Sentences with phrase «of endangered plants»

This includes the critically endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal, four endemic bird species (Laysan Duck, Laysan Finch, Nihoa Finch and Nihoa Millerbird, and six species of endangered plants such as the Fan Palm.

Spanning 11,000 square kilometers in area, the island is home to several species of endangered plants and animals, as well as tribes of Mangyan people who have lived sustainably from the island's natural resources for generations.

Nearly half of the endangered plants and animals in the United States have been negatively affected by non-native, invasive species.

Nearly half of the endangered plants and animals in the United States have been negatively affected by invasive species.

Elevation is another advantage, because the seeds of the endangered plants can drift off in the wind and take root in the wider landscape, Williams says.

The technology is invaluable for researchers who require mainly a record of static position, like archaeologists platting a dig or botanists recording the location of endangered plants.

She is also able to benefit from the plant - growing skills of the horticultural department by bringing seeds of her endangered plants back to Britain to grow in the glasshouse.

She carries out her fieldwork in an altogether more exotic location, however, because she is looking at the conservation genetics of two groups of endangered plants from St. Helena, a group of islands between South America and Africa.

Not exact matches

The country is renowned for its diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, like three - toed sloths, endangered white - faced capuchin monkeys and hundreds of different bird species.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

The wetland complex is home for 284 species of plants (including 108 regionally endangered, 11 state - wide endangered and 1 nationally endangered), 171 species of birds (making it a significant bird hotspot in South Australia and Australia), 47 species of reptiles, 13 species of mammals, 9 species of fish and 8 species of amphibians.

One of South Australia's natural wonders, Banrock Station is home to 171 species of birds, 47 species of reptiles, 13 species of mammals, nine species of fish, eight species of amphibians and 284 species of plants, some of which are endangered.

These findings are on the one hand relevant for the risk assessment of the transgenic plants: once released, these plants could spread to other rice varieties and endanger rice harvest.

Consisting of 9000 acres, the Reserve protects unique ecosystems and vernal pools, as well as more than 200 species of native birds and 49 endangered, threatened or rare animal and plant species.

Unfortunately, the Hawaiian Islands are among the endangered species capitals of the world and the deer pose an environmental threat, causing harm by overgrazing mountain slopes, damaging critical riparian areas, and introducing invasive plant species.

The garden is nestled in the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains, and planted with rare and endangered species grown from seed, which was collected from the wild in East Asia.

«We'll try to get people into nature with one of the paths into the forest area,» Schimmel said, «and we'll get rid of endangered - plant species and try to install native - species plants and trees, including oaks and maples.»

LINCOLN — Mass Audubon has been honored by the Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM) for its support of the state Endangered Species Act and commitment to vulnerable plants and animals.

In fact, the license renewal process is limited, focusing on environmental effects, such as endangered species, the effects of cooling water systems on fish and ground water quality; and, physical plant safety, such as the long term maintenance of coolant system piping or steam generators, as well as motors, diesel generators, and batteries.

Entergy, the plant's owner, has a history of quickly responding to charges the facility isn't safe or would endanger the high - density population that lives within meltdown range.

Others say Niger Delta harbours many locally and globally endangered species, and approximately 6080 percent of all plant and animal species found in Nigeria.

Some of the numerous questions raised by local citizens over the years include whether trees were improperly cleared, whether the plant encroached upon the habitat of an endangered bat and whether it destroyed wetlands.

This can have a dramatic impact on crops by reducing their yields and can endanger some species of plant altogether.

Jeff Whitworth, associate professor of entomology, says endangered bee populations can be revived through simple practices like growing native plants.

«We are also looking at using the chemical to restore mining areas, to restore and manage endangered plant species, and to improve the horticulture of native plants,» he says.

«Unfortunately, in Hawai`i alone there are 424 federally threatened and endangered plant taxa with very few research biologists and limited funding available to adequately monitor and protect them,» explains the team of scientists.

Not only do we expect to commercialize the cultivation kits domestically, but we also hope to see it used in a wide range of applications from the conservation and growth of endangered species to the cultivation of medicinal plants.»

What's more, trees and flowering plants in wetter forests not often considered to be at risk of drought are endangered by their profligacy with water.

That is why the Duthie Reserve still remains the most suitable habitat to ensure the survival of this rare and critically endangered plant,» he adds.

By one count, 98 species of threatened and endangered plants, many of them orchids and lilies, are disturbed by deer browsing.

Another way Obama can win green friends is to undo a Bush proposal, slated to take effect in December, to cut wildlife experts out of decisions affecting plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.

This region features unique, highly diverse arid and semi-arid habitats inhabited by rare and endangered plants and animals, and provides a vital migratory stopping point for many species of birds and animals on their journey across the continent.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

Interviews with traders at the markets revealed that most of them sourced the majority of their plants from neighbouring countries, despite domestic protections and restrictions on international orchid trade associated with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

The team calculated how the current evolutionary diversity of Halle's flora would change if, firstly, the plants found in Halle listed on the Red List of endangered species disappeared and, secondly, the most common introduced species in Germany which are not yet found in Halle were to migrate there.

Since the ESA was passed in 1973, officials have added 1135 plants and animals to their lists of endangered and threatened species and are currently considering adding 100 more.

Small - scale studies in greenhouses have shown that adding the right soil can promote the growth of a particular plant community, and some researchers have even tried soil transplantation — replacing one soil with another — to get certain endangered plants to grow.

A team led by University of California, Santa Barbara plant ecologist Shelley Crausbay is studying high - elevation cloud forests that provide habitat for a number of rare birds, most of which are endangered.

«The discovery of Shell indicates a clear path toward more intensive use of already planted lands, and thus should lessen pressures to expand the land area devoted to oil palm, notably onto endangered rainforest land — a major concern for the environment and a rallying point for activists in recent years,» says Robert A. Martienssen, Ph.D., scientific co-founder of Orion Genomics, who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.

California officials estimate 70 to 90 percent of coastal sage scrub has been destroyed and that nearly 100 species of plants and animals that inhabit it are classified as rare, sensitive, threatened or endangered.

Like thousands of organisms that live off imperiled plants and animals, the sucking louse is missing from many endangered species lists — and that, says evolutionary ecologist Rob Colwell of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, is an unfortunate oversight.

For the last six years, a team of Australian conservationists has been growing critically endangered native plants on the roofs of buildings in Melbourne.

Silver Springs State Park provides a natural habitat for numerous species, including 18 endemic and 10 endangered plant species, as well as habitat for resident and migratory birds, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Professor Anthony Amend and postdoctoral researcher Geoff Zahn used microbes to restore the health of a critically endangered Hawaiian plant that, until now, had been driven to extinction in the wild and only survived in managed greenhouses under heavy doses of fungicide.

Now — after a long search turned up a «pathetic, wilted» third specimen — a University of Utah botanist and her colleagues identified the spiny plant as a new, possibly endangered species and named it «from the heart» in Latin because it was found in Valentine, Texas, population 134 in 2010.

The global crisis for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled animals and plants rising at record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today.

Based on these findings, the researchers argue that I. araguaiaensis should be considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, an organization that assesses whether plants and animals are endangered.

Some experts have traced estrogen - like chemicals to increased rates of human breast cancer, and there is even more evidence that they endanger animals by feminizing the sex organs of male frogs and fish living downstream from sewage treatment plants.

Last July, the group planted endangered Torreya taxifolia seedlings in new habitat patches north of their customary domain in Florida, where it is becoming too hot for the conifers to survive.

High levels of noise pollution were also found in critical habitat for endangered species, namely in endangered plant and insect habitats.