Sentences with phrase «other native habitats»

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Using Commonwealth environmental water on the floodplain provides food, habitat and breeding opportunities for native fish, frogs, plants, waterbirds and other wildlife.

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.

These native plants enhance the serene tranquility of the park, while providing a welcoming habitat for butterflies, dragonflies and other beneficial insects.

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.

Steve: And have some kind of other, for example, in the Everglades [you have] cattails that move [in] and displace the native plant species and they ruin their habitat.

In their upcoming second Ecological Restoration publication titled «Resurgence of Native Plants After Removal of Amur honeysuckle from Bender Mountain Preserve,» Conover and Sisson reveal the lengths to which honeysuckle alters habitats by decreasing light availability and depleting soil moisture and nutrients, as well as by possibly releasing toxic chemicals that prevent other plant species from growing in the vicinity.

Sea ice is a crucial part of the ecosystems at both poles, providing habitat and influencing food availability for penguins, polar bears and other native species.

Rhesus macaques could potentially impact the native plant and animal species in the park in several ways; for example, eating plants needed by other animals, changing the plant composition in the park, or pushing other animals out of the habitat by being aggressive, Anderson said.

It gives us the chance to protect the most important areas for other native species while protecting more panda habitats.»

Invite students to use the Reptile Alphabet List on the Internet and other library resources to learn about native habitats of some lizards.

DOT works with many other Federal agencies to promote the health of ecosystems, habitats, and native species.

Merely removing cats, as in catch - and - kill, creates an abrupt habitat void, soon filled by cats coming from other nearby habitats, rather than by native predators, who typically have less than half the fecundity of cats.

Even just - hatched young are much more active than other hatchling Pituophis, and this innate tendency to «keep moving» may be an artifact of inbreeding amongst a small, insular population, or may have evolved as a beneficial behavior for feeding or predator evasion in their native habitat.

The native island vegetation is mostly coastal scrub, but these habitats have been heavily modified by the effects of introduced grazing animals and other human impacts.

After a bush lunch the tour leaves Flinders Chase and continues along the north coast to Lathami Conservation Park, habitat for the endangered glossy black cockatoo and home to wallabies, kangaroos and a host of other native flora and fauna.

Finally, the Booby Pond Nature Reserve on Little Cayman provides a habitat for red - footed boobies, other shore birds and a high diversity of native plants.

Native birds remain subject to other threats, of course: feral cats, habitat degradation from free - ranging goats and donkeys, and outright habitat loss due to hotel and golf - course development.

Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but causing more problems for native plant populations than for monkey species sharing the same habitat.

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

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

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.»

A practical goal for a habitat garden, say the Bowens, «is to have at least 50 % Upper Texas Gulf Coast native plants and to have the other 50 % made up of well adapted plants from other regions.»

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.

These creeks provide cover and habitat for deer, turkey, hogs, bobcats, and many other native Florida wildlife species.