Sentences with phrase «on improving habitat»

Instead, Lewis and other committee members say that the focus of recovery efforts must be on improving habitat for spawning and rearing.

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Mass Audubon has received a $ 25,900 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) for our work educating children and adults throughout central Massachusetts on improving water quality and habitat, focusing on the use of cost - effective Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development (LID).

Mass Audubon has received a $ 25,900 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) for our work educating children and adults throughout central Massachusetts on improving water quality and habitat, focusing on the use of cost - effective Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development.

This year's to - do lists include (depending on the sanctuary) removing invasive species; preparing garden beds to attract a variety of visitors, from birds and butterflies to people; cleaning nature play areas; restoring habitats; maintaining trails; and improving entrance areas.

We help to improve and manage habitats, increasing biodiversity and we work in partnership with conservation organisations on the ground locally and nationally.

And for little if any gain: The study concludes that critical habitat designation does not correlate with better data on the habitat or improved measures to preserve it.

Instead of paying for work to improve woodland habitats, the grant will be spent on car parks, signs and picnic areas — to improve public access to woodlands

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

But on the downside, many habitats have not improved.

This reduced browsing on willows, enabling the willows to flourish, thus improving habitat for songbirds and increasing biodiversity.

It will focus on a representative degraded ecosystem surrounded by protected areas and carry out measures to improve habitats as well as to enhance the conservation status of 47 targeted flora and fauna species.

«If you go to a museum or zoo, they've spent thousands, in some cases millions, of dollars creating natural habitats for these animals but you go into a pet store and nothing has improved in years on creating that look,» he says.

Since 2009, NPS and Parks Conservancy staff have worked together to improve habitat for endangered coho salmon and threatened steelhead trout, maintain habitat for threatened California red - legged frogs, decrease flooding on nearby roads, and create a self - sustaining ecosystem that requires minimal future intervention.

Santa Barbara Island: On Santa Barbara Island, efforts are underway to restore seabird nesting habitat for Scripps's murrelets and Cassin's Aucklets by removing non-native plants and planting native vegetation to improve seabird habitat.

Although not the body of water that it once was, US Fish & Wildlife is has taken on the challenge to improve the lagoon to create a better habitat for migratory and aquatic birds.

Responsible travel primarily focused on the observation of wildlife in its natural habitat while protecting the environment and improving the welfare of local people.

Green infrastructure brings nature into the city, which can improve both mental and physical health, increase property value, conserve energy, enhance wildlife habitat and save money on more costly pipe infrastructure.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Climate Change Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing such data.

«A balanced use of CRAs should focus on improving functional and ecological attributes of forested landscapes, e.g., habitat integrity (and thus biodiversity), carbon stocks, and water balance regulation, crucial for maintaining hydroelectric power generation in Brazil.»

Improving Habitat With Art «It was great to have artists this year that understood the importance of using only natural materials and techniques that would not harm the environment of the wetlands nature preserve and help to improve the habitat for the wildlife,» Allen wrote on the project's blog.

Off among farmland in Mehrauli, just outside the city of Delhi proper but still within the city limits, on now - degraded land thousands of trees have been planted in an effort to reestablish forests, providing expanded wildlife habitat and ecosystem restoration — which as Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh (above, talking with students attending the event) is keen to point out at every opportunity means improved livelihoods for people as well.

They've also made an effort to improve the habitat surrounding the pier, such as building artificial reefs and installing special nets on the back side of barge moorings to cultivate water - cleaning muscles.

This project is designed to work with a broad array of landowners certified to SFI standards to identify priority habitats for bird conservation, improve management scenarios for these habitats, and focus on locations where the lands intersect with critical habitats in North America.

By partnering with close to 500 landowners on over 120,000 acres to date to reforest their degraded lands, GreenTrees has enhanced wildlife habitat, improved water and soil quality and delivered local economic development benefits in addition to generating over 2.5 million tonnes of verified carbon offsets for partners including Norfolk Southern, Duke Energy, United Airlines, Arbor Day Foundation, Blue Mountain Brewery and Skyway Air Taxi, among others.