Sentences with phrase «for ecological reasons»

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It is true that the area being farmed has diminished, but that is explained in fact by EU rules requiring set - aside for ecological reasons and to reduce the productivity of European farms, to avoid the vast surpluses that were created in the days of the EEC.

The Local cantons pay the farmers grants in a number of forms of which one is for ecological reasons, that is to say to farm in a green fashion and one that will enhance the local environment.

Social monogamy evolved many times across mammals as a male mating strategy in species where females are widely spaced for ecological reasons.

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Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

There are reasons for believing that the group most able to appreciate the ecological dimensions of the emerging crisis — population, pollution, use of resources — may well be prosperous white Americans, especially their children.

Christianity, in contrast to ancient paganism and Asia's religions, has not only established a dualism of man and nature, but has also insisted that it is God's will that man exploit nature for his proper ends... Hence we shall continue to have a worsening ecological crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence, save to serve man.

There is a good reason for that: Although rainforests cover only 2 percent of the earth's surface, these ecological powerhouses are critical to nearly every aspect of the planet's health — including our very ability to breathe.

The project may seem whimsical, but there are serious ecological reasons for bringing aurochs back onto the scene.

They discovered that 19 behaviors, such as using a fist to amplify sound or using a tool held in the mouth to poke a hole in a tree and pull out chunks of termite nests, ants, or honey for a snack, appeared at some sites but not at others, and there was no ecological reason to account for these differences.

The species are important for both ecological and economic reasons, according to Eric Palkovacs, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and first author of the paper.

Invasion biology's florid competition to hyperbolize the alien threat suggests that Elton's omission of «scientific» or «ecological» among his reasons for conservation was well considered.

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«The main reason for our focus on the Burgundy truffle is the species» wide ecological and thus geographical distribution, which allows us to compile fruit bodies over a wide range of environments.

There are many different reasons for vegetarianism, personal, political, ethical, religious, ecological, and so on.

Though a vegetarian diet may be adopted for cultural, religious or ecological reasons, a primarily plant - based diet also brings health benefits.

The reason for that is that their genes were shaped in different ecological niches.»

It's an ideal and the most ecological transport in the world, but the reason why I am telling you all this is the following: what kind of summer outfits can be used for riding bicycle?

The project documents the effectiveness of instructional practices that are likely to enhance multistep reasoning, systems thinking, conceptual and spatial understanding, and motivation for learning while learning to work with maps to solve problems involving geography and ecological awareness.

We used to carry a size called T12; these are gradually being phased out for good ecological reasons.

Jon Weiner of Nation magazine moderated, introducing four authors with new environmental books on cars, smog, environmental philanthropists, and the ecological reasons for world conflicts.

If you had to pick an ecological concern as the prime reason for China to restrain raw growth, would it be carbon emissions or water shortages?

We engage in this odd form of on - again - off - again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons.

Fish catch is a key ecological indicator for a number of reasons: it allows us to have a proxy to track local ocean health (albeit inaccurately), it allows us to track species, protein consumption by humans, etc..

Subsidies for electric cars and trucks, transmission lines, R&D for new battery technologies, air capture, and a National Energy Education Act can be supported for ecological, national security, or economic reasons.

Indeed, though I believe that while people like Chris Packham (and Prince Charles; George Monbiot; Al Gore; David Attenborough; Robert Redford; Mikhail Gorbachev; Ted Turner; et al) may believe what they do for the noblest of reasons, their ecological philosophy is fundamentally evil.

If you care at all about how much gas you buy, either for monetary or ecological reasons, this feedback will gradually change the way you drive and turn you into a more fuel efficient driver.

There are also reasons to believe that the effects of television may in fact be different by different levels of parental education and cognitive ability.13,16,18 - 20 Jordan19 has proposed an «ecological» paradigm for media research, in which the effects of television viewing may be different within distinct sociocultural niches.

Burgess and Drais propose that child maltreatment is too complex to be explained fully by genetic relatedness alone and cite other reasons for child maltreatment, such as social factors, ecological factors and child traits such as disability and age.