Sentences with phrase «nearby protected areas»

Not to mention the nearby protected areas.

Scientists figured that out by looking at conflicts across the continent dating back to 1946 and tying them to information about how many animals were in nearby protected areas.

Not exact matches

The area surrounding the positive mosquito batch in Mount Vernon has been inspected by the health department, which has treated nearby catch basins that to protect against further -LSB-...]

Endangered seals in a marine protected area are heading towards local extinction, even while the same species thrives in an unprotected area nearby.

Although a good portion of the central city is now protected, archaeologists are discovering related sites throughout a six - county region on both sides of the nearby Mississippi — an area 3,600 miles square.

In a protected cove and opposite the beach, its favoured location is close to all the nearby amenities and facilities and away from busy traffic areas.

The exhibit includes many of the species native to the nearby marine protected areas.

To protect the wildlife, other visitors, and your pet, we suggest that you visit nearby areas such as the Coastal Trail at Muir Beach, and some trails in the Marin Headlands where they are permitted.

Nearby there is a paradise beach at Misali Island, a short boat trip away and inside the protected marine conservation area.

The Preserve is protected open space and acts as a gateway to existing and future protected coastal resource areas nearby, via trails linking the Goleta Monarch Grove, Ellwood Shores coastal bluffs, Santa Barbara Shores County Park, the Devereux Slough and the beach.

Marine protected areas, although the picture is complicated, have the potential to serve as nurseries sustaining fisheries for nearby communities dependent on ocean resources.

There are still issues to address — such as nearby high - seas fishing and the challenges in patrolling such a large protected area.

The Mikoko Pamoja model is now being expanded to nearby Vanga Bay as part of the Global Environment Facility - backed Blue Forests Project, effectively tripling the area of mangrove protected and the carbon credits sold.

A Massachusetts conservation group says it will sue ExxonMobil for failing to protect the Boston harbor area from an old, leaky oil terminal that spews toxic material into nearby rivers, charging that the company's dual...

A breakwater built in the 1940s to protect the Long Beach port «traps urban runoff, making the city's water quality among the poorest in the state» and exhaust from the many vehicles operating, and idling, in the harbor area hangs over nearby communities.

The turtles aren't quite out of the woods yet (that's a strange image...), because even if they are in areas protected from development, they can still be vulnerable to other threats such as stray logs from nearby forestry operations that drift and clutter beaches, blocking the way for turtles and keeping them from landing, or from going back to sea.

It's true that some Bradenton locals don't think their neighborhood is likely to get hit; there's even a rumor making the rounds that the nearby Anna Maria islands and outlying areas are somehow magically protected from storms.

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.