Sentences with phrase «high mountain ecosystems»

The panelists at the event set forth examples of some of the transformative actions that governments and partners have taken to conserve snow leopards, and their high mountain ecosystems in ways that strengthen livelihoods of the indigenous peoples and local communities, who live in and manage a large part of these landscapes.

The four - year UNDP project, funded with US$ 1 million from the GEF and $ US 4.196 million in co-financing, and implemented by the Snow Leopard Trust, will strengthen global transboundary efforts to conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems.

The convergence of local and global changes compounds the impacts on fragile but important high mountain ecosystems.

Not exact matches

If the Texas company's plan for expanding its Trans Mountain pipeline linking Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., is completed, the risk of irreparable damage to Burrard Inlet and Vancouver's entire marine ecosystem would rise to a high level.

As climate change converges with human encroachment in these mountains, the degradation of high Andean ecosystems is accelerating.

The Snow Leopard Trust and the Asian World Film Festival are joining forces to raise awareness for the endangered snow leopard and its ecosystem in the high mountains of Asia.

The illegal trade in snow leopard, its body parts, and derivatives, and its prey pose a serious threat to conservation of wildlife in the high altitude mountain ecosystems of Asia.

Our Organic Legends of China Green Tea (camellia sinensis) comes from high in the mountains of the Fujian Province of China and is grown without pesticides, with natural fertilizer and with careful attention for the preservation of the ecosystem.

It is an intangible territory of the National System of Natural Areas protected by the Peruvian State, with a surface of 32,592 hectares (80,535 acres or 325.92 km ²), which includes Andean and high jungle Amazonian areas, inter-Andean valleys, gorges, mountains and rivers, which form ecosystems and very varied fauna and flora, like more than 200 species of orquids that develop in its 9 life zones, going from 1,850 to about 6,270 m.a.s.l.

The different ecosystems that you will pass through are magnificent, especially when you are coming from the high mountains of Salkantay, and then into the Cloud Forest of the Classic Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

«The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and freshwater ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more,» the letter published in Science reads.

Across the American West, whitebark pine, a linchpin of high - altitude ecosystems, is rapidly falling victim to the aggressive mountain pine beetle.

(v) The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and fresh water ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more.

However, given the scarcity and fragility of high elevation habitat, we need to question if these limited mountain ecosystems should even be considered at all as a choice for this type of intrusive development.

The meadows in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, high in the Rocky Mountains, get most of their water from winter snow melt.

With a deep knowledge of ecosystems ranging from marine to savanna to high mountains, he spoke...