Sentences with phrase «destruction of native»

He claimed that the construction of the wind farm would cause destruction of native flora, which is curious considering that by far the greatest part of the project will be on land that has been farmed and / or grazed for decades.

The lawsuit, brought under public nuisance law, seeks monetary damages from the energy industry for the destruction of the native village of Kivalina, AK, by coastal flooding due to anthropogenic climate change....

In responding to complaints from environmentalists that its operations are responsible for large - scale destruction of native forests, APP often touts various certification standards which it says demonstrate its commitment to sustainability.

The 53 pieces of discarded waste paper comprising Jimmy Durham's A Street - level Treatise on Money and Work are brought to the center of a dialogue on the destruction of native cultures and Dario Robleto addresses American notions of manifest destiny in Deep Down I Don't Believe in Hymns by taking a military - issued blanket and «infesting» it with hand - ground dust made from vinyl recordings of Neil Young's «Cortez the Killer» and Soft Cell's «Tainted Love.»

The island's stands of giant coreopsis, as well as all the other plants of its coastal bluff community, were devastated by sheep grazing in the late 1800s and early 1900s, rabbit browsing in 1910 - 1950s, and by large - scale destruction of native vegetation associated with facility and road development by the U.S. Coast Guard during construction and manning of the Anacapa Light Station.

More than 500 years ago, John Nightwalker witnessed the destruction of his Native American village and the murder of his wife.

Green Gone Wrong explores how the conversion from a «petro» to a «green» society affects the most fundamental aspects of life: food, shelter, and transportation and includes unintended consequences such as massive clear - cutting, destruction of native ecosystems, and grinding poverty.

In writing this neo-Western, McCarthy is giving the lie to the sentimental view of the west that the classic Western purveys, eliding the violence and racism involved in the destruction of native people, westward expansion, and the ideology of Manifest Destiny.

It was the death an destruction of the Native American Indians, the demise of the buffalo, and the utter disdatin for nature and common sense by «Christians» that forged «America».

Russian Pograms Crusades Jonestown Salem Witch Trials Holocaust the Protestant v Catholic conflicts Manifest Destiny of the North and South American destruction of Native cultures Ad Infinitum...

What a shame, then, that Christian missionaries have tended to believe that conversion necessitated the destruction of Native American religion and culture.

Not exact matches

The palm fruit oil we source is not linked to the destruction of old growth rain forests, the release of greenhouse gases, the displacement of native people, or the extinction of orangutans or Sumatran tigers (which only live in Borneo and Sumatra in Indonesia).

Felling of native forests in this region, burning of the land and cereal monocultures have led to a continued destruction and alteration of the structure and function of the ecosystem.

Clashes between natives and the settler Fulani population have often led to bloodshed, death, rape and destruction of crops and property on either side.

«The first suspect, Morris Ashwe 36 yrs Native of Mbajima Village Katsina Ala LGA Benue State confessed and admitted to have been supplying firearms and ammunition to the notorious and most wanted vicious and notorious gang leader of militia, murderers and kidnappers Terwase Akwaza aka Ghana who was declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force for the merciless killings of several innocent persons and wanton destruction of properties worth Millions of Naira, at ZakiBiam in Benue State on 20th March, 2017 and for other violent crimes such as Culpable Homicide, Mischief by Fire and Criminal Conspiracy and the killing of Mr. Deneen Igbana (late) the Special Adviser on Security to the Governor of Benue State.

Conventional techniques for recovering ancient human DNA typically require the destruction of bone or tooth tissue during analysis, and this has been a cause of concern for many Native and indigenous communities.

Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes — except that it won't work, says a University of Guelph ecologist.

Woodworth gives a stirring portrait of the hardworking environmentalists who are trying to restore landscapes to their former, untouched glory, but he also captures the dark side of the enterprise: it sometimes requires the brutal destruction of very large numbers of invasive species to make room for long - departed native ones.

«From a practical standpoint, the ability to direct the specific, addressable destruction of DNA... could have considerable functional utility, especially if the system can function outside of its native bacterial or archaeal context,» they wrote.

Palm oil, the leading constituent in most MCT oils, is typically harvested from native palm forests, contributing to the destruction of some of the last remaining habitats for orangutans.

It can be read as a critique of the Industrial Revolution in Blackbeard's destruction of the «Lake District,» or a similar critique of Imperialism and crimes against native cultures — though that one tends towards an ugly paternalism.

