Sentences with phrase «of critical wildlife habitat»

The new policy targets several of the major criticisms against APP, including deforestation, degradation of high carbon peatlands, conservation of critical wildlife habitat, and social conflict with local communities.

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Publicly - owned lands play a critical role in protection of natural habitats, wildlife, and water resources.

Mass Audubon recognizes and appreciates the sporting community's contributions to wildlife management and in conserving critical wildlife habitat, including thousands of acres in Massachusetts through their federal duck stamp purchases and fees collected from Massachusetts fishing, hunting, and sporting licenses.

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.

Ensure that industry, mining, infrastructure, and rural development programs and projects are fully sensitive to the conservation needs of snow leopards and their ecosystems, do not adversely affect or fragment key populations or critical habitats, and employ wildlife - friendly design, offsets, and other mitigation tools.

And of course, you should never return cats to critical wildlife habitat or areas where there is known, ongoing violence towards community cats.

In Louisiana, it's not just beaches, but wetlands that can affected — destroying critical wildlife habitat, hurting tourism and ruining the livelihoods of fishermen throughout the region.

Requires the Secretary to develop a Habitat and Corridors Information System that includes maps and data on fish and wildlife habitat corridors and that identifies, prioritizes, and describes key parcels of non-federal land located within the boundaries of specified types of public land that are critical to maintenance of wildlife habitat and migration corridors.

Even more of an increase would significantly impact sea ports, airports and even threaten critical wildlife habitats.

Areas of the Hudson River could be made off limits to barges carrying crude oil and other petroleum products on the basis of the risk they may pose to critical fish and wildlife habitats, waterfront communities, drinking water infrastructure and navigation safety.

It recognizes much of the land in the Browns Canyon area, including the WSA, as an «area of critical environmental concern» for its wildlife habitat and scenic values.

We scale projects protecting critical eco-regions around the world and connecting often isolated islands of habitat to restore threatened wildlife populations.

They provide critical wildlife habitat and nurseries for nearly half of the nation's endangered species.

But, as a non-polluting energy source, wind energy is one of the most environmentally benign ways to generate electricity and is far less harmful to wildlife than energy sources it displaces — including to birds, and their critical habitats.