Sentences with phrase «destroying wildlife habitat»

Three fifty is the amount of carbon in parts per million that the atmosphere can handle safely without warming up and melting glaciers, raising the sea level, bringing on killer storms, destroying wildlife habitat, and all the other horrors that pop like mushrooms from your morning paper nearly every day.

Such massive industrialization of the landscape is destroying wildlife habitat, upsetting natural ecological and hydrological processes, and threatening numerous herds of Canada's threatened woodland caribou and the health of the forest ecosystem.

Booming tar sands operations in Canada are destroying wildlife habitat at an increasing pace — pushing woodland caribou to the brink of extinction and prompting plans to poison and shoot thousands of wolves in a cruel effort to «protect» the caribou.

Across the United States, coal mining is destroying wildlife habitat, polluting local water resources and dirtying our air.

And he can devote some of that angry energy to stopping greedy developers and the local governments who facilitate them from destroying wildlife habitat.

He also adds that the findings do not endorse clear - cutting or destroying wildlife habitats.

Wind and solar companies have been exempted from endangered species laws, to protect them against legal actions for destroying wildlife habitats, birds and bats.

Not exact matches

«The fear - mongering about aquifers being polluted and wildlife habitat being destroyed has no basis in reality.

As forests are slashed for cocoa production, this also leaves less shade for the plants to protect them from the sun, not to mention the habitat that is destroyed for wildlife.

This practice destroys crucial wildlife habitat, threatens the health of farm communities and produces chemical run - off that contaminates local soil, streams and waterways.

In fact it may be a cause in destroying the habitats of wildlife and washing up on the beaches of paradise.

Palm oil deforestation releases high levels of carbon dioxide and destroys the habitat of some of Southeast Asia's most valued wildlife.

We destroy the land for our homes and businesses and then we bring in non-native predators to kill the wildlife that survived the initial destruction of the habitat.

The mining poisons drinking water, destroys beautiful, biodiverse forests and wildlife habitat, increases the risk of flooding, and wipes out entire communities.

In Louisiana, it's not just beaches, but wetlands that can affected — destroying critical wildlife habitat, hurting tourism and ruining the livelihoods of fishermen throughout the region.

The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhouse gas emissions through the conversion of peat forests, dispossessing local communities of land, and engaging in a heavy - handed campaign to undermine its critics within Indonesia and abroad.

When thousands of solar panels are built in undeveloped natural areas, the panels crowd out wildlife and destroy their habitat.

Dams damage rivers: Dams disrupt flows, degrade water quality, block the movement of a river's vital nutrients and sediment, destroy fish and wildlife habitat, impede migration of fish and other aquatic species, and eliminate recreational opportunities.

Famously wet tropical forests, such as those in the Amazon, go up in flames, destroying the world's richest wildlife habitats and releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide to speed global warming.

These projects would have destroyed the corridor's wildlife habitat, threaten the local water supply, and limit public beach access while ignoring the reality that other similar developments in Puerto Rico had failed to bring the economic opportunities that had been promised.