Sentences with phrase «find native vegetation»

He had to climb the tallest mountains to find native vegetation and the pitiful remnants of its fauna.

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Their findings suggest that maintaining native seawater vegetation could locally lessen the acidifying effects of rising CO2 levels on marine animals who are sensitive to ocean pH, which has declined since preindustrial times.

Here you will find barren, windswept bluffs, native vegetation and a tidal wetland frequented by migratory birds and wild deer.

Arriving at Tahiti on 15 November he soon found interest in luxuriant vegetation and the pleasant intelligent natives who showed the benefits of Christianity, refuting allegations he had read about tyrannical missionaries overturning indigenous cultures.