Sentences with phrase «for native vegetation»

Environmentalists on local councils have allowed roadsides to become conservation zones for native vegetation, raising the risk of intense bushfires on access roads and jeopardising residents» safety.

Known for its native vegetation, wildlife, and cultural history, Anacapa Island is truly an unsurpassed natural beauty.

Not exact matches

Under the agreement a perpetual restrictive covenant has been placed on the 121.7 ha which will require the area to be maintained and managed for its value as native vegetation with improvement of its assessed habitat score from 7/10 to 8/10 over a 20 - year period.

The local and downstream environmental benefits of watering throughout the system and down into the Lower Lakes and Coorong include assisting native fish spawning and movement, improving the health of native vegetation, supporting waterbirds and increasing food sources for native species.

Keeping native vegetation such as natural forests or grasslands as fragments within production areas or along streams and rivers can make a lot of difference for conservation.

Over 5,300 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered to Hattah Lakes in spring 2015 to provide improved habitat and food resources for native fish and waterbirds, and support the ongoing reestablishment of water dependant vegetation.

Re-establishment of flood - tolerant bank vegetation following the millennium drought will provide habitat for a number of native species and also assist with bank stability during natural floods and heavy rainfall.

The use of environmental water will help to contribute towards improving native vegetation condition, reducing the local impacts of salinity and supporting waterbirds and frogs that rely on the region's wetlands for reproduction and survival.

A total of 367 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat throughout the River Murray for improving the condition, movement and recruitment of native fish — both silver (critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and golden perch were detected spawning in the Mid Murray in response to flow variability; improve riparian and wetland vegetation condition; and contribute to the managed export of salt from the River Murray system.

A secondary benefit to the delivery of an in - channel action for native fish outcomes was that the flow delivered benefits the length of the system and contributed to hydrological connectivity and vegetation outcomes in the terminal wetlands.

In other words, a coffee farm with less than 15 percent native vegetation cover could be Rainforest Alliance certified and remain so for years as long as they had a management plan to progressively increase this amount.

In 2017 - 18, Commonwealth environmental water will continue to build on the positive responses of vegetation from past environmental watering and natural flows; and provide habitat and recruitment opportunities for waterbirds, native fish, turtles and frogs.

In the Mallowa system, 204 ha of wetlands were inundated with Water for the environment during 2015 - 16, promoting the growth of native vegetation communities.

Residual inundation in the Gingham and Gwydir wetland from environmental water delivered in 2014 - 15 helped maintain native vegetation communities and provided habitat for waterbirds and frogs early in 2015 - 16.

For example, herbicide - resistant crops engineered to withstand weed killers like glyphosate breed with native vegetation to create «super weeds» that can no longer be controlled with herbicide.

Researchers say that while PAs can counter agricultural expansion — and many have increasingly called for PAs to expand across the planet amid dire evidence of rapid species decline — the limits on land that can be set aside for PAs means that biodiversity conservation success depends on protecting native vegetation on private lands.

As people burn forests for agriculture and grazing, as they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species loss.

Animals such as white - tailed deer, the Florida panther and migratory birds that depend on native vegetation, such as mangrove, for food and shelter are deprived of that habitat.

Illegal logging and slash - and - burn practices to clear land for farming — two major sources of income for impoverished Malagasy — have destroyed most of the country's native vegetation, including 90 % of its original forests.

First, the end of rabbit overgrazing allowed native vegetation to grow back, providing food and shelter for mice and mulgaras.

«We've shown that cropland recycles less water annually back into the atmosphere than native Cerrado vegetation,» said Stephanie Spera, a graduate student at Brown University in the department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science and a researcher at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES).

For some time conservationists have made aware of the fact that the rapidly growing number of brown Spanish slugs is replacing the native black slug in Central Europe as well as inflicting significant damage on natural vegetation and agricultural products.

Regardless, it is also an appreciation of native vegetation or urban forests, responsible for various ecosystem services, such as the maintenance of air wetter and milder and stable temperatures.

Interestingly they only do this when the fire has been particularly intense, leaving no pockets of unburnt vegetation behind for native animals to hide in.

Built into the highest point at the Golden Gate, Battery 129 had two large guns mounted under thick concrete shields covered with native vegetation for camouflage and virtually invisible from above.

Santa Barbara Island: On Santa Barbara Island, efforts are underway to restore seabird nesting habitat for Scripps's murrelets and Cassin's Aucklets by removing non-native plants and planting native vegetation to improve seabird habitat.

Weirs Cove, a landing, which was a critical point of entry for supply ships for light keepers and their families, its original ruins stand amongst native vegetation today.

The island offers opportunities for bird watching, and even plant gazing, now that native vegetation is recovering from damage done by farming, grazing and the introduction of non-native rabbits.

Once in Hana, the group will learn about the culture, history, land, native vegetation and plants of the area before returning back to the 15 - acre beachfront Andaz Maui for a cooking class in the resort's signature restaurant, Ka'ana Kitchen.

The cane farm provides the perfect backdrop for a horse ride or ATV tour as it's an impressive mixture of the tall sugar cane grasses and native Australian bush land with a little bit of tropical rainforest vegetation with streams and the huge Billabong.

World famous for the Twelve Apostles, Loch Ard Gorge and historic shipwrecks, the Twelve Apostles Marine National Park encompasses significant vegetation and fauna native to south - western Victoria.

For now, setting aside acreage and letting it return to native vegetation was rated the best way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, outweighing the results of corn - ethanol production over the first 48 years.

The reasons for the declines remain speculative but vegetation succession, climatic fluctuations, predation by native and exotic species, competition from other frog species, and water pollution caused by pesticides and / or other chemicals associated with agriculture are possibly significant (Harding 1997, Lannoo 1998, Hammerson 1999, Hammerson and Livo 1999).

In Chicago, the green roof we helped design for City Hall is covered with mostly native vegetation, which offers urban habitat to the butterflies and birds of the region.

NSW, which has lately loosened its native vegetation clearing laws, received 44 per cent of that $ 1.4 billion for 136 vegetation - related projects.

Fundación Abril ($ 35,000): To restore Bolivia's polluted Rocha River, a source of irrigation water for local farms, by training local students and neighbors to manage a water treatment plant, reforest riverbanks with native vegetation, and build a composting system.

For example, the City of Seattle reduced runoff by 97 percent the year after converting an open ditch stormwater drain to an attractive roadside swale garden, decreasing the width of the adjacent street and planting native vegetation.

Native plants are important for local pollinators that can be fooled by imported vegetation resulting in death or eggs not hatching.