For example, when students visit the rain forest, they might see a puppet show, listen to a native healer, eat dishes prepared from bananas, or walk on logs to simulate the destruction of the rain forest.

If we are serious about saving native wildlife and birds, we should take a good look at ourselves; humans are vastly more responsible for the destruction of endangered species than feral cats are.

* Human impact: Loss of habitat due to development, radio / TV / cellular phone towers, high - rise glass buildings, power lines, wind turbines, wetland destruction to name a few have had the greatest impact on the decline of native species around the world.

Finding homes for these animals means those homes are not available for rescued animals, and even these pets may end up contributing to the feral population which contributes to the destruction of the natural habitat of «native» animals such as birds.

The ship is later shot down above the undocumented planet Mira by one of the races responsible for Earth's destruction, forcing a crash landing among a wild untamed alien world full of both hostile and friendly native races.

A fighter, he survived the destruction of his community and joined forces with a growing contingent of native Templars who sought renewed peace and order.

From the destruction of King George's likeness at Bowling Green, to the paving over of Native American earthworks, to the debasement of Penn Station and the ongoing disappearing acts of ballparks and churches, it's becoming more and more clear that American architecture is an architecture of impermanence.

George Catlin was a man with a mission; back in 1830s America nothing much was being done to stop the invading of Native American's lands and the destruction of their way of life.

Works of art can fully embody the promesse du bonheur only when they have been uprooted from their native soil and have set out along the path to their own destruction.

But I accept your point: newsprint has historically been one of the biggest sources of demand for pulp, and that demand led to the destruction of many native pine forests in the region where I grew up, the South.

I was watching an old German TV documentary about Tarawa a few days ago, it was sad to see how the natives have been destroying the shoreline, on top of the destruction caused by the Japanese in WWII as they hardened the island to withstand a US invasion.

In addition to climate changes and animal extinction, we are threatening the culture of native peoples that live within the rain forests with continued rain forest destruction.

«we are threatening the culture of native peoples that live within the rain forests with contined rain forest destruction»

Some of the major human activities responsible for the destruction of wetlands in India include hydrologic alteration, agricultural activities, pollution, legal - policy failures, direct deforestation in wetlands, inundation by dammed reservoirs, degradation of water quality, global climate change effects, ground - water depletion and introduced species — extinction of native biota.

The civil discord and environmental destruction that Knab and Kushner orchestrated here in Wyoming County, NY, is reminiscent of Native Americans who sold Manhattan for a bunch of beads, their naiveté taken advantage of by those who could not care less about them.

Many otherwise genuine environmentalists are assisting the destruction of grasslands with their native pastures and endangered grass birds.

Native to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, the woodpecker species is believed to have gone extinct with the complete destruction of its habitat from logging, with nary a sighting after 1956.

From a child of the Peoples Revolution in China, to a genius banned from sharing his music in his native Iran, to a native Syrian witness to his country's destruction, to a sensuous Spanish woman whose spark for life mesmerizes her audiences, it is an incredible journey of love and life.

(27) Section 47B thus provides some relief from the otherwise inevitable destruction of Indigenous land ownership and culture as a result of the extinguishment of native title.

One expert recognised that the lack of written historical records, partly because of destruction of those records, impacted on the conclusions they could make about the Larrakia people.43 The court found that native title rights and interests did not exist over the claim area.

The armoury of procedural rights under the original NTA (such as the right to negotiate) that protected native title from destruction or impairment as a result of commercial or government developments was similarly eroded by the amendments to the NTA.

The Commission submits that in conformity with the guarantee of equality, the rights of indigenous minorities and freedom of religion, and consistent with the common law presumption against extinguishment of a proprietary interest and constitutional jurisprudence in relation to the acquisition of property, sub-sec 223 (1) should be construed in a manner which promotes the resilience of native title, rather than its fragility and susceptibility to destruction forever.

The result in substance of applying such method is to exclude a statutory or common law view of native title which exposes it to the degree of piece - meal and accreting partial destruction as the majority of the Full Court held.

Of all the areas that aim to address our disadvantage, the native title system goes to the heart of providing redress for the impact of our dispossession from our lands, territories and resources, and the destruction of our cultures and our identitieOf all the areas that aim to address our disadvantage, the native title system goes to the heart of providing redress for the impact of our dispossession from our lands, territories and resources, and the destruction of our cultures and our identitieof providing redress for the impact of our dispossession from our lands, territories and resources, and the destruction of our cultures and our identitieof our dispossession from our lands, territories and resources, and the destruction of our cultures and our identitieof our cultures and our identities.