Sentences with phrase «natural habitats at»

Young Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson is on show at V1 Gallery, with a series of new paintings and drawings depicting lonely figures within natural habitats at the frontier between the uncanny and the familiar.

A first - of - its - kind report shows that human activities like farming and logging are ruining natural habitats at an alarming rate.

«These results indicate that protection of natural habitats at a watershed level, including wetlands and forests, will increase the proportion of rare species and reduce the risk of extinction, which is much greater in aquatic than in terrestrial ecosystems,» Passy said.

See these three, plus leopards, elephants, zebras and more, all living in natural habitats at Florida's zoos.

Feel free, and keep visiting from your natural habitat at le grove, to make a fool of yourself here.

Numerous invasive organisms are currently spreading outside of their natural habitat at an unprecedented rate, mainly due to human actions.

Blu (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) is a macaw who was removed from his natural habitat at birth and happened to «land» in Minnesota.

Through March 31, you can watch elephant seals in their natural habitat at Año Nuevo State Park on the coast between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz.

Through March 31, you can watch young elephant seals in their natural habitat at Año Nuevo State Park on the coast between Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz.

Tour the iconic Hearst Castle, view elephant seals in their natural habitat at the Elephant Seal Rookery, go boutique shopping in Cambria, indulge in wine tasting along the Pacific Coast Wine Trail, or simply turn the radio up and cruise the Pacific Coast Highway.

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.

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.

Even granting something like the teleological order I have asserted, however, some may doubt that this formulation adequately states our responsibilities to our natural habitat, especially responsibilities to the diversity of species in the nonhuman world and to individual animals, at least within species whose members exhibit the capacity to suffer.

What are we to make of such teachings at a time when it is becoming increasingly urgent to make the natural world our beloved habitat lest we perish of our own recklessness toward it?

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.

At the ecosystem level, the maintenance of natural areas within and around organic fields and absence of chemical inputs create suitable habitats for wildlife.

Many of the world's natural habitats, plant species and animal species are in decline or at risk of extinction.

Measures aimed at managing appropriate habitats and thus increasing floral and structural diversity is a key strategy for improved natural pest control.

We've got to be grateful to Aaron Ramsey foremost, he started off well at RW (very well given he's anything but a winger) followed up by a brilliant display back in his natural habitat while interacting with Wilshere and Walcott (both also great for their limited time).

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.

He is a natural welterweight who graduated into the middleweight division for a big - money crack at Ray Robinson and then could not reduce his way back to his natural habitat.

This will be followed by a breakfast workshop at Broadmoor, hosted by Mass Audubon, illustrating how natural green infrastructure can preserve and restore water quality and habitat through good planning, conservation design, and LID.

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.

But yesterday it was revealed that after 40 years at the sharp end of British politics, John Prescott is to leave his natural habitat and join the ermine - clad peers in the House of Lords.»

Earlier experiments have looked at why a certain species does better in a new environment than in its natural habitat.

«Children's inquisitiveness to natural habitats and to ecological relations is relevant to curriculum design for preschool and primary grades,» said Megan Bang, associate professor of education at the University of Washington.

Tumors are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat — body tissues — but a new synthetic tissue environment may give cancer researchers the next - best look at tumor growth and behavior.

This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agriculturalNatural History at the University of Georgia will lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agriculturalnatural habitats and agricultural pests.

«The idea is to keep the specimens as fresh as possible in their natural habitat,» explains David Hutchins, a biological oceanographer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

«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's rather like studying lion behavior in a zoo rather than in its natural habitat,» said Steve Diggle, an associate professor of life sciences at the University of Nottingham.

Nevertheless, the researchers were able to carefully capture a total of 51 dwarf lemurs in live traps at nine locations for this study and to take minute tissue samples before releasing the animals back into their natural habitat.

«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.

To take a peak at this microscopic life in its natural habitat, a team of scientists including Hans Røy, a microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, traveled to the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Associate Professor in the Forestry & Environment Resources Department at NC State University whose research includes «the evolutionary ecology of vertebrate responses to human modification of habitats, and on the dynamics of coupled natural and human systems»

At the same time, field collection of these samples is becoming difficult due to rising concerns worldwide that the natural assets of biodiversity - rich nations need protection from over-sampling, excessive commercialization, and habitat destruction.

Athens, Ga. — This fall researchers at the Georgia Museum of Natural History at the University of Georgia will help lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agriculturalNatural History at the University of Georgia will help lead an effort to digitize around 2.1 million specimens from the order Lepidoptera — moths and butterflies — and to make that data available to scientists studying climate, natural habitats and agriculturalnatural habitats and agricultural pests.

The Arctic is in danger — it's warming at twice the rate of the rest of the Earth, and offshore oil and gas exploration are threatening its pristine natural habitats.

of Lemurs: Madagascar (G) Morgan Freeman narrates this endangered species documentary, shot in IMAX 3D, offering a spectacular peek at lemurs» struggle to survive as civilization continues to encroach on their natural habitat.

They expect to be able to access information from any location and any device at their own convenience; indeed, the screen has now embedded itself into our natural habitat.

Its natural habitat is shooting down the highway at 80 mph or cruising down boulevards.

Arranged exclusively for VMX attendees, Behind the Scenes Tours give you the opportunity to get up close and personal with unfamiliar, non-domesticated species in their natural habitat and provide a glimpse into the inner workings of veterinary care and husbandry at these world - renowned facilities.

A patrol woman at the Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary - the only natural habitat for Asiatic Lions - nurses a four - month old lion cub after he was abandoned by his mother at three days old.

Despite their beautiful presence, in their natural habitat, formerly Russia, Borzois were among the most skilled hunting dogs, masterful at tracking, sighting, and running down wolves.

Dogs may be at risk for a rattlesnake bite if they live or travel in or around a natural rattlesnake habitat.

Support organizations aimed at preserving natural habitats and protecting big cats from poaching.

The Amur tiger was at one time known as the Siberian tiger until they were driven out of their natural habitats -LSB-...]

Get up close and personal with unfamiliar, non-domesticated species in their natural habitats and a glimpse into the inner workings of veterinary care and husbandry at world - renowned facilities.

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.