Sentences with phrase «habitat areas on»

Older students might work in teams or on their own to create a color key and to color the habitat areas on a copy of world map.

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Based on the available information, the EPA in 2014 determined the mine would result in a complete and irreversible loss of fish habitats in some areas of the bay.

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.

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

Scientists have blamed the giraffe extinction on «habitat loss» and explained that more and more people are moving in and developing on giraffe living areas.

There was increased hydraulic diversity in zones 3 and 4 but reduced hydraulic diversity in zone 1 due to a reduction in the area of slackwater, which is likely to have an adverse impact on taxa that require slackwater habitat for recruitment and survival while benefiting taxa that require faster flowing water

Smooth Greensnakes occupy a wide range of habitats, though they depend on moist, grassy areas in prairies, marshes or near lakes.

Mass Audubon and Three Bays Preservation are seeking permits to restore coastal bird habitat on Dead Neck Sampsons Island by renourishing important nesting areas on the island.

This year's to - do lists include (depending on the sanctuary) removing invasive species; preparing garden beds to attract a variety of visitors, from birds and butterflies to people; cleaning nature play areas; restoring habitats; maintaining trails; and improving entrance areas.

Westchester County Geographic Information Systems Mapper Westchester County's mapper lets users search by location within a specific theme (such as sewer district), or zoom in on an area of interest and display map layers such as watershed boundaries, locations of septic tanks and wastewater treatment plants, citizen science sampling locations, and fish and wildlife habitats.

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.

The model also suggests that education targeting the border areas between the residential community and bear habitats will have the biggest impact on limiting bear conflict.

On a per - unit - area basis, the cannabis grows resulted in 1.5 times more forest loss and 2.5 times greater fragmentation of the landscape, breaking up large, contiguous forest into smaller patches and reducing wildlife habitat.

On top of that, any wolves that roamed outside the official recovery area were captured and kept in captivity, or released back into their approved wild habitat.

Both those for and against the project note that the outcome of the jaguar habitat could have implications for future interpretation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, which currently requires the FWS to establish critical habitat areas for species on the list.

By JOHN BONNER As more and more of the Earth's surface is swallowed up by towns, roads and agriculture, pressure grows on the remaining areas of truly wild habitat.

«Lesser prairie - chicken survival relies on the combination of habitat and climate, and larger areas of habitat provide more opportunities for them to survive a difficult climate,» said USGS scientist and study co-author Clint Boal.

But, when examining how well the protected area established for sage grouse covers other species that depend on sage grouse habitat, it leaves a lot to be desired.»

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

Yet if farmers had an economic incentive to add habitat — on fallow fields or in areas that are frost - prone, have poor soil or are otherwise unfit for blueberries — the story could be different.

The team is continuing its work on the ecology of the new species and is urging the government to designate its habitat as a «protected area.»

Sage grouse are on the decline, and scientists think that (in addition to habitat loss) the problem may be that noise pollution from natural gas development in their native areas across the western United States interferes with successful mating.

The continued development of maritime transportation around the world, especially in new areas such as the Arctic, can increase conservation impacts to wildlife, including disturbance, fatal strikes, introduction of pathogens through ballast water, habitat destruction through anchoring (especially on corals), introduction of invasive species, air emis ¬ sions, noise, and fuel spills.

Instead of paying for work to improve woodland habitats, the grant will be spent on car parks, signs and picnic areas — to improve public access to woodlands

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

One of the most interesting areas the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) is currently working on is mapping, monitoring and surveying orangutan habitats around the island using drones.

But Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana, a former businessman, has publicly committed himself to tripling the area of protected habitat on the island.

Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.

The study, «Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities,» appears Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific Reports.

If the proposed critical habitat designation is approved, other federal agencies will be required to consult with NOAA Fisheries on actions such as oil exploration and drilling that could destroy or adversely affect the area.

Restoring the connections between habitats that have been fragmented by human actions — instead of just focusing on maximizing total habitat area — is key if we want to give these butterflies a fighting chance, Oliver says.

The researchers focused on streams draining seven national forests in the southern Appalachian region, first mapping out how much of the area's current habitat is suitable for acid - and heat - sensitive aquatic species such as the native brook trout.

The area is dotted with uninhabited islands and reefs that provide perfect habitat for some 7,000 different species of marine wildlife, a quarter of which, like the monk seal, are found nowhere else on the planet.

Global warming also puts stress on wildlife such as walruses and polar bears as they lose their habitat areas.

«It might mean that they could crisscross areas of inhospitable habitat at a greater frequency than we might expect based on what habitat is good,» Pittman said.

The scientists said drilling on the coastal plain would be particularly harmful because it contains a «unique compression» of habitats supporting animals like polar bears, grizzly bears, wolverines, representing «the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area above the Arctic Circle.»

However, the question the researchers asked was this: Should conservation efforts be focused on areas where forest habitats have already been lost and species might be reaching a threshold, or on forests that are largely intact and are only just beginning to be affected by development?

The study draws on an earlier analysis the lab conducted for the Western Governors» Association to identify areas where renewable resources are the strongest, most consistent, and most concentrated, and where development would avoid protected areas and minimize the overall impact on wildlife habitat.

Urbanization is an important factor because it changes the species composition in an area, favoring the types of mosquitoes that live near and feed on people, such as Aedes aegypti, and causing other species to decline, such as those adapted to wetlands and other natural habitats.

In addition to over a half million trees and native shrubs that Friends of Trees has planted, they have installed habitat for pollinators on school grounds and parks throughout the Portland Metro area.

Intensify conservation efforts in the large landscapes required for snow leopard survival by identifying and designating critical habitats of key snow leopard populations as no - go areas for destructive land uses, maintaining their integrity and connectivity through natural corridors, and strengthening their protection on the ground.

But sage grouse «leks,» or mating grounds, are becoming less and less lively as habitat dwindles and numbers decline — especially in the Mono Basin area, where an isolated, genetically distinct population is holding on by a thread.

It will focus on a representative degraded ecosystem surrounded by protected areas and carry out measures to improve habitats as well as to enhance the conservation status of 47 targeted flora and fauna species.

One big step would be to draw on the successes of National Parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite by creating similar areas for underwater habitats.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

In their first weeks of life, poults are typically kept in a brooder area that is temperature controlled (often 90 - 100 °F) and may have limited pasture depending on the exact circumstances with the flock and habitat safety.

The planning covers a range of Geography and History objectives with a focus on the local area which can be easily adapted, and also Art and Science with a link to local buildings and habitats.

That's an area of 0.8 of a hectare on the school site that has significant remnant Indigenous habitat and it abuts the habitat of the powerful owl, which is federal government - owned land behind the school, behind this Bush Block.

Furthermore, taking this plug - in hybrid electric vehicle beyond the usual (i.e.urban) habitat of conventional electric cars, the engineering team underwent a series of tests on different road surfaces, from broken pavement to flooded areas.

And while the book is only loosely based on an actual event in which the Disney company, big supporters of Sierra Club, was actually blocked by Sierra Club from building a ski resort in an area that would have destroyed the habitats of endangered animals, there was a ring to it that perhaps this was trying a little too hard to bring new details to light from that former case.