Sentences with phrase «extensive areas of forest»

Once ignited, these fires are particularly difficult to extinguish despite extensive rains, weather changes or firefighting attempts, and can persist for long periods of time (months, years), spreading deep (5 meters) and over extensive areas of forest subsurface.

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The reintroduction has been hampered by rules that require recapture of wolves who set up territories outside the narrowly defined recovery area and that do not allow release of captive wolves into New Mexico's Gila National Forest, where there's extensive suitable habitat.
Although it is 7,970 feet (2,439 meters) above sea level, the Machu Picchu area is in the midst of the extensive tropical forest on the eastern slope of Peru's southern mountains
Spectacular vertical granite peaks, immense rivers of ice, wind - swept plains and native beech forests define this spot of intense rugged beauty in the South of Chili and Argentina, where the Andes mountains are covered by the most extensive area of glaciers outside the world's polar regions.
The region has an extensive network of over 60 km of track and trails through the nearby natural parks and forest area and it's surely an added value as these bikes a free for you -LSB-...]
Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which buffeted the east coast of India and caused extensive damage to Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu, left the neighbouring area of Pichavaram, covered in a dense mangrove forest, relatively unharmed.
In tropical regions, extensive areas of secondary forests exist.
Pine beetles are a natural part of the life cycle in Western forests, but this outbreak, under way for more than a decade in some areas, is by far the most extensive ever recorded.
Kerry has extensive experience in farms and estates as well as some of the more specific property requirements of residents of the New Forest and surrounding area.
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