Generally students meet for two hours a week to explore the woods, ponds, and
other habitats.
«This includes the protection of endangered Atlantic sturgeon, oyster beds, and
other habitats during and after construction of the New NY Bridge.»
«There are more animals there than in all
the other habitats,» Widder says.
In many places «habitat banks» are being set up to allow conservationists and financiers to invest in protecting areas, earning «offset credits» that can be banked for future sale to developers wanting to exploit
some other habitat.
Like
other habitat specialists, Sungazers appear to be restricted to this area not only because of physical barriers such as large rivers and mountains, but also because of the unique climactic niche in this region.
Particularly in Africa and the Middle East, high fertility rates are leading to profound local environmental pressures - water stress, land degradation, over-hunting and fishing, falling farm sizes, deforestation and
other habitat destruction - thereby worsening the grave economic challenges these countries face.
Many
other habitats were overrun by introduced pigs and rats.
A number of ladybird species within Britain are largely confined to coniferous woodland and it appears that such habitats are more resistant to invasion by the harlequin ladybird than
other habitats.
About half of the species of monkeys in South America are threatened, said Lynch Alfaro, who has conducted field work in the Amazon and
other habitats in South America for 19 years.
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have risen from ~ 280 ppm during pre-industrial times to 407 ppm today as a result of the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and the removal of
other habitats that sequester carbon.
Cat towers, scratching posts and
other habitats come pre-treated with catnip.
Aquariums are very heavy compared to
other habitats, and plan to handle yours carefully as even a short drop can cause cracks or complete breakage.
Other habitat variables (e.g. mild fire scars, riparian habitats) did not improve model performance.
This is great for marine, brackish - water and African Rift Lake environments, but it is certainly not recommended for
any other habitats.
With solid walls an aquarium will contain more of the smells that come with owning a furry little creature than
any other habitat options.
Araucaria Ecotours is an enjoyable zoologist - designed introduction to Australia's wildlife while travelling from Brisbane to visit mountains, beaches, rainforests, wetlands and
other habitats and wildlife parks combining an enhanced understanding of our wildlife with wonderful scenery, great meals and very special accommodation.
We use environmental law to protect oceans, forests, and
other habitats as well as all people.
It's wise, given the human ability to plan ahead to some extent, to start considering how to protect Arctic areas that are most likely to sustain thriving populations as
other habitat shrinks.
Global warming will increase some habitats and their speciesholding capacity, just as warming reduces
other habitats.
Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting
other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning policy and other measures to create high quality landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to climate change.
The Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (CBD 2014), while finding some improvements in temperate and developed parts of the world and the ongoing enlargement of the protected - area estate, also presented evidence of climate - induced effects on biodiversity; the increased spread of diseases and invasive biota; declines in species living in forests, reefs, and many
other habitats; and the conversion of ecosystems supporting many kinds of life to ones with singular human uses.
We use environmental law to protect oceans, forests, and
other habitats as well as all people.
Not exact matches
«By observing someone in their natural
habitat we can determine how often they get interrupted when they are trying to do taxes, payroll, or perform some
other task,» Williams says.
Eventually, Bigelow would like to take the earnings from
habitat lease arrangements and reinvest them, in partnership with NASA and
other companies, in a program for lunar operations.
The
other aspect of the White Spruce decision which reveals a policy vacuum is the setting of the offset multiplier at 2:1 (i.e., twice as much
habitat must be restored as will be impacted by the mitigated project).
If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and
other species at risk and rare or sensitive
habitats.
The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to
habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological
habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each
other by a matrix of dissimilar
habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.
Various permits are also being advanced with state and federal agencies — such as water discharge, wetlands, air quality, water use and fish
habitat permits and
other approvals that will give them right - of - way access.
Tracy has educated the likes of Coldwell Bankers, Halstead, Citi
Habitats, and developed partnerships with many loan professionals from banks like Chase, M&T, HSBC, TD Bank, amongst
others.
PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and
habitats, among a multitude of
other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.
Every time that the swallows and
other birds fly south, they find their
habitat more and more deteriorated.
Our service of wealth hastens the pollution of the Earth, the exhaustion of resources, the elimination of
habitat for
other species, the degradation of water, soil, and air.
Furthermore, at the same time that we undermine our own future, we are threatening or destroying the
habitats of
other species at rates unparalleled in natural history.
At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human
habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with
other species.
But the
other reason is that fossilization is a very rare event and only takes place in a few types of
habitats (ones in which oxygen is absent for example).
The animals we kill for food and whose
habitat we steal for farmland and housing and
other development could just as well consider all of humanity evil.
No
other species can alter its
habitat with the deliberation that the human species can.
In Schumacher's view, goals of agriculture should be directed «to keep man in touch with living nature, of which he is and remains a highly vulnerable part; to humanize and ennoble man's wider
habitat; and to bring forth the foodstuffs and
other materials which are needed for a becoming life.
Living within a crowded and delicately balanced economic, social, and ecological system, we have become vitally dependent on each
other, and on our collective
habitat.
The bottom includes the
other species whose
habitat is daily reduced and the domesticated animals who are brutally treated so that our meat will be cheap and tender.
He was speaking philosophically about the plight of man; that while birds have nests and
other animals have their natural
habitats, there is no natural place for the children of man to rest their heads.
[94] They also encourage the employment of
habitat restriction and modification as a means of wildlife damage control, as could be done through fencing or
other forms of
habitat modification.
In addition to
habitat destruction, the disappearance of species is associated with
other forms of deterioration of the environment.
In many years the numbers of inhabitants of a region may be well below the carrying capacity because of unfavorable weather or
other unfavorable features of the environment of the organism in the
habitat.
But declines are occurring in the absence of destruction of
habitats, suggesting
other causes such as pollution from pesticides, acid rain and increases in ultraviolet exposure or even change in climate (Blaustein & Wake 1990).
But it is also the challenge that we have moral obligations which extend even beyond the human community to
other living things and their
habitats.
Researchers point to things like the destruction of wild
habitats, hunting and
other increased challenges as the cause of the extinction.
In
other locations the chiltepín
habitat is lost as it is plowed under for tomato fields or for housing developments.
The monarch butterfly, which winters in the forests of Michoacán (the state where many avocados are grown), could potentially be put at risk, along with
other plants and animals in the
habitat.
An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural
habitat where
other plants and animals can use it.