Sentences with phrase «forest habitat for»

During the late 20th century their numbers were devastated by hunting and the loss of their forest habitat for logging and rubber plantations.

All those hotels and shops built within the protected areas for the tourists are cutting down on actual forest habitat for the endangered big cats.

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Available rocks, logs or forest litter are spread to provide habitat for local fauna.

The most significant shortcoming in the Plan may be that it allows for significant continued industrial logging in already excessively disturbed critical habitat for woodland caribou in the boreal forest.

This is often abandoned after a few years because it is not really suitable for this purpose, but the destruction of forest cover and animal habitat has long - lasting consequences.

As forests are slashed for cocoa production, this also leaves less shade for the plants to protect them from the sun, not to mention the habitat that is destroyed for wildlife.

Forests also provide habitat for 80 percent of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and livelihoods for 1.6 billion people.

Two Landscape Management Boards (LMB) will provide participatory forest landscape governance, helping to monitor and control the surrounding 61,190 hectares (151,139 acres) of forest reserves, which are critically important habitat for the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and other species.

Goals included reforestation and creation of forest corridors to improve habitat, especially for migratory birds, and working with coffee farmers to re-establish shade trees and convert to organic production.

Under low prices, farmers anticipate clearing forest for cereal, corn, or khat crops, or large government - sponsored sun coffee farms, threatening habitats of all types.

Research has shown that in the Dominican Republic, shade coffee farms had more males than females [3,5], indicating that shade coffee farms were a good substitute for tall forest habitats.

We are helping to preserve crucial habitat for thousands of distinct plants and animals that need large intact tracts of forest to survive.

In general, the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses as the land and forests must be cleared for development of plantations.

(citation needed) Shaded Kona cultivation systems show greater biodiversity than full - sun systems, and those more distant from continuous forest compare rather poorly to undisturbed native forest in terms of habitat value for some bird species.

True wild - turkey habitat — mature forests for roosting and for the turkey diet of fruits, nuts and buds — was disappearing.

That they are endangered in many places in Central America, but Belize has the healthiest population of jaguars in the region because Belize has so much intact forest; there is a habitat for them.

During this engaging program students will listen to a guided imagery story while sitting in a natural setting; learn the life cycle of a bird through imaginary play and determine what makes a good home for specific native animals as they explore and compare the resources available in forest and field habitats.

Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

While exploring field, forest, and wetland habitats, students will search for the food, water, and shelter their animal needs for survival.

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds, including the coordination of Mass Audubon's Foresters for the Birds program.

Careful site selection for renewable facilities of all types is important to minimize the loss and fragmentation of wildlife habitat and forests that sequester carbon.

As farms disappear and forests return, the large swaths of hay fields and similar habitats that bobolink require for breeding and raising young continue to shrink in size and number.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

It is a perfect setting for numerous outdoor recreational activities, including picnicking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, and birdwatching and this forest offers numerous recreational opportunities and provides habitat to a variety of wildlife species.

In the long term, the species requires more habitat, which perhaps could be accomplished by making the adjacent federal land in Siuslaw National Forest suitable for martens.

Furthermore, B. nipponica adults have intrinsic traits that may facilitate their actions as dispersal agents for this mycoheterotrophic herb: (1) their abundance in the plant habitat; (2) they are ground - dwelling, which means they defecate on the forest floor where M. humile's fungal partners, Russulaceae, reside; and (3) the long transit times of seeds through their gut (3 - 10 h) providing occasional long - distance seed dispersal.

The mangrove forests along tropical and subtropical coastlines provide myriad benefits: They buffer against waves and wind, inhibit erosion, create habitat for wildlife and fish, and prevent saltwater intrusion into rivers and streams.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the habitat of breeding colonies in Louisiana's Pearl River Basin, for instance, but bird numbers held steady, researchers noted in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

If we can conserve that forest or wetlands or grasslands that are being lost and emitting CO2 into the atmosphere, we are also conserving habitat for the wildlife of the Earth; so Congo basin, Amazon rainforest, the wetlands of Southeast Asia, the peat forests of Southeast Asia and on and on — and also the Alaskan frontier.

However, there could be a silver lining in that degraded forests, once considered unsuitable, may actually be a suitable habitat for the apes.

Until then, the valuable trees will provide habitat for forest - dwelling animals and seed for the future forest.

«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

The CEAP assessment, led by Jeffery Larkin, professor of biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and forest bird habitat coordinator with the American Bird Conservancy, evaluates the effectiveness of young forest management in creating quality habitat for the golden - winged warbler and other wildlife species.

Technically the state is respon - sible for managing wildlife, while the Forest Service manages only the wildlife habitat.

Nor should you, ecologists add: Bark beetle outbreaks should be allowed to happen as part of the forest's life cycle, and the dead spruces provide habitat for many species.

Overhunting has been disastrous for elephants, but their forest habitats have also been caught in the crossfire.

The tropical forests of the Amazon, for example, were being fragmented by logging and burning, resulting in a patchwork of good and bad habitat.

«As vital carbon sinks and habitats for millions of people and imperilled wildlife, it is well known that forest protection is essential for any environmental solution — yet not all forests are equal,» said Professor James Watson of WCS and the University of Queensland.

Toohey said the two studies strongly suggest that permafrost loss is leading to massive changes in hydrology within the Arctic and boreal forests that may have consequences for the carbon cycle, fish and wildlife habitat and other parts of the ecosystem.

Wind developers that cooperate with the guidelines will avoid dividing important habitats like forests and grasslands, thus maintaining their suitability for wildlife.

(Reuters)- Conservation groups on Friday hailed a court decision that blocks Montana from building roads and logging in nearly 37,000 acres of a state forest that serves as core habitat for protected grizzly bears.

And shrimp farming (which provides well over one million metric tons of shrimp annually, about 25 percent of all shrimp consumed) has been linked to the destruction of almost half of the world's mangroves: coastal forests that absorb carbon dioxide and provide essential habitat for wild fish species.

Some 500,000 acres of boreal forest in Ontario and Alberta alone — key habitat for caribou, lynx, wolves and scores of birds — are felled each year to provide pulp for disposable paper.

One of the management activities that the park is really focusing on is especially on these woodlands, of restoring the forest floor and make sure that leaves remain, not raking them up and when branches fall, letting them remain in place so that they could decompose, this again because it's going to restore the whole forest system and also it's good foraging habitat for all these wild birds we are seeing here, kicking through the underbrush and kicking through the leaves looking for worms and other insects and other invertebrates.

The authors showed that after the initial waves of human arrival, mammal extinctions followed, presumably first caused by hunting and later by forest clearing for agriculture, which reduces the habitat for native mammals.

Just as preserving forests offers a chance to sequester carbon and curb climate change, preventing the disruption of coastal habitats, which are often razed for development or aquaculture, ensures that their deep carbon deposits are not released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

As is the case for so many threatened species, the breakup of their habitat sounded the death knell for tamarins, depriving them of the continuity of forest they require to remain abundant and safe from potential threats in any single vicinity.

They modelled relationships between environmental factors in the forest and where possums occurred to assign habitat suitability values, expressed as a percentage of the optimal habitat for the species, to both the current reserve system and possible expanded systems.

In the Huangnihe conservation district, a patchwork of old growth forest and reforested former logging areas adjacent to Jilin's two main tiger habitat reserves, Huangnihe forest reserve director Li Cheng is working with scientists and conservation groups to find alternative jobs for locals, for example by training loggers and poachers as organic honey farmers.

Population pressure from the reserve's human residents is to blame for most of the destruction of the forest and panda habitat, the scientists say.