Sentences with phrase «designated as nature reserves»

Meanwhile, the government was rapidly expanding the area of the Amazon that was formally designated as nature reserves and indigenous territories, including new protected areas in the agricultural expansion zones.

Covering more than 3,000 acres in the northeast corner of Puerto Rico, the Northeast Ecologico Corridor had been designated as a nature reserve in 2008 by preceding governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá after a multiparty effort in the state legislature.

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The amount of land used by shooters to record wildlife through BASC's Green Shoots Mapping website is double that designated as National Nature Reserves (NNR) in the UK.

Although increasing illumination was more common in MPAs associated with human activity, even those designated as strict nature reserves or wilderness areas, which have limited human intrusion, experienced increasing light — about 9 % are experiencing increases in artificial light intensity, the team reports online before print in Conservation Letters.

Listed as officially one of France's Plus Beaux Villages (most beautiful villages), Piana overlooks the sparkling waters of the Golfe de Porto, a protected nature reserve that has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

That year, we caught the public's attention by filing a bill with the Commonwealth House of Representatives to designate the corridor as a nature reserve.

More than 50 % of its land area is designated as protected in national parks, nature reserves and biological corridors.

«After many years of struggle, finally, in April 2013, the corridor was designated by law as a nature reserve,» Rivera Herrera says.