Sentences with phrase «human settlements because»

The study also upends the long - held belief that some bears move close to human settlements because of easy access to food.

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So even though it might be possible to provide wildcats with the habitat and space they need through small parks connected by wildlife corridors, ultimately such plans wouldn't work because the corridors would probably put the wildcats in closer contact with human settlements.

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is an especially great place for African wildcats, the researchers note, because it's big and isolated from humans — the closest human settlement is 10 kilometers from the park's boundaries.

But most of the real evidence may never come to light, Davis argues, because scientists have been strong - armed into silence by companies who fund their work, and because, as a condition of any settlement, lawyers have kept the human evidence sealed.

«Estuaries, because of their proximity to human settlements, are sort of ground zero for human impacts,» says marine ecologist Larry B. Crowder of Duke University.

The forest fires are being dowsed out because of human settlement in vulnerable areas.

In an interview with the Herald, the head of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Luis Samaniego said the region is already seeing many effects of climate change and faces an average GDP drop of one percentage point because of it.

These forests are overgrown because nearby human settlements have interfered with naturally occurring smaller wildfires that have historically controlled the balance.

Extreme weather events associated with climate change pose particular challenges to human settlements, because assets and populations in both developed and developing countries are increasingly located in coastal areas, slopes, ravines and other risk - prone regions (Freeman and Warner, 2001; Bigio, 2003; UN-Habitat, 2003).

She also found that because the human rights settlement was characterized primarily as loss of income, National Life was entitled to subrogation.