Sentences with phrase «other important habitats»
Companies and their customers can choose palm oil that's been grown in a sustainable way — meaning no more forests and other important habitats are destroyed, and the rights of workers and local communities are respected.
http://palmoilscorecard.panda.org/ Not exact matches
Two Landscape Management Boards (LMB) will provide participatory forest landscape governance, helping to monitor and control the surrounding 61,190 hectares (151,139 acres) of forest reserves, which are critically important habitat for the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and other species.
During the flooding period, the network of irrigation canals and the organic paddy fields close to lagoons become a crucial link between marine and river environments, and provide an important habitat for many species of fish and amphibians, such as damnbusia (Gambusia holbrooki), carp (Cyprinus carpio), fartet (Lebias ibera - an endemic fish of the western Mediterranean Sea), coruna frog (Rana perezi), and others.
«The reason why he was so important and difficult to get is what he did in the Premier League because obviously there are other good strikers in football but the Premier League is a very specific habitat, a different habitat, normally they need some time to adapt and Lukaku plays in Premier League for the last four or five seasons,» Mourinho told reporters.
The magnificent beaches of the Cape Cod National Seashore provide important nesting and migration habitat for the threatened piping plover and endangered roseate tern along with other species.
«NYSTA's knowledge of highway use and regulation and traffic impacts, while important, is highly limited within the context of a complex environmental review covering surface and groundwater, soils, bedrock and geology, storm water, air quality, habitat, and climate, among other areas of specialized knowledge and expertise,» they wrote.
LUSH LAWNS Once dwindling seagrasses and other underwater plants in the Chesapeake Bay have rebounded in recent years, providing important habitat for animals such as this blue crab.
The researchers say that although the study focused on a habitat in Puget Sound, the results provide an important framework to evaluate other seagrass and estuarine habitats that tend to have lower inherent buffering capacity and large natural variations in chemistry.
Our best hope is therefore to encourage the trends towards rising prosperity and demographic transition in developing countries, in order to allow their forests and other important natural habitats to survive and regrow.
Each patch may be a diverse habitat of plants, animals, and insects but it is equally important that the landscape «quilt» is made up of a diversity of patches that are different from each other.
«It's also important to understand how bees and other pollinating insects search for food and use the landscape is crucial to managing the risks to pollinator services posed by habitat loss and agricultural intensification.»
It enabled predation and grazing to play roles equally important to resources or habitat, with predation having the key role for some populations and resources having the dominant role in others.
The dodo and the Carolina parakeet were important dispersers of seeds, and their loss has permanently affected forest structure in their habitats; rare insects are often highly specific pollinators whose loss affects the reproduction and survival of other plants.
Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.
The lab results suggest that one group of spiders could reward mimicry whereas the other penalizes it, but it's not yet clear how important those particular spiders are to the mimics in their natural habitat — especially compared with other predators such as birds.
These are likely the corridors jaguars slipped through and are important habitat for numerous other species.
It gives us the chance to protect the most important areas for other native species while protecting more panda habitats.»
Urbanization is an important factor because it changes the species composition in an area, favoring the types of mosquitoes that live near and feed on people, such as Aedes aegypti, and causing other species to decline, such as those adapted to wetlands and other natural habitats.
What may appear unusual for a wildlife biologist is only natural for Charu: «The people who share the habitat of snow leopards and other endangered species can be a threat to these animals, but they are also our most important partners in protecting them», he explains.
«Therefore, this study adds important new evidence on the safety of neonicotinoid use, but we still can not exclude the impact of other pesticides and habitat loss on the current bee declines.
Besides being adorable, these critters play an important role in our ocean ecosystems by providing habitat for others, helping balance the food chain, and facilitating nutrient cycling.
Since reptiles can't regulate their own body temperature, it's important to set up a hot and cool side of the habitat with temperatures at around 100 °F at one end and around 70 °F at the other.
The offshore marine habitat was long known as an important breeding area for the commercially valuable Queen Conch, as well as a seasonal spawning bank for Nassau and Yellowfin Groupers, and a variety of other species.
Kelp forests surrounding the islands provide important habitat for fish and other sea life.
There are four marine turtle species that live in the shallow waters which are also an important habitat and nursery - area for a large number of fish, crustaceans, and others marine life.
This provides less shoreline protection from storms and fewer habitats for fish and other marine life, including ecologically and economically important species.
SFI is working with The Nature Conservancy North Carolina Chapter to address the quality of wild turkey habitat in that state by connecting private forests through corridors, allowing the greater room needed for wild turkeys and other important species to roam, mate and feed.
Cruz creditably withstood the perennial temptation — among Republicans and Democrats alike — to bow down to Big Corn and the federal mandate for ethanol that has been such a boon to Iowa corn farmers and bane if you care about food prices, greenhouse gas emissions, herbicide use or the loss of wild vegetation in the Midwest that is an important food source for monarchs and habitat for other wildlife.
«And while humans are the species most responsible for transforming oxygen into complaints, it's important to note that other animal life, including mammals, birds, and reptiles, also convert massive amounts of O2 into displeased growls and screeches about their habitats and food sources.»
There's also no discussion of habitat destruction except when the destruction creates MMEs, when habitat destruction is likely far more important than any other factor.
For example, increasing temperatures will lead to increased production of important fishery resources in some areas but decreased production in others while increases in acidification will have negative impacts on important invertebrate species, including species responsible for building coral reefs which provide essential habitat for many fished species in these areas.
The wooded land not only is important as a critical habitat for birds and other wildlife but sequesters carbon that contributes to global climate change.
For example, cod and lobster fisheries south of Cape Cod are projected to have significant declines.83, 84 Although suitable habitats will be shrinking for some species (such as coldwater fish like brook trout) and expanding for others (such as warmwater fish like bass), it is difficult to predict what proportion of species will be able to move or adapt as their optimum climate zones shift.85 As each species responds uniquely to climate change, disruptions of important species interactions (plants and pollinators; predators and prey) can be expected.
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
That is especially important if we continue to divert millions of acres of farmland from food crops, and convert millions of acres of rainforest and other wildlife habitat to cropland, for biofuel production to replace fossil fuels that we again have in abundance.
The protected land provides clean water for the Arkansas River's Gold Medal trout fishery, important wildlife habitat, biological diversity, outdoor recreation opportunities, scenic beauty, cattle grazing and other uses.
The sheer ruggedness, proximity to water and lower elevation provides important habitat for wildlife, including black bears, bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, American pine martins, mountain lions, eagles, falcons, imperiled bats, and many other species of wildlife.
Climate change and habitat loss are battering butterflies, which are so important to plant pollination, to the health of other species who feed on them, and to us - who adore watching them.
This is an important number because it'll be used in all kinds of other research, such as climate models, studies on animal and plant habitats and biodiversity, etc..
Bill Dotzler, a state senator who helped the TPC gain the necessary initial funding, is hopeful about their potential: «You almost get a trifecta with this — you clean the streams, you provide habitat for pheasants and other wildlife and you produce an alternative fuel... It's not going to be the whole answer, but I think burning the native plants could be an important part of the whole puzzle.»
SFI's Program Participants engage in a tremendous array of projects every day that help conserve the diversity of habitats, water quality and other important aspects of North America's great natural heritage.
If on the other hand the moderately impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable habitat for several important native species of wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land for agriculture.