Sentences with phrase «ecologically significant area»

The town lies in the centre of a United Nations World Biosphere Reserve, an ecologically significant area that supports many uncommon plant and animal species.

In the face of the many significant impacts of climate change, more can and should be done to collaborate and include appropriate opportunity for Indigenous Knowledge contribution in the design of solutions, not to mention the ongoing management and preservation of biodiverse and ecologically significant areas.

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Tracy Brook Wildlife Sanctuary gives Mass Audubon an opportunity to preserve an ecologically significant and locally popular natural area.

Scientists and diplomats have identified scores of ecologically significant ocean areas that could benefit from international recognition.

The advisory panel, which met last week in Montreal, Canada, tackled a wide range of issues, including identifying so - called ecologically or biologically significant marine areas, including those in waters not controlled by a specific nation.

Such data could guide the United Nations» effort to designate a series of ecologically or biologically significant marine areas to focus future conservation efforts, Halpin notes.

To fill this gap, the researches mapped wilderness areas — biologically and ecologically intact landscapes that are free of any significant human disturbance — and compared their current map to the one produced using the same methods in the early 1990s.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is recognized regularly as an ecologically significant place with tremendous biodiversity, but which is also in close proximity to the greater Los Angeles area - one of the largest human population centers in the country.