Sentences with phrase «grazing lands»

There is a minimum of grazing land in Chile, so instead of beef being the major source of protein, it is fish and shellfish.

On the basis of her results, Silver projects that 28 million acres of grazing land in California could absorb 42 million tons of carbon dioxide — nearly 40 percent of what the state's electrical power plants produce in a year.

Farmers were able to bring back life to a once barren land left only to fallow or as grazing land for cattle.

Emissions from revegetation, forest management, and cropland and grazing land management — while not currently counted towards Australia's obligations under the Kyoto Protocol target — are eligible for the generation of carbon offset credits under NCOS.

Osinbajo said killings by violent herdsmen had been a perennial issue, especially as grazing lands continue to disappear over the years with the cattle feeding on people's crops on the farmlands.

Across the «middle belt» that separates Nigeria's north from its south, nomadic ethnic Fulani herdsmen, mostly Muslim, have clashed with indigenous, mostly Christian farmers over grazing land for generations, and the conflicts have intensified since 2011, according to the report.

Loure and UCRT, along with national and international partners, are now looking to replicate the CCRO model throughout Tanzania, with communal grazing lands of nearly 700,000 acres slated for titling in the next year or two.

It's been happening all along for the last several decades as big ag devastated environments from the Gulf of Mexico to the cattle grazing lands of the mid-West.

Deforestation occurs to create grazing land for cows.

In northern Kenya, a privately owned rhino reserve is guiding communities that are rewilding former grazing lands at the same time as it fosters lucrative tourism facilities in a region once devastated by poaching.

For cattle, 22 years and more than 36,000 fecal measurements suggest that plants on U.S. grazing lands have grown poorer in protein, ecologist Joseph Craine of Jonah Ventures, in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues reported April 10 in Environmental Research Letters.

Furthermore, when America was colonised there was nothing there to support a civilised way of life, and every bit of infrastructure apart from grazed land had to be built by the settlers themselves.

The setting, to be sure, is first century rural Galilee with its small towns and open farm and grazing land rather than contemporary urban America.

Crop substitution for a drier and warmer climate, converting cropland to livestock grazing land, and making better use of rainfall are proven methods.

The only inhabitants on Susac are the lighthouse keepers and sometimes a shepherd with his flock of sheep who comes to the island due to the specific grazing land.

As wild bison herds in Yellowstone National Park have expanded, they have spilled into nearby grazing lands for cattle, with more than 1,000 of the animals slaughtered in 2008 as a result.

Newhaven Park is a well - known property of 700 hectares, of prime grazing land consisting of a top quality Murray Grey Cattle Stud with outstanding equestrian facilities.

Newhaven Park is a well - known property of 700 hectares, of prime grazing land consisting of a top quality Murray Grey Cattle Stud with

Juniper trees and shrubs have improved the health of aquifers beneath formerly arid grazing land.

As bison must eat different grasses at different times of the year, they're rotated through different grazing lands, and that promotes sustainability.

Its spread along the eastern border over the past couple decades has turned lush pastoral grazing lands into arid desert, forcing these nomads to seek land elsewhere.

The ranch has changed: grazing land sits alongside a vineyard, which draws tourists to wine tastings.

That's why in 2001 Jagdeesh Rao founded the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) to help local villagers set up formal institutions -; like forest protection, management, and grazing land committees -; in order to better maintain publicly owned land.

Third, the annual federal costs... exceed the annual revenues generated from federal grazing lands.

This would obviously benefit all U.S. taxpayers, who must now pay taxes to support the federal government's retention of public grazing lands.

Surely ranchers paying 1 / 10th the going rate for grazing land know they don't own it and have no business subleasing or re-selling it at private rates or accepting entry fees from resource companies and not passing the benefits back to the land owner (us).

What was New World Edenic grazing land, «America the beautiful,» has become lethal to all creation and human good.

Our American appetite for beef leads to the cutting down of tropical forests in Latin America to gain temporary grazing land.

In Australia, about 7 million ha of organic certified lands are extensive grazing lands.

He also visited the middle belt states of Taraba, Plateau and Benue, which have been hit by clashes over grazing land between nomadic herdsmen and farmers.

There's an old uranium mine on rancher Larry Gordy's grazing land near Cameron, Ariz..

Three millennia later a prolonged dry period and lack of grazing lands helped to push Mongol armies out of Central Asia as far west as Europe, where many settled and intermarried.

«Grazed lands play a major, essential role in grassland bird conservation in South America, and this important research reveals that specialized birds may be limited by habitat quality.

Semi-arid land is estimated to take up 12 — 18 % of the world's land area and while some of this is already used for farming, much of it is relatively unproductive grazing land.

This un-glaciated land is recognized for its fertile soil and exceptional grazing land making their butter second to none.

With grazing land diminishing and feed prices soaring, the cattle industry is reeling.

Before the area's devastating drought, a grid system of grazing land alternating with crop land permitted both groups to coexist relatively peacefully.

Acoustic indication such as whistles are used to command herding dogs mainly because these can be heard over a distance that's generally involved when gathering a large flock of sheep in a vast grazing land.

Khajjiar is bounded with green grazing land and a dense forest.

It sits along a pristine river, nestled among magnificent gardens and overlooking grazing lands.

On the range, wire fences are being clipped to allow interloping herds to poach grazing land.