Sentences with phrase «national protected areas»

Residents can take advantage of the advanced transportation options to visit nearby Chino, Big Bear Lake or San Bernardino, as well as numerous national protected areas.

Two national protected areas are found within the county, which are the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge and the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge.

It is home to a rich, diverse history, including many Indian reservations and national protected areas.

However, these results require greater levels of law enforcement, surveillance, and monitoring than typically is found in national protected areas.

Citation: «Peru national protected areas».

In addition to entrance fees, financial support for all protected areas in Belize can be accessed through the national Protected Areas Conservation Trust.

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

For an escape to nature, Pakse is the best pivot point to reach Ban Khiet Ngong in the edge of Xe Pian National Protected Area.

Trekking in the Nam Ha National Protected Area: Trekking is why most people come to Luang Nam Tha — your money goes to employing the local community and to park fees that fund wildlife / forest conservation projects and maintenance.

Luang Nam Tha: Nestled in mountainous northern Laos just a hop, skip and a jump from the Chinese border, Luang Nam Tha is an excellent base for trekking and other outdoor activities, particularly in and around the Nam Ha National Protected Area.

Not exact matches

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

Protect Canada's rich natural heritage by unveiling a new National Conservation Plan to further increase protected areas, focusing on stronger marine and coastal conservation;

Born and raised in El Quetzalito, a rural community in the state of Petén, Guatemala, the 48 - year - old Román started working in 1990 with the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala (CONAP)-- the organization tasked with making the 2.1m - hectare (6m - acre) Maya Biosphere Reserve a reality — and has worked in conservation ever since, including as director of CONAP.

We have applied this approach in Cameroon, focusing on two clusters of community forests that border protected areas in the country's southern region — one cluster that's adjacent to the CampoMa'an National Park and another that's near the Dja Biosphere Reserve.

There are nine bays, which are protected areas, and 36 beaches, which are part of the Bahias de Huatulco National Park.

With the help of Mass Audubon and in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Everglades National Park, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TIDE trained nine Belizean protected area managers to the advanced level of «burn boss,» giving them the necessary skills in prescribed fires in pine savannahs to prevent dangerous wildfires.

In a Downing Street web chat Mr Miliband said: «The new institutional reforms, which protect British sovereignty in vital areas of national interest should be passed or rejected by parliament».

At the same time, we need to preserve our heritage and to protect Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, National Parks, Sites of Special Scientific Interest and the Green Belt.

«I think that as parliament gets to grips with the reform treaty that comes out from December, as they look line by line, they will see first that it is good for Britain; second that it is very different from the constitution in absolute essence, and third that the red lines, the key national interest of the United Kingdom in foreign policy and other areas, have been protected.»

One most important issue that needs urgent attention is the fact that these nationals use various weapons to protect areas of operation on the Ghanaian community they operate.

But Mr Clegg claimed garden cities could protect the countryside, and it would be possible to build them without concreting over the green belt, National Parks or Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Because the catch of fish in these areas was lower, such measures would protect many species but wouldn't cut into the total catch as deeply, the authors argue in their report, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Both the Myanmar and Chinese Governments have also begun the process of establishing new protected areas on both sides of the border: Imawbum National Park in Myanmar and the Nujiang Grand Canyon National Park in China.

Furthermore, many prime collecting locales fall inside protected areas — including Sempre - Vivas National Park, which was established to preserve native animals and plants, including sempre - vivas.

One strategy favored by Monteiro and other people working in the region involves transforming Sempre - Vivas National Park into an extractive reserve, a type of protected area that would allow the sustainable harvest of flowers, and, possibly, other uses.

Polish scientists worked to protect the least spoiled area of forest with the greatest density of big trees, first as a nature reserve and then as a national park in 1932.

But as the idea of national parks and other protected areas for biodiversity spread to other countries, particularly in the developing world, it became clear how arbitrary the concept was.

This strengthens the case that the United Nations ocean protection target be raised from 10 per cent to 30 per cent coverage of MPAs, which will require many more large - scale MPAs and protected areas beyond national jurisdiction.

In this sense, rewilding holds the potential to stabilize far more than natural areas in peril: it can enhance and protect national security by sequestering carbon and safeguarding fresh water, fertile soils, cleaner air.

Evicted at gunpoint from the vast Bolivian national park she helped set up, Rosa Maria Ruiz is still battling to protect threatened areas of rainforest

Core protected areas had long been a feature of conservation design, but Soulé and Noss described national parks and wildlife refuges as only the beginning, the kernels from which larger, mightier protected areas must grow.

But they have been protecting for the last 50 years huge portions of the country in a network of the national system of protected areas.

To establish whether South Africa's wildcats are still free of domestic kitty DNA, Johannes J. Le Roux of Stellenbosch University in Matieland, South Africa, and colleagues looked into the genetics and geographic ranges of African wildcats, domestic cats and hybrids from across the country, concentrating on two protected areas — Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in the northwest and Kruger National Park in the northeast.

By 2009, a national system of marine protected areas was established under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to preserve the shipwrecks, elevating them from plunder to historical trnational system of marine protected areas was established under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to preserve the shipwrecks, elevating them from plunder to historical trNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to preserve the shipwrecks, elevating them from plunder to historical treasures.

Even in protected areas like the Mojave National Preserve, several tortoises are killed on roads each year.

Noise pollution from humans has doubled sound levels in more than half of all protected areas in the United States — from local nature reserves to national parks — and it has made some places 10 times louder, according to a new study.

Researchers from the Digital Geography at the University of Helsinki have been studying whether social media data could be used to understand visitor's activities in national parks and most recent results are presented in Scientific reports: Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas.

In the Northern Rockies, gray wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park, a large protected area where neither cattle grazing nor big game hunting are allowed.

«The findings for Niassa National Reserve are particularly encouraging in the African context because deforestation rates on the continent are five times higher than the global average, and many protected areas in Africa are losing a lot more forest.»

Protected natural areas in Costa Rica reduced poverty by 16 percent in neighboring communities, mainly by encouraging ecotourism, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The marine - reserve idea got a big boost in 2000, when President Clinton issued an executive order directing the federal government to set up a system of protected marine areas, analogous to the national parks on land.

Protected areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, are thought to provide a refuge for wildlife, but according to a new study, many of these areas are not safe from light pollution.

About 200 countries worldwide committed to protecting 10 % of national marine areas by signing the Convention on Biological Diversity.

INBio «handled the subject and biodiversity better than any country in the world,» he says that, thanks to INBio, «no other country has developed a national inventory of biodiversity like Costa Rica and no other country has such precise information about the species present in their protected areas.»

By contrast, national and state parks in the Amazon benefit from the Amazon Region Protected Areas program, which has received $ 200 million from the World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and Ford Foundation.

An estimated 1 % of world oceans are already protected by various kinds of reserves, but there are few protected areas in waters beyond the 200 - nautical - mile exclusive economic zones off national coasts.

While national and international laws protect the Critically Endangered western lowland gorilla and the Endangered central chimpanzee, both subspecies continue to be threatened by hunters and traders seeking to supply the illegal commercial market and demand for bushmeat, particularly in urban areas.

Since 2009, the Peregrine Fund has translocated 104 nestlings from the species» stronghold in a national park to a protected resort area called Punta Cana 130 kilometers away.

Protected areas, like national parks and nature reserves, are areas designated or regulated to achieve specific biodiversity conservation objectives.