Sentences with phrase «fragile habitats»

The work took him to some of the most remote places on the island in search of fragile habitats where the insects make their last stand.

With your help, we will protect fragile habitats and promote the health of local wildlife populations.

One of the indisputable facts of climate change is the rapid melting of the Arctic, which is destroying fragile habitats and making vast reserves of fossil fuels accessible for...

One way you can help mountain golden heather is by heeding area - closed signs on public lands, which often mark fragile habitats or species easily damaged by foot traffic.

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

That the industrial devastation of a thriving local ecology or neighborhood, or the loss of fragile habitats and biological diversity, is to be lamented and, if possible, averted?

The residents fear any development of the property, located immediately northeast of Lake Arlington, would destroy the fragile habitat frequented by an assortment of birds, deer and small mammals.

Disproportionately, the scientists say, recently discovered species live in fragmented, fragile habitats — and therefore they, too, may number among those that are most threatened.

«These fragile habitats are threatened by increased urbanization, recreation, and climate change.

It may also favour rival plants that thrive in nitrogen - rich soils, allowing them to invade these fragile habitats.

Since cold water reefs grow incredibly slowly — about 5 mm per year — and are fragile habitats, we were looking at novel techniques that could be used on a reef to asses metabolism with little impact on the reef structures,» says Dr. Lorenzo Rovelli, Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), visiting researcher at the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE), Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark.

The intent was good - natured: The researcher wrote in this month's issue of ZooKeys that he hopes it brings attention to the need to protect the country's fragile habitats.

«Coupled with their better - known role as predators, our study underlines another, less obvious role played by reef sharks in improving the resilience of these fragile habitats and underscores the vital importance of conserving these and other wide - ranging predators,» said senior co-author David Jacoby of the Zoological Society of London's Institute of Zoology.

«Deep - sea areas targeted by mining claims frequently harbor high biodiversity and fragile habitats, and may have very slow rates of recovery from physical disturbance,» said Craig Smith, a co-author and professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

But there are many unknowns about the current status of 11 species of marine mammals who depend on Arctic sea ice to live, feed and breed, and about how their fragile habitat will evolve in a warming world.

Given the threats these fragile habitats are facing, there is a strong imperative to conserve them,» said Mr Ramit.

Given our commitment to present and future generations, we must act now with resolution and authority to protect and recover snow leopard populations and their fragile habitats for all people to enjoy.

Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geopark continues to work towards a long term solution with relevant authorities to conserve this fragile habitat while still allowing visitors to appreciate and enjoy this stunning landscape.

The fragile habitat is also home to millions of birds, land mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and marine mammals like the elephant seals that feed, birth, breed, molt, and rest in the lands and waters surrounding the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse.

Radiation release into the Pacific Ocean could endanger precious marine and coastal resources and fragile habitats, as well.

With no more than 800 individuals left in a fragile habitat, the Tapanuli orangutan could face extinction not long after we became aware of its existence.

For somewhat murky reasons (health, safety of fragile habitats), press has been repeatedly forbidden to enter