian Amazon.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

As a trans - frontier conservation zone, the area is of significant importance for the protection of biodiversity in southern Africa.

The climate zones referenced are the U.S. Department of Energy climate zones as proposed for adoption in the 2006 International Residential Code (IRC) and International Energy Conservation Code (IECC).

Chevron's filing also cites numerous statutes that refute the plaintiffs» claims that fossil fuels unreasonably interfere with public rights, including the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1992, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Mining and Minerals Policy Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the Federal Lands Policy Management Act, all of which specifically call for the production of oil and natural gas within the United States:

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.

Much of the blame for this can, of course, be attributed to lax regulations; in the U.S., the first (and last) major wave of national legislation addressing ocean and coastal conservation was enacted in the 1970s, with the enactment of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) and Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA), amongst others.In recent years, we've seen coastal states taking the initiative in forming regional partnerships aimed at protecting and promoting their dwindling oceanic and coastal resources.

In 1991, the Town passed a bylaw (bylaw U91, replaced in 2010 by bylaw URB03) that changed the zoning for 60 % of the Respondent's land in order to create a conservation zone, thereby preventing any residential development on that part of the land.