Sentences with phrase «existing protected areas»

But while the authors seem confident that Brazil's existing protected areas will be enough to stave off large - scale drying in the Amazon, a number of other recently published papers (see «related articles» below) suggest a less rosy outlook.

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.

We suggest that the conservation of selectively logged forests represents a highly cost - efficient opportunity to enlarge existing protected areas, improve connectivity between them, and to create new, large protected areas.

In the 1980s two existing protected areas — Red Rock and Angourie — were merged to create the super-sized Yuraygir National Park.

«The approach in making a corridor a reality is multi-pronged and involves a strong investment from the local community, especially when developing corridors that use existing protected areas as «stepping stones,» as private land will inevitably be involved to varying degrees in and around the corridor,» the study concludes.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

«If the level of funding for Africa's protected areas can be increased,» Lindsey says, «there's no reason why the existing protected areas couldn't carry a lot more lions.»

However, existing protected areas are currently too focused on protecting only forest biodiversity, while equally - important freshwater ecosystems are being neglected.

Not exact matches

The legal institutions, which existed were to protect the status and power of the ruling Yangban class; therefore they functioned punitively turning the people into the victims of the local magistrates, who were the administrators in judicial and other areas.

In particular the low - cost power generated at the Niagara Power Project has protected thousands of existing area jobs, and assisted in making our area attractive to new ventures such as the Yahoo Data Center.

As more people move into this area of the borough the pressure on the existing housing stock is at a breaking point, and we need to do everything that we can to protect it.

The plan aims to create affordable housing units, protect existing ones, and strengthen the economy of the area proposed for rezoning, which contains East New York, Cypress Hills, and Ocean Hill.

Only a thousand protected areas existed in 1962, representing 3 percent of the earth's surface.

The team determined that there are opportunities to establish additional protected areas in some lowland Amazonian regions of Peru, where they found very high carbon densities, as well as in the so - called sub-montane region, which exists between the lowland Amazonian and Andean highland regions.

By examining an old crevasse along Bayou Lafourche, a precursor of the Mississippi River, the researchers found that mud can build enough land to keep up with sea level rise if the diversion flows into existing vegetated areas protected from marine forces.

These polymorphic zones, underrepresented by existing global protected area networks, indicate hot spots for evolutionary rescue in a changing climate.

Located in an area of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion - Clipperton Zone (CCZ), the plan honored existing mining exploration claims while protecting delicate habitats by creating a network of MPAs.

Many of the mission's ROV dives took place in or directly adjacent to Cuba's extensive network of marine protected areas (MPAs), providing an opportunity to explore locations for potential creation of new MPAs or expansion of existing boundaries.

Shielding vulnerable structures using large - scale metamaterials — which inhibit the propagation of incoming seismic waves through interference effects — could help to protect a much wider area without any direct modification to existing buildings in the region.

«While the momentum around the creation of new marine protected areas is exciting, it's essential that we don't leave existing MPAs behind,» said Gabby Ahmadia, WWF's lead marine scientist.

While it was previously known that Andean bears existed in the sanctuary, the new survey's findings reveal a much wider presence of bears throughout the protected area.

Climate change raises a triple threat that existing marine protected areas were not designed to defend against.

The reefs observed during this research occur primarily outside of the local protected Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, which means they exist in areas where destructive trawling is permitted and active.

Despite making great strides in protecting miners» and community health, compensating former miners and their families, and cleaning up uranium mill sites, significant problems stemming from the legacy of uranium development still exist today in the Four Corners Area.

In 2007 the Raja Ampat Regency government declared 6 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), prior to which only 1 MPA existed, Southwest Waigeo.

The Preserve is protected open space and acts as a gateway to existing and future protected coastal resource areas nearby, via trails linking the Goleta Monarch Grove, Ellwood Shores coastal bluffs, Santa Barbara Shores County Park, the Devereux Slough and the beach.

In 1977 they designated Manu as a World Biosphere Reserve because it contains the best existing example of bio-diversity in protected areas of rain forest, as well as endemic areas of cloud forest.

Given their potential cost - effectiveness, logged forests represent an opportunity to increase connectivity between protected areas and to enlarge existing parks, two goals that are becoming increasingly urgent in Southeast Asia as existing parks are illegally degraded or become increasingly isolated by conversion of adjacent areas to oil palm plantations and other agricultural lands.

Although the report has been withheld from the public, nearly 100,000 comments were received with 99 percent in favor of retaining the existing boundaries of the protected ocean areas.

But just four days later, he directly undermined his own message, when his administration issued the final permit allowing Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic, despite the administration's own assessment that the chances of a significant oil spill in the area were 75 % — not to mention that a good deal of existing known oil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warming.

The focus in project design remains primarily upon profit - making and greenwashing «Sustainable Forest Management», rather than necessary policies to ensure large areas of primary and old - growth forests are fully protected to optimally keep existing and new carbon sequestered.

From these projections, protected areas are expected to experience both disproportionate losses of existing climates as well as disproportionate gains in novel climates.

Check out this animated map to find out more about where marine protected areas exist, and what they're doing for sea life.

It makes the total area five times larger than the existing national park, and will include a fully protected no - fishing zone along with limited catch zones.

Among Dr. Klemens» chief duties will be to help Scenic Hudson urge developers to protect and enhance existing habitats and to identify opportunities for restoring degraded areas.

While laws do exist to protect ski area from lawsuits filed by injured skiers, it may be possible to file a lawsuit if negligent property maintenance — including open excavations, collisions with moving equipment, or a collision that occurs with heavy machinery parked around a blind corner — causes serious injury.

While it is likely right to be sceptical about efforts by existing practitioners to protect lucrative turf, it is also at least questionable whether it would be worth permitting ABS if the practical effect was primarily to partly consolidate the existing personal injury market rather to than expand the legal services that are provided in other areas.

Within Australia, despite the existing evidence base in this area, mechanisms that protect and maintain Indigenous traditional knowledge remain significantly inadequate at all levels of government.

Despite the existing evidence base in this area, mechanisms that protect and maintain Indigenous knowledge remain inadequate at both the international and the domestic level in Australia.

The Fargo Moorhead Area Association of REALTORS ® exists to: Protect the rights of individual real estate ownership and the real estate industry, Provide the products and services that enhance the REALTOR ®'s value in the real estate transaction, Promote and enforce the REALTOR Code of Ethics.

It is my view that investors should be wary when purchasing condos in the Denver area, because I tend to believe that the mounting pressure to protect builders and incentivize them to bring condos to the region will drive down the price of existing condos over time.