Sentences with phrase «natural habitat on»

Our next stop and the highlight for most is the opportunity to walk amongst Australian sea lions, in their natural habitat on a guided interpretive walk at Seal Bay.

See crocodiles in their natural habitat on Proserpine River, on the fully guided Whitsunday Crocodile Safari.

See Crocodiles in their natural habitat on Proserpine River on the fully guided Whitsunday Crocodile Safari.

It always has been one of the most coveted animals to see, whether visiting a zoo, wild animal park or for the more fortunate, seeing one in its natural habitat on a Safari (One of my top five on my bucket list)!

Explore the beautiful landscapes of Banff and observe animals in their natural habitat on this...

1) Watch them in their natural habitat on one of our reef snorkel or dive trips!

They're in their natural habitat on the beach though, and if you were paying attention earlier you'll know that this is one of those rare occasions when you can freely wear flip - flops.

This hidden away natural habitat on the backside of our property has oak, cedar and Douglas fir trees, wild edible greens (including Miners Lettuce as featured in the recipe below), wild strawberries, Indian plums, wild flowers, and is a popular haven for the local wildlife including elk, deer, coyote, bobcat, and a wide variety of birds.

This hidden away natural habitat on the backside of our property has oak, cedar and Douglas fir trees, wild edible greens (including Miners Lettuce as featured in the recipe below), wild strawberries, Indian plums, wild flowers, and is a popular haven for the local wildlife including elk, deer, coyote, bobcat, and a wide variety of birds.

Here at Sailrock, we take the Turks and Caicos slogan, «beautiful by nature» very seriously and have committed to construction, renovation, maintenance and restoration of historic assets and natural habitats on our island.

Not exact matches

The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

With respect for the natural habitat and Pechanga heritage, design and construction of the top - ranked Journey at Pechanga golf course on nearly 300 acres / 121 hectares of unique, ancestral land, preserved most native oak trees; those removed were moved and transplanted at considerable expense.

In 2017 - 18, Commonwealth environmental water will continue to build on the positive responses of vegetation from past environmental watering and natural flows; and provide habitat and recruitment opportunities for waterbirds, native fish, turtles and frogs.

Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

we are about to look in on an exceedingly rare bird, Steve Timmons, in his natural habitat.

The wood is responsibly found and sourced so that there will be no impact on animal's natural habitat in forests.

Visiting all eleven stops on the Farmyard Loop trail takes about 30 minutes, although you can easily spend one and a half to two hours enjoying the animals and natural habitats along the Farmyard Loop.

My personal observation on the behavior of sanctimommies in their natural habitat is that they tend to suffer from overwhelmingly from ostentatious «sadness».

Robert Thorson, author of The Guide to Walden Pond, will present on the natural habitat, history, landscape, and literature of the first guide to this cherished natural and literary landmark.

Effects on one part of an ecosystem affect other parts over time, and climate change is already altering many natural habitats vital to New England.

We are so focused on a vision of a particular kind of perfect child that we fail to see the actual creature mucking about in his or her natural habitat.

The Academy has a large number of Bailey's photographs in their Archives taken on his trips all over the United States and Canada with the intention of recording a variety of species of birds in their natural habitat.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

When so much of the Massachusetts landscape reflects the impacts of human activities, it is critical that we apply our knowledge of natural systems to maximize habitat function on our wildlife sanctuaries.

Other noteworthy aspects of the site: a supporter list, clear email signup form on the front page (if possible, better to have it on every page), a list of upcoming events, and even a brief tour of Zimon yard signs in their natural habitat.

Originally founded in 1994, on top of the Kodak Office Tower, the Rochester Peregrine Falcon Project set up a nest box to simulate the flacon's natural cliff habitat.

In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

The researchers say that although the study focused on a habitat in Puget Sound, the results provide an important framework to evaluate other seagrass and estuarine habitats that tend to have lower inherent buffering capacity and large natural variations in chemistry.

The two major dams, the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas and the Glen Canyon Dam below Lake Powell in Utah, have had major effects on wildlife and fish in the Colorado River, altering their natural ecosystems, drowning their habitat, and changing the temperatures of the waters in which they evolved.

Left to right: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist Brad Michael and Emily Heggenstaller, a golden - winged warbler biologist, meet with private landowners Mike and Laura Jackson to discuss young forest habitat management on their property.

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

It is thought that the high efficiency of the kit was due to mycorrhizal fungi that adhered to the items collected from the natural orchid habitat, which had a favorable effect on the growth of Gastrodia orchids.

It can give a more detailed insight on call patterns, respiration times and swimming speeds of fin whales in their natural habitat, without disturbing them with any human presence.»

«If you're basically farming a reef, you've taken a natural habitat and you've converted it,» says Steve Vollmer, a coral geneticist at Northeastern University's Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts, who feels that more needs to be known before embarking on such programmes.

It was one of the first research hubs in the world to build transmitters to track and analyze sharks in their natural habitat; previously, researchers relied on scuba diving or catching the animals as a means to study them up close.

Sage grouse are on the decline, and scientists think that (in addition to habitat loss) the problem may be that noise pollution from natural gas development in their native areas across the western United States interferes with successful mating.

The Eye sits on the ocean floor and quietly records bioluminescent organisms in their natural habitat without scaring them.

• 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.

Martín Ramírez, from the Argentinian Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study, commented on the habitat specificity of this species, «confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great Otway National Park, or in mountain ash trees, upon which the myrtle trees depend,» thus making an important case for the conservation of such habitats.

The axolotl is on the brink of annihilation in the canals of Mexico City, its only natural habitat.

On the other hand, dam decommissioning converts reservoirs back to fast - flowing rivers, restoring river species to their natural habitats over the long run.

«Having a grasp on which animals tolerate urbanisation gives us a better idea of which ones we need to focus on when preserving natural habitats,» she says.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

It's based on a counterintuitive premise: that fishermen can protect rainforest, nourish the local economy, and promote animal welfare by taking large volumes of wild fish out of their natural habitats to ship them thousands of miles away.

«Urbanization can lead to loss or extirpation of species entirely from a region, through habitat loss and pressure from non-native species,» says Dennis Skultety, a GIS / GPS specialist with the Illinois Natural History Survey at U of I, and the lead author on the study.

When shaken in the lab, or when thrashed by turbulent currents in its natural habitat, the seaweed's two sexes hold on to their gametes, releasing them only when the water is tranquil.

The fish spawn only on a submerged shelf that's just a few meters on each side, the smallest natural habitat of any vertebrate.

Top on their agenda: new technology that holds the promise of protecting natural water habitats from pollution as well as tech that purifies current water systems better and helps tap into new potential sources of drinking water.

The study identifies such climate change refugia based on the amount of natural habitat present and the risk that regions shift to a different type of natural vegetation due to climate change — a phenomenon known as «biome shift».