Sentences with phrase «important conservation areas»

This National Park is one of the most important conservation areas in the country; it was created to protect the plants, fauna, coral reefs and many marine ecosystems and its amazing panoramic beauty.

The Hepworth Wakefield is at the heart of Wakefield's regeneration, and has helped to secure significant private sector funding to restore the listed mills and warehouses in this important conservation area.

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The resulting reduction in carbon emissions is particularly striking given that buildings at the site include restored and refurbished Victorian Mill buildings, some of which are Grade II listed (designated as being particularly important and of special interest and protected by UK law), within a Conservation Area and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

* Beginning in 2015 the Bird Conservation Team included the following: Gerald A Bertrand Chair, Ecological Management, Bird Conservation, Salt Marsh Science and Important Bird Areas.

Your observations (especially of rare and protected birds) help support Mass Audubon's major bird conservation programs, including the Important Bird Area (IBA) program, various biological inventories taking place on our wildlife sanctuaries, and other new programs that are currently being planned.

Citizen reports from backyards, feeders, highways, and conservation areas across the state are important to Mass Audubon's efforts to learn more about the populations, distributions, and breeding activities of the birds of Massachusetts.

Given such variation, as well as the expense and logistical challenges of conducting population surveys, indigenous communities will be important partners in developing workable conservation strategies, such as the creation of new protected areas or harvest quotas, the study suggests.

Wildlife Conservation Society Mozambique Country Director James Bampton said the research demonstrated just how important the protected area network in Mozambique was for protecting forests and reducing deforestation.

AIS data have important applications in conservation science including describing baseline vessel use of a maritime area, assessing or modeling actual or potential environmental impacts, and monitoring environmental compliance.

«We're trying to identify areas that might be neglected by current action plans but will be critically important for conservation planning in Madagascar going forward,» Yoder said.

Monitoring remains an important tool to provide early warnings of forests at risk of reaching a tipping point, and the results of this study can inform and focus conservation and management decisions in areas of concern.

Most recently, they are being used to demonstrate how to better identify Important Marine Mammal Areas in need of protection, an initiative being led by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).

It may be that good governance in countries where forests are an important natural resource helps ensure conservation and sustainable management not only in protected areas but outside them as well.»

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

«We learned to breed them in captivity and are now releasing Atelopus varius in areas where the epidemic has passed, so it is extremely important for us to realize that the defenses of these frogs may be weaker than the defenses of frogs that survived the epidemic in the wild,» said Roberto Ibáñez, study co-author, STRI staff scientist, and in - country director of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project.

A second area includes trans - boundary issues, which are important because they sometimes involve the domestic priorities of a country, like air pollution, biodiversity conservation and others, but other times they involve also political issues, as well as issues that require technical skills.

These areas are very important for conservation.

There are lots of saltwater crocodiles and the area provides an important conservation habitat for dugongs, nesting turtles and migratory birds.

Labuan Bajo is the closest city to the Komodo National Park, one of the most important natural conservation areas in the world.

Important attractions in Orange Walk include the Maya ruins, Lamanai, El Posito, Cuello, Nohmul, Chan Chich and the Rio Bravo Conservation Area.

The jewel of the islands, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, National Marine Conservation Area Reserve, and Haida Heritage Site, provides the adventurous kayaker with stunning scenery, remote wilderness, fantastic wildlife, and the opportunity to visit important Haida cultural sites.

In our great Butterfly Pavilion you will find countless butterflies flying among waterfalls, streams and breathtaking vegetation; this conservation area is home to a very important species since pre-Hispanic times, when the ancient Aztecs believed that the fragile butterflies represented the souls of warriors fallen in battle.

The various protected areas are important for Belize not only for conservation but also for our tourism industry.

The property provides important habitat for a number of threatened marine species, harbouring a number of species of conservation concern including the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), green turtle (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), and the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) as well as endemic and migratory birds which reproduce in the littoral forests of cayes, atolls and coastal areas.

The 2,500 hectare Cuilcagh Mountain Park, which is managed by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council and is a designated Special Area of Conservation due to its internationally important blanket bog and significant range -LSB-...]

As such conservation activities remain an important priority in government policy with the notable example of having the only jaguar reserve in the world among its protected areas.

This National Park is one of the most important and popular conservation areas in the country.

The Gili Islands are marked as an important area for marine turtle conservation.

Belize has done a good job protecting its natural areas, and these national parks are represent both important conservation and amazing scenery in Belize.

Arenal Observatory Lodge and Spa is enclosed by the Arenal Volcano National Park, one of the most important areas of conservation in the country.

Much of the area is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, named by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of tropical rainforest biarea is part of the Coastal Wet Tropics Important Bird Area, named by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of tropical rainforest biArea, named by BirdLife International because of its importance in the conservation of tropical rainforest birds.

Cabo Blanco National Park in Costa Rica is an important part of the administrative area known as Tempisque Conservation Area, which also includes forest reserves and wildlife sanctuararea known as Tempisque Conservation Area, which also includes forest reserves and wildlife sanctuarArea, which also includes forest reserves and wildlife sanctuaries.

Selected for its outstanding nature conservation values, Lady Elliot Island is one of the most important sites in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area for seabird nesting and an important habitat for marine turtles, manta rays, dolphins, sharks and coral reefs.

Some areas of high diversity, however, will be comprised of species expanding their ranges, and these species may not represent important targets for conservation efforts.

Protected areas are the mainstay for biodiversity conservation although other forest areas are also important.

When protecting farmland with a conservation easement, we're also protecting the streams and wetlands with «Resource Protection Areas» that codify riparian buffers important to maintaining clean water.

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

«We mapped areas important for added conservation,» Belote told AlterNet.

On 23 June, UNESCO decided to put the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) Conservation Area in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh on the World Heritage List, acknowledging it as one of the world's most important and significant natural habitats for conservation of biological diversity, containing threatened species of outstanding univConservation Area in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh on the World Heritage List, acknowledging it as one of the world's most important and significant natural habitats for conservation of biological diversity, containing threatened species of outstanding univconservation of biological diversity, containing threatened species of outstanding universal value.

The conservation area covers around 39,000 hectares of threatened Miombo woodland in Lusaka Province and acts as an important buffer zone to the Lower Zambezi National Park and the adjacent Mana Pools National Park.

Those maps will help identify what unprotected areas are most important for conservation in Sabah.

«This is an effort to identify where forest areas are most important to the conservation and recovery of the spotted owl.»

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» says Dr James Watson of the University of Queensland in Australia and the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

Arlington, VA — A massive new marine protected area around Cocos Island is a beacon of hope for ocean health and human well - being in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and will offer endangered marine species such as hammerhead sharks and leatherback turtles, as well as fish stocks that are important to local communities, the chance to recover from increasing pressures, Conservation International (CI) said today in reaction to a decree by the Costa Rican government.

Describing the decree as a day of national pride, Costa Rican Marine Program Coordinator for Conservation International, Marco Quesada said, «Creating a protected seamount area sets an important precedent.

These video camera traps show that Bukit Batabuh area is an important habitat for the Sumatran tiger in Riau, functioning as a wildlife corridor, hence it becomes a priority area for tiger conservation.

According to Conservation International, Costa Rican Marine Program Coordinator for Conservation International, Marco Quesada said, «Creating a protected seamount area sets an important precedent.

Goossens said it was also incumbent on oil palm operators to do more in terms of conservation efforts, given that most of the plantations in Sabah are located in areas that are important for many species.