Sentences with phrase «other habitats where»

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The monarch butterfly, which winters in the forests of Michoacán (the state where many avocados are grown), could potentially be put at risk, along with other plants and animals in the habitat.

An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural habitat where other plants and animals can use it.

In other cases — where tradeoffs between shade cover and productivity are too severe — farms may choose to provide tree cover or natural habitat in other ways.

The 2002 IFOAM Basic Standards for Organic Agriculture Production and Processing67 include principles and recommendations on «organic ecosystems» where provisions are made to «maintain a significant portion of farms to facilitate biodiversity and nature conservation», including (among others) wildlife refuge habitats and wildlife corridors that provide linkages and connectivity to native habitat.

Located in the area where Drumlin Underground has stood for more than fifty years, this larger landscape features our red fox and other wildlife that occupy the edge habitat that dominates the farm.

Mink are an introduced and highly predatory species which represents the main threat to water voles and other native wildlife where the habitat is suitable.

Other animals in dark, still habitats where scent is a giveaway could have evolved similar camouflage, says Resetarits.

To help Arctic organisms cope, Norway and other nations are identifying areas where icy habitats could be protected, and constructing marine protected areas around them.

The new report, from a panel of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, says that too little is known about endocrine disruptors to say where they rank compared to other environmental problems such as global warming and loss of species habitat.

In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.

When cryoconite particles carve out a melt hole in a glacier, they create a new environment: a habitat where they and other organisms can reside.

Small changes in an organism's metabolic performance can have major consequences for its success in its natural habitat, where it is in competition with other species and faces losses from predation or viral infection.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

«Increases in Common Raven distribution and abundance in the American west mirror declines in distribution and abundance of Greater Sage - Grouse, where energy transmission corridors and other land use changes have altered sagebrush steppe habitat,» said David Delehanty of ISU.

Here we see that the conclusion is «The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.»

The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.

I got to the beach really early and found a great spot where I could watch the penguins, who have been rescued and looked after by SANCCOB (An organisation who primarily save African Penguins and other threatened seabirds), finally released back into their natural habitat after the terrible ordeals they had experienced.

The other four islands where these salamanders live (East Anacapa, Middle Anacapa, West Anacapa, and San Miguel islands) are managed entirely as natural areas and appear to provide good salamander habitat.

There is an elaborate network of salt water flats, creeks and lagoons making up this oceanscape where many species of fish, lobster and other fish find habitat in mangroves and seagrass.

Chabil Mar is also ideally situated close to some of the top parks and nature reserves in the country where jaguars and other endangered species are allowed to thrive in protected habitats.

The area also has a wide variety of sanctuaries where many species of birds and other animals can be seen in their natural habitat.

Cairns Hot Air Ballooning takes you over the beautiful Atherton Tablelands where you have the opportunity to sneak up on grazing kangaroos, wallabies and other wildlife in their natural habitat, even unsuspecting people coming out of their house in their pyjamas to collect the newspaper.

The vignette seems to be set in a time and place where nature and people collide, where people and natural habitat encroach upon each other, and where time has no clear recognition of a particular era — it could be anywhere, almost at any modern time, since humans and nature are always intersecting and at odds with each other.

El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World, 2012) is a stirring two - screen video installation by Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho that depicts two worlds, separated by time, where two characters — one living in a world on the brink of the apocalypse, and the other in a post-apocalyptic, sterile habitat — work to collect objects that come to define humankind.

Their eggs provide calcium that supports growth of dune vegetation which is the frontline against hurricane impacts on other inland habitats (where people like to build people their homes).

Our other problems (overpopulation, water pollution and shortages, habitat destruction, sprawl and gridlock — and resultant conflict) make their presence known quite independently, thank you very much, no matter where you live.

First, climate change is likely to open new habitats and close others — for example, some mammals have already begun moving to higher elevations, where possible, to adjust to warming environments.

The length of the growing season in interior Alaska has increased 45 % over the last century7 and that trend is projected to continue.8 This could improve conditions for agriculture where moisture is adequate, but will reduce water storage and increase the risks of more extensive wildfire and insect outbreaks across much of Alaska.9, 10 Changes in dates of snowmelt and freeze - up would influence seasonal migration of birds and other animals, increase the likelihood and rate of northerly range expansion of native and non-native species, alter the habitats of both ecologically important and endangered species, and affect ocean currents.11

Placement of these structures directly in the isolated habitat areas where the Golden Eagle and other raptors are and then propose to mitigate collision problems is a false hope.

(Diverse prairie systems also provide this as well as bird movements and other natural phenomenon but trees and forests, the natural habitat where most humans live, are unparalleled in this regard.

Environmentalists point to what's happening already with the Forest Service, where firefighting costs have ballooned and other programs — including recreation and habitat restoration — have suffered.

If you're looking for a one - billion - pound law firm, you'll need to search outside New York, Los Angeles or other urban habitats where you might expect to find it.

«A lot of emphasis is given to housing density whereas this would provide an opportunity for homebuyers to live in a more balanced environment where brownfield sites and other inhospitable sites are properly remediated and put to good use, as well as creating and providing better habitats for wildlife.

123 However, where the SCI concerned hosts a priority natural habitat type and / or a priority species, the only considerations which may be raised, under the second subparagraph of Article 6 (4) of Directive 92/43, are those relating to human health or public safety, to beneficial consequences of primary importance for the environment or, further to an opinion from the Commission, to other imperative reasons of overriding public interest.