Sentences with phrase «entire island ecosystems»

But humans have introduced rodents and predators such as feral cats and foxes to many of these islands, devastating native wildlife and changing entire island ecosystems.

These novel disturbances decimate native island wildlife and change entire island ecosystems.

Not exact matches

Now, entire swathes of the Great Barrier Reef are suffering from «complete ecosystem collapse,» marine researcher Justin Marshall said after spending a week conducting surveys near Lizard Island in the northern region of the reef.

Windborne takes place on a floating island inhabited by creatures called Djinn, who have recently undergone a calamity that has disrupted their entire ecosystem.

Island of Svarga: Jump in the hovercraft and take the guided tour of this amazing recreation of an entire ecosystem.

10/7/15 — In a significant shift detailed in the New York Times, many environmentalists are now arguing that conservation must work on a larger scale, focusing not on preserving single species in small islands of wilderness but on large landscapes and entire ecosystems, and on the benefits that nature provides to humans.

Although this island and similar ones are protected to some extent by the designation of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in 2006 and the closing of all fishing in the area by 2011, they are threatened by potential impacts of global change, which is likely to affect marine ecosystems across the entire Hawaiian Archipelago.

Signed by Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla Miranda in an Executive Decree on Thursday March 3, the declaration formalizes the creation of the new marine protected area surrounding Cocos Island National Park to improve the conservation of this unique oceanic island, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos IIsland National Park to improve the conservation of this unique oceanic island, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos Iisland, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos IslandIsland.