Sentences with phrase «more habitat for wildlife»

«A better understanding of how tree diversity affects carbon storage will be useful for developing guidelines to design carbon projects that store high amounts of carbon and have additional benefits such as providing more habitat for wildlife.»

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Jane Kirchner has spent more than 20 years helping save open lands and advocating for the protection of wildlife habitat.

Located in the area where Drumlin Underground has stood for more than fifty years, this larger landscape features our red fox and other wildlife that occupy the edge habitat that dominates the farm.

For more than 40 years, the boardwalk has enabled visitors to enjoy the property's expansive wetland habitat and observe birds and other wildlife it supports.

Roads break up habitats and block migration routes, but as our species continues to expand, some researchers are asking which is better for wildlife: more traffic on fewer roads or less traffic on more roads?

It makes them patchy and leaves more habitat for the native wildlife, more food for them and more places to hide from cats.

The panel, convened at the request of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, has also recommended more research on the development and validation of spill cleanup methods that limit habitat damage and threats to wildlife, and methods to identify endpoints for cleanup operations based on habitat recovery.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

«For instance, there are huge conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa, because it has vital wildlife habitats but a very rapidly growing human population that will need more food and more roads.»

The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that shoppers» willingness to pay more for sustainably grown palm oil could create profitable incentives for producers to preserve certain wildlife habitats.

Predators can take advantage of more open habitats for hunting, which puts more pressure on wildlife.

The natural resources support industries in Louisiana and millions of jobs nationwide, provide hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat and winter habitat for more than five million migratory waterfowl, and are the primary nursery for the food chain supplying the entire Caribbean Basin.

We have always preferred spotting wildlife in their more «natural» habitat, for example, the Kruger National Park, and tend to be sc...

With more than 700 square miles of wetland and saw grass prairies, Everglades National Park is a magnificent and important habitat for Florida wildlife, including endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile and Florida panther.

Audubon's mission for more than 100 years has been to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.

For a product to be certified to the SFI Chain of Custody Standard, it must be sourced from a forest that is managed responsibly, meeting strict requirements for water and air quality, biodiversity, preservation of wildlife habitat, and moFor a product to be certified to the SFI Chain of Custody Standard, it must be sourced from a forest that is managed responsibly, meeting strict requirements for water and air quality, biodiversity, preservation of wildlife habitat, and mofor water and air quality, biodiversity, preservation of wildlife habitat, and more.

However, if yearly payments could be made on the basis of measured soil organic matter, rather than merely the withdrawal of the land for economic use, we would see much more wildlife habitat created, more grassfed beef raised, better water quality, a more secure income for landowners based on stewardship, and perhaps less conversion to monocrop grain production.

(E) establishes methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to assist fish, wildlife, and plant populations, habitats, ecosystems, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapt to, and better withstand the impacts of climate changes and ocean acidification and for updating those strategies and actions to respond appropriately to new information or changing conditions;

Trees also reduce air pollution, provide wildlife habitat, and make outdoor areas more pleasant for walking and recreation.

It has conserved more than 30,000 acres of farmland, forests and wildlife habitat for agricultural production, scenic beauty and recreation.

Rising energy consumption has long been synonymous with the destruction of nature, but according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at Breakthrough Institute, a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve human wellbeing and, at the same time, leave more land for habitats and wildlife.

But according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at the Breakthrough Institute, just the opposite may be true: a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve the wellbeing of the growing human population and, at the same time, leave more land for natural habitats and wildlife.

When biofuel crops are grown in appropriate places and under sustainable conditions, they offer a host of benefits: reduced fossil fuel use; diversified fuel supplies; increased employment; decreased greenhouse gas emissions; enhanced habitat for wildlife; improved soil and water quality; and more stable global land use, thereby reducing pressure to clear new land.

With unique and threatened marine habitats set aside for the future, the state's fish and wildlife are more likely to withstand assaults over time, like fishing pressure and climate change.

If on the other hand the moderately impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable habitat for several important native species of wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land for agriculture.

«A lot of emphasis is given to housing density whereas this would provide an opportunity for homebuyers to live in a more balanced environment where brownfield sites and other inhospitable sites are properly remediated and put to good use, as well as creating and providing better habitats for wildlife.

The need for wildlife - friendly backyards is more crucial than ever before, owing to the rapid loss of habitat as suburban subdivisions (and their requisite big - box stores) continue gobbling wildlife habitat across Canada.