Sentences with phrase «of habitats for»

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It boasts a diversity of habitats for a variety of animals including flamingoes, howler monkeys, crocodiles, turtles, jaguars, pheasants and white tail deer.

San Diego is a beautiful and special place, boasting a tremendous variety of habitats for many wild animals.

With this in mind, researchers from Concordia and the University of Tennessee studied the importance of different types of habitats for insectivorous bats living in and around agricultural regions.

Multituberculates arose in the Jurassic period and went extinct in the Oligocene epoch, occupying a diverse range of habitats for more than 100 million years before they were out - competed by more modern rodents.

As part of the mines continued operations the waste rock dump is to be expanded, resulting in the loss of 75.7 ha of habitat for three threatened species of Black Cockatoo.

Our service of wealth hastens the pollution of the Earth, the exhaustion of resources, the elimination of habitat for other species, the degradation of water, soil, and air.

The poor are driven out of their habitat for the sake of «development».

Located on the island of Sumatra, Kerinci is an important center for global cinnamon production as well as the home of Indonesia's highest volcano and one of the few remaining pockets of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.

Results led directly to control activities focusing on protection of habitat for grassland nesting birds.

This research will enable a clear path for cost - saving decisions, better targeting of investments and hopefully, more successful conservation of habitat for the long - term.

«We have documented loss of sea ice and reductions of habitat for Arctic marine mammals across most of the circumpolar Arctic, so this area is not unique,» said co-author Kristin Laidre, a UW associate professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and the Polar Science Center.

The projected result: widespread climate - induced forest die - offs, shifts in ecosystem structure and function, a concomitant loss of habitat for plants and animals, and the elimination of large carbon stores.

This will help them think about trees as a part of the habitat for local animals.

Clearing of habitat for agriculture and other development is partially to blame, although scientists have identified feral cats and foxes as the primary cause of the decline.

Discovering weeds before they become well - established is critical to reducing damage to ecosystem integrity, preventing the loss of habitat for rare plants and animals, and preventing costly natural resource management.

The «living roof» we designed for a corporate office building in San Bruno, California, for example, creates acres of habitat for local birds and grasses.

Forest carbon projects provided many «fairly impressive co-benefits in 2013, including 9,000 jobs; 13 million hectares of habitat for endangered species; and $ 41 million in education, health care, and infrastructure, Goldstein said.

Increasing the quantity and quality of habitat for pollinators is a major part of this effort — with actions ranging from the construction of pollinator gardens at Federal buildings to the restoration of millions of acres of Federally managed lands and similar actions on private lands.

The Butterflyway Project is a citizen - led movement that is growing highways of habitat for bees and butterflies through neighbourhoods in communities across Canada.

Dam removal will improve water quality and open access to hundreds of miles of habitat for endangered salmon and steelhead, ideally resolving lingering disputes over water in the basin and providing greater economic security for fishing, tribal, and agricultural communities.

The result is an increase in the severity and frequency of floods, the displacement and destruction of habitat for fish and other water dependent species, and a decrease in base flows in our streams and water in our aquifers.

Unless Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Shelf collapse very quickly, we'll run out of habitat for humans long before seas rise sufficiently to remove habitat.

In 2007, the Deadman Creek Conservation Bank was established south of the City of Merced to preserve 684 acres of habitat for this adorable species.

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Beyond algae, sloth fur is also a habitat for a whole range of organisms, from moths and cockroaches to fungi.

Ecoterrorists claimed responsibility in 1998 for burning part of a Colorado ski resort they said threatened animal habitats.

«We offered yesterday to take possession of the deer and transport it to a suitable habitat,» said Sean Mahar, a spokesman for the department.

It's a result of a $ 17.8 million contract the company signed with NASA in 2012 to develop and test expandable habitat technology for potential use in deep space.

But instead of the black and lifeless lake that lay impounded behind it just two years ago, now there is a firm, rolling meadow sprinkled with snags for hawks to roost on and boulders to create wildlife habitat.

Meanwhile, development projects such as marinas and residential buildings constructed in California's estuaries have pushed stingrays out of their traditional habitats and into coastal waters, where the rays provide easy food for baby white sharks.

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.»

The environment of continuing monetary accommodation — necessary to support activity and boost inflation — may lead to a continued search for yield where there is too much money chasing too few yielding assets, pushing investors beyond their traditional habitats.

Ellliman has said from Day 1 that agents could use their marketing budgets to pay StreetEasy's fees, and last week Realogy — parent company of Corcoran, Citi Habitats and Sotheby's International Realty — announced a multi-year deal with Zillow to cover StreetEasy fees for its New York City agents.

The paper urges NASA to support Amazon's notional shipment service that would bring gear for experiments, as much as 10,000 pounds of cargo, and habitats to aid «future human settlement» on the moon.

Under the agreement a perpetual restrictive covenant has been placed on the 121.7 ha which will require the area to be maintained and managed for its value as native vegetation with improvement of its assessed habitat score from 7/10 to 8/10 over a 20 - year period.

In the same vein, in 2016 - 2107 AACO ran a series of webinars on offsetting for caribou and caribou habitat (recordings of which can be found here).

Jane Kirchner has spent more than 20 years helping save open lands and advocating for the protection of wildlife habitat.

Caribou planning often talked of using offsets as a tool for arresting the decline of the species and its habitat.

But most of the vitriol was reserved for the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), the federal body entrusted with protecting fish and fish habitat.

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.

RENO, Nev. (AP)-- Newmont Mining Corp. officials signed an agreement Tuesday with the U.S. government and the state of Nevada to protect some of the most critical sage grouse habitat in the West in exchange for assurances it will be allowed to develop...

Every phase takes on a new aspect towards the ultimate goal of building 3D printed habitats designed for deep space exploration and colonization.

PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and habitats, among a multitude of other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

This is often abandoned after a few years because it is not really suitable for this purpose, but the destruction of forest cover and animal habitat has long - lasting consequences.

His proposal calls for local patterns of production, distribution and technologies appropriate to our habitat, appropriate lifestyles and appropriate human - earth relations.

«We have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants, our sense of gratitude, our willingness to recognize the sacred character of habitat, our capacity for the awesome, for the numinous quality of every earthly reality,» he writes.

But the other reason is that fossilization is a very rare event and only takes place in a few types of habitats (ones in which oxygen is absent for example).

The animals we kill for food and whose habitat we steal for farmland and housing and other development could just as well consider all of humanity evil.