Sentences with phrase «into human settlements»

«In many cases this brings them into human settlements and hunting camps.»

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Efforts to protect wildlife, for instance, have brought animal populations perilously near to human settlements: Beaver dams cause floods, deer carry tick infestations, geese get sucked into plane turbines.

72 % and 66 % respectively: of tropical dry forest in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean have been transformed into human - dominated landscapes since pre-European settlement

88 %: Atlantic tropical forest transformed into human - dominated landscapes since pre-European settlement

The reason grandparents get up at dawn and teenagers stay awake into the wee hours might be related to how ancient humans guarded their settlements, New Scientist reports.

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.

In treeless areas, such geographic features often indicate ancient settlements formed from mud - brick structures that later human occupation has compressed over time into artificial hills.

It consists of forest patches that have been highly degraded by timber extraction, which are sewn into a landscape of palm oil plantations and human settlements.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

Anna Roosevelt's ventures into the jungles of South America have turned up traces of human settlements far older than archaeologists ever suspected

Deer have fared much better under heavy human settlement in the east — aside from predator removal, roads and housing slice the forest into pieces, providing forage at sunlit edges and cover in the woods.

This settlement existed from approximately 7,100 to 6,000 BC and is considered to be the most significant site in the Near East that affords any insight into the development of human habitats.

While it was beyond the scope of this report, analysis of population growth also takes into account how rapid urbanization would change the face of human settlements and affect their ability to adapt to climate change.

«You've got bears that are spending increasing amounts of time on land becoming nutritionally stressed, moving into areas of human settlements,» says Todd Atwood, a wildlife biologist at the US Geological Survey.

«Once you get humans into the picture and human settlements... there's a creation of a new habitat,» he explains.

In Africa, people encounter chimpanzees and other apes when human settlements expand into ape habitats, through activities like tourism and research, and when apes leave the forests to raid crops.

Introduced into their culture via the Xi'an settlement on Oya III, the inhabitants there learned to love riding space bikes from their Human neighbors.

The resulting work draws the viewer into a rich non-verbal history recorded in rivers, prairies, lunar cycles, and human settlements.

I don't know, but the horror El Ninos of the early 1790s, which coincided with one of history's great human disasters in India, just by chance make their way into the earliest journals of the baby Australian settlements of Sydney and Rose Hill.

This does not, however, prevent parties from entering into settlement agreements after a human rights situation has occurred.

On August 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) entered into a settlement agreement with Advocate Health Care Center (Advocate) in which Advocate agreed to pay $ 5.5 million to settle multiple violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).