Sentences with phrase «key habitat»

With his colleagues at COAST, Wood launched a grassroots campaign to establish Scotland's first No Take Zone (NTZ) in Lamlash Bay, an area they had identified as key habitat for regenerating marine wildlife.

The Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, a local conservation group paying for part of the project, is also protecting key habitat on both sides of the highway through land purchases and easements.

The study authors suggest designating key habitats and the corridors of land that connect them as mandatory conservation areas, and building tunnels in corridor areas, rather than roads.

By integrating the CAO maps with ground - based biodiversity data and information on the use of forests by local people, we should be uniquely well placed to identify hundreds of thousands of new conservation areas in Sabah that not only protect key habitats, but also the livelihoods of forest - dependent communities».

Xiangming Xiao, associate director of the University of Oklahoma's Center for Spatial Analysis in Norman, has been tracking likely outbreaks of this highly pathogenic flu by looking for key habitat and weather changes.

In the Gulf of Mexico, oil has fouled a key habitat of one of the most impressive creatures on Earth: the sperm whale, the world's largest toothed whale.

«We need to understand where the key habitats are located, the places that are essential to ecosystems.

«The loss of key habitat is causing significant conservation challenges for Sumatra — and in particular for this critically endangered species.»

Through the NRCS - led Sage Grouse Initiative, more than 1,100 ranchers have restored or conserved approximately 4.4 million acres of key habitat.

Key habitats protected within the SMCA include steelhead streams, kelp forest, rocky intertidal zone, sandy and cobble beach, reef and sandy bottom, pinnacles and offshore rocks.

In the warmer months, the island's blue gums are a key habitat for the critically endangered swift parrot.