Sentences with phrase «for endangered plant»

Semi-natural habitats are refuges for endangered plant species which in former times were found in meadows and arable fields.

Not exact matches

The country is renowned for its diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, like three - toed sloths, endangered white - faced capuchin monkeys and hundreds of different bird species.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

The wetland complex is home for 284 species of plants (including 108 regionally endangered, 11 state - wide endangered and 1 nationally endangered), 171 species of birds (making it a significant bird hotspot in South Australia and Australia), 47 species of reptiles, 13 species of mammals, 9 species of fish and 8 species of amphibians.

These findings are on the one hand relevant for the risk assessment of the transgenic plants: once released, these plants could spread to other rice varieties and endanger rice harvest.

Our mission is to conserve and promote America's culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.

We conserve and promote America's culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.

LINCOLN — Mass Audubon has been honored by the Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM) for its support of the state Endangered Species Act and commitment to vulnerable plants and animals.

«Demographic compensation may buy these endangered populations some precious time for climatic conditions to improve or to allow evolutionary processes to help the plant adapt to unfavorable conditions.»

This region features unique, highly diverse arid and semi-arid habitats inhabited by rare and endangered plants and animals, and provides a vital migratory stopping point for many species of birds and animals on their journey across the continent.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

At the same time, says Berry, the plants in the wild, which are rare to begin with, are becoming endangered as people dig the hefty tubers for collectors or for food.

Possingham recently analyzed endangered animals and plants in New Zealand and found that for the same budget required to save a single bird species there, the North Island brown kiwi, six other threatened species could be protected.

The species is listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), which means federal officials are required to come up with a so - called recovery plan for nursing the plant back to health.

The technology is invaluable for researchers who require mainly a record of static position, like archaeologists platting a dig or botanists recording the location of endangered plants.

Assisted colonization has already been used for plant species, such as Torreya taxifolia, an endangered conifer native to the Florida panhandle.

A team led by University of California, Santa Barbara plant ecologist Shelley Crausbay is studying high - elevation cloud forests that provide habitat for a number of rare birds, most of which are endangered.

«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.

Scientists climbed several rare and endangered tree species on Penang Hill to document the orchids, ferns, and epiphytes (or air plants) thriving at such heights and to press leaf samples for further study.

For the last six years, a team of Australian conservationists has been growing critically endangered native plants on the roofs of buildings in Melbourne.

Silver Springs State Park provides a natural habitat for numerous species, including 18 endemic and 10 endangered plant species, as well as habitat for resident and migratory birds, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

The global crisis for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled animals and plants rising at record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today.

Based on these findings, the researchers argue that I. araguaiaensis should be considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, an organization that assesses whether plants and animals are endangered.

Last July, the group planted endangered Torreya taxifolia seedlings in new habitat patches north of their customary domain in Florida, where it is becoming too hot for the conifers to survive.

High levels of noise pollution were also found in critical habitat for endangered species, namely in endangered plant and insect habitats.

The imperiled plants and animals who share our deserts, forests, rivers and oceans have much to be thankful for in the Endangered Species Act.

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On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018.

The Center has gained listing protections for more than 350 plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act.

Whether it is planting milkweed for an endangered butterfly species or donating excess crops from your edible schoolyard to the local food bank, there are many ways to make impact tangible for children.

It provides an opportunity for students to select an endangered or threatened mammal, reptile, insect, or plant; research and write their reports; provide pictures and photos; and submit them to the SchoolWorld site.»

Lupine (named for the unassuming host plant of the endangered Mission blue butterfly) is a first - year Red - tailed Hawk trapped, tagged, and outfitted with a transmitter on September 7, 2014, in the Marin Headlands.

Megan is explaining that everyone should step carefully around the white flags that mark lupine plants — hosts for the endangered mission blue butterfly.

Students accomplish a variety of restoration projects, from planting natives to monitoring habitat for the endangered Mission blue butterfly at Milagra Ridge and Mori Point.

Past projects have included maintaining trails, growing plants at our native plant nurseries, creating habitat for endangered species, restoring historic sailing ships, and building fences to protect sensitive park sites.

It's renowned for its vast diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, from three - toed sloths and endangered white - faced capuchin monkeys to hundreds of bird species.

Look out for the variety of wildlife and plant species at Fort Baker, including the endangered Mission Blue butterfly and its host plant, the silver lupine.

Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; draft recovery plan for four subspecies of island fox.

The 3,000 Mountain Almond trees planted will eventually provide food for endangered Great Green Macaws, endemic to Costa Rica's Caribbean region.

The area is currently planted with indigenous plants perfect for the survival of endangered New England cottontail rabbits - which sometimes may be seen at dusk and dawn by very quiet, very patient visitors!

She is researching the endangered plants of the Prairie in preparation for creating a series of prints with VanDeb Editions in New York this fall.

Its spectacular rocks and cliffs provide a habitat for 30 endemic plant species; 16 plant species that are globally threatened and 12 animal species that are also endangered.

Learn how biologists managed to bring back the endangered Short - Tail Albatross to nest on the atoll; meet Wisdom, a Laysan albatross who has been nesting on Midway for nearly 60 years; find out the strategies being used to eradicate invasive plant and animal species; discover the beauty of endangered Monk seals, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, corals and so much more.

Nash looks at current actions that also extend «rights» to the natural world; for example, the Endangered Species Act recognizes that species of animals and plants have rights.

Despite concluding in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, a finding that triggered their regulation under the 1970 Clean Air Act, it has taken years for the administration to take on the nation's fleet of power plants.

Spanning 11,000 square kilometers in area, the island is home to several species of endangered plants and animals, as well as tribes of Mangyan people who have lived sustainably from the island's natural resources for generations.

His growing list of executive orders and regulatory reviews is rapidly reversing eight years of Obama «Clean Power Plan,» «social cost of carbon,» and other regulatory decrees; laying the foundation for reversing the EPA's absurd finding that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide «endangers» human health and welfare; and putting the United States in a position to lead the world back from the brink of Paris pact pandemonium and wealth redistribution.

Voluntary carbon markets provide a way for companies to reduce their overall emissions by, say, saving endangered forests, or planting trees, or financing the construction of wind farms.

It is good for your health, saves you money, and helps to prevent global warming, saving the lives of humans, endangered plants, and endangered animals around the world.

But when plantations and processing plants move in, they clear cut vast tracts of tropical rainforest, destroying critical habitat for endangered species and violating the rights of forest - dependent communities.