Sentences with phrase «endemic land»

You may also see the endemic land iguana.

We follow a trail that leads us to Swallow - tailed gulls, Blue - footed boobies and the endemic Land iguanas.

The Hawaiian Islands have long been thought to support just one endemic land mammal in the archipelago's brief geologic history, the Hawaiian hoary bat.

Not exact matches

Will future relationships develop in the context of this tradition or in the direction of the conflict which has also been endemic between Ethiopia and neighbouring Muslim lands?

Pope Francis has called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, «beginning with the beloved and long - suffering land of Syria» and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean peninsula and parts of Africa affected by «hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism».

She commented about the problem of getting developers to commit to actually building what they promise to build, and noted that this problem is endemic to the land use process in New York City generally.

They are endemic to New World arid lands except for one species, Rhipsalis baccifera, which is also found in southern Africa, Madagascar and Sri Lanka.

Platydemus manokwari, the New Guinea flatworm, consumes land snails and thus endangers endemic species.

With access to museum ornithological collections from areas of South America that Darwin had not visited, Gould corrected a number of taxonomic errors Darwin had made (such as labeling two finch species a «Wren» and an «Icterus») and pointed out to him that although the land birds in the Galpagos were endemic to the islands, they were notably South American in character.

Before the arrival of humans, Mauritius was a land of birds and reptiles; the only mammals endemic to the island were a few species of bats.

The individuals he is talking about are «Cartel Land's» twin protagonists, vigilantes from two different countries and two different cultures who are determined, each in his own way, to fight back against the endemic violence the Mexican drug cartels bring to everything they touch.

Eleven of the 60 species of land birds that have nested on the park islands are represented by endemic species or subspecies — forms that are found on the islands and nowhere else.

The island also hosts over 100 bird and three land mammal species, including the endemic island fox.

Learn the history of the islands and see endemic and native flora and fauna, including Land Iguanas and the ever - popular Giant Tortoise.

In regard to animals, Santa Fe is home to two endemic species and two endemic subspecies: the Barrington land iguana (Conolophus pallidus), the Barrington leaf - toed gecko (Phyllodactylus barringtonensis), [4] the Santa Fe marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus trillmichi) and the Santa Fe rice rat (Aegialomys galapagoensis bauri).

Day 3 Dry landing on San Cristobal and visit the breeding centre for endangered giant tortoises on the island's southern shore in the midst of a fantastic deciduous forest, home to many bird species including the endemic mockingbird and to the lava lizard.

Dry landing on San Cristobal and visit the breeding centre for endangered giant tortoises on the island's southern shore in the midst of a fantastic deciduous forest, home to many bird species including the endemic mockingbird and to the lava lizard.

Birding by Kayak Tour: On Sunday, June 3, beginner and expert birders alike will have the opportunity to see endemic species on land and sea on the birding by kayak tour.

The island fox is the largest endemic post-Pleistocene land mammal and a top predator on the Channel Islands.

Near the landing you should see the endemic Chatham Island shag.

Here, we can observe one of the few remaining land iguanas of the species endemic to Santa Fe Island.

This beautifully maintained garden spreads on 5 acres of land and has a vast collection of endemic and exotic plants.

In particular, the value for the conservation of the many rare and endemic species of flora and fauna would benefit from the inclusion or a stronger management consideration of the adjacent lands.

They share the land with endangered endemic animals like the Calamian deer, Palawan mouse deer, bear cat, leopard cat, tarsier, Palawan peacock pheasant, scaly anteater, porcupine, and monitor lizard.

The fact that it is endemic drought that threatens the Great Salt Lake in Utah, home to Smithson's beautiful, coiled extension of land into water, is darkly ironic: one human alteration to the landscape negatively impacted by another.

In these ecosystems, anthropogenic climate change is likely to combine with past land - use changes and biological invasions to drive several species such as endemic birds to extinction (Benning et al., 2002).

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

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Maybe it's because land use planning and zoning is so endemic to success of tiny houses that, no matter what community you're talking about, you're going to come up with interesting subject matter.

Chief among them are «traditional» air pollution such as car and truck exhaust and smokestack emissions; destruction of land and water from extracting and transporting fuels; and the militarism, economic inequality and political authoritarianism that is endemic to extractive economies (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Indonesia).

The world, however, is old, and war and theft are as endemic to our race as property, so only a very few pieces of land have not changed hands by war or theft at least once in that long history.

«The authors analyzed malaria statistics that were collected in Finland from 1750 to 2008 via correlation analyses between malaria frequency per million people and all variables that have been used in similar studies throughout other parts of Europe,» including temperature data, animal husbandry, consolidation of land by redistribution and household size... report that «malaria was a common endemic disease in Finland in the 18th and 19th centuries and prevalent in the whole country,» and they say that «mortality during malaria epidemics usually varied between 0.85 and 3 %.»

In the mediterranean - climate region of South Africa, climate change may have at least as significant an impact on endemic Protea species» extinction risk as land - use change does by 2020 (Bomhard et al., 2005).