"Local biodiversity" refers to the variety and abundance of different plants, animals, and other organisms found in a specific area or region, like a neighborhood, park, or forest. It includes all the different species and their interactions within that particular environment, contributing to the unique balance and harmony of nature in that specific place.
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This type of criminal damage can have a significant impact
on local biodiversity and the protection of livestock and wild birds at breeding times.
Both groups underwent declines
in local biodiversity, but the rates of decline were higher for the open - water species.
Human habitats could do a lot more than provide shelter for humans; future sustainable, low - carbon buildings could also incorporate design elements to boost
local biodiversity as well.
Students set up a conservation project that will assist
local biodiversity by providing local wildlife with a safe place to drink water.
At COP14 on biodiversity in Egypt, local governments, through the ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center, will highlight efforts to align national and
local biodiversity action plans.
Today, Rolando Soto and his brothers work as skilled carpenters, earning a better income, conserving vital forestland and
protecting local biodiversity.
Organizations like Kenya's Green Belt Movement specifically plant indigenous trees to
preserve local biodiversity and boost the economy, purchasing the seeds for these trees from local farmers.
Organic agriculture, by requiring few, low - cost inputs,
enhancing local biodiversity, and providing a premium return on investment, is a system that empowers farmers to restore and uphold food security.
Triangle families can write a prize - winning story, use a smartphone app to
document local biodiversity, be mystified by an illusionist and more.
Now that it has become clear that polychaetes inhabit depths reachable by scuba divers, the researchers hope to conduct experiments using living specimens to gain a deeper understanding of marine life in the area, helping to create an information infrastructure vis - à -
vis local biodiversity.
As I was growing up, I witnessed forests being cleared and replaced by commercial plantations, which
destroyed local biodiversity and the capacity of the forests to conserve water.
There was another lesson that struck me as I read the recent DO blog about mahogany and Peru: in Sri Lanka, mahogany is an invasive species, and where it is planted or
grows local biodiversity is impoverished.
Because the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, with grave consequences
for local biodiversity and cultures, and for low - lying communities around the world at risk from climate change.
It's a whimsical design that tackles an important issue in its own small way: with various wildlife populations declining around the world, it will be essential for humans to figure out how to include concrete ways to
boost local biodiversity in the design of sustainable buildings today, and for the future.
Shoemaker Green not only offers an open space of lawns, tree - lined walkways, and sitting areas but will also improve water quality and minimize runoff, reduce the effect of the urban heat island by greening large paved areas, restore biomass on site,
increase local biodiversity, and improve the overall environment for the community.
For example, in species - poor, sub-Antarctic island ecosystems, alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals have been extensively documented as causing substantial loss
of local biodiversity and changes to ecosystem function (Frenot et al., 2005).
The bill mentions
maintaining local biodiversity and ecosystems as reasons that member states could invoke to ban the crops, but Marco Contiero, agriculture policy director at Greenpeace EU here, says the wording is not enough to withstand legal scrutiny if seed producers challenge a ban in court.
Ecotoxicologists conduct research on the effects of biodiversity, exploring the influence of pesticides
on local biodiversity.
The island is known for being the one - time home of that most famous of extinct animals, the poor old dodo, and while there's no hope for the flightless feathered one, Mauritius is home to a wealth of tropical wildlife, with efforts being made to protect and
preserve local biodiversity.
They have begun to identify the communities most vulnerable to flooding, the hazards to
local biodiversity as forests and grasslands begin to feel the heat, and the cities most at risk from routine coastal flooding as sea levels rise.
«Our goal is to help and support the Trinidadian farming community, and we have a heavy emphasis on protecting
the local biodiversity.»
Each of Italy's 20 regions boasts a unique cuisine that draws on
the local biodiversity, traditions, and culture.
The environment secretary specifically pledged to end the «three - crop rule», designed to mitigate the impact modern mass farming can have on the environment and
local biodiversity.
The aim of the project is to link the management carried out by people shooting over land in North Wales with conservation programmes in North Wales, principally
the Local Biodiversity Action Plans.
Green Shoots in North Wales is a partnership project between the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW), Environment Agency Wales (EAW), the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group Cymru (FWAG Cymru) and
the Local Biodiversity Action Plan partnerships in North Wales.
«This plan is exciting not only for the future of
the local biodiversity, but also because it involved a lot of collaboration from the local government and universities to make it happen,» she said.
Unique in - the - mud volunteer experiences bring corporate sustainability and social responsibility initiatives to life, providing insights into environmental systems, natural resource management,
local biodiversity, community history, and the local and global impact of restoration.
With the destruction of these cultures and the introduction of new values,
local biodiversity is no longer valued or protected and as a result, it is quickly degraded and disappears.
The local biodiversity is extremely remarkable and provides habitat for the protected species blue coral, green turtles, manta rays, and sharks, among others.
After lunch we visited the Kotococha Community to see some of
the local biodiversity and learn a little bit of their traditions.
There's more on ecology in the age of man in a recent Washington Post article by Joel Achenbach and a 2010 piece from Ronald Bailey in Reason explaining how «
local biodiversity is increasing because of man, not despite him.»
The group campaigns on areas including protection of
local biodiversity, sustainable water management, climate and energy, genetically modified organisms, simple living, economical degrowth, and transition towns.
Conservationists also worry that in upland forests, the skyrocketing demand for pellets could accelerate the conversion of natural forests to short - rotation pine timber, which would be a devastating blow to
local biodiversity.
To further your career development you might consider volunteering to sit on
the local biodiversity steering group or undertaking work for a local office of the TCV.
The goal of the project is to educate people about native species while increasing and maintaining
the local biodiversity of the HNA.