Sentences with phrase «high ecological value»

We think Ocean Beach, in between Point Reyes and Half Moon Bay, has high ecological value for shorebirds.»

NOC would set up ways to prioritize those needs, as well as guidance on tasks like identifying which areas are of high ecological value.

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Through the project's greenhouse gas accounting, build local awareness about the value of maintaining and restoring forest cover, and improve the desirability of maintaining shade coffee over cattle ranching or other activities with a higher ecological impact.

It means we can now produce maps of where coral is likely to be for large areas of the deep - sea that we have not yet visited, and use them to identify high value ecological areas that might need protection from damaging activities.»

Quinoa has been considered as a crop for NASA's Controlled Ecological Life Support System due to its high protein values and unique composition of amino acids.

Carbon credits & markets seemed like a high finance scam mostly; I researched carbon sequestration & coal gasification for some meetings, but I took the science at face value — warming as just one aspect of oncoming ecological apocalypse.

These are the natural areas that meet the highest state standards for scenic and ecological values,» said Mr. Sullivan.

European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is a dominant forest tree species of high economic value and ecological importance (Ellenberg 2009).

In an article on Huffington Post, Gleick writes of three types of peak water: renewable, where water flows are constrained over time; nonrenewable, such as groundwater sources, where we pull more than can be naturally replenished; and ecological, which is the point beyond which the cost to the local ecology of using the water is higher than the value of using it for human consumption.

Indigenous knowledge of customary and traditional water use are identified (such as the high value cultural and ecological water systems and areas)