Sentences with phrase «prime habitat»

By removing logs, dead trees and other debris, we are destroying prime habitat for solitary bees and other insects.

Join us on an early morning breakfast tour out to the tranquil Arkaroola Waterhole, prime habitat of the beautiful Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby.

So this group selected 11 of Michigan's imperiled mussels and created models that not only looked at prime habitat now and in the future for them, but also for their corresponding fish hosts.

A study by researchers at the University of Tennessee on how cougars use wildlife passages along the Trans - Canada Highway in and around Banff National Park found the cats prefer underpasses to overpasses — particularly those near prime habitat.

Dredging in bays and estuaries is destroying prime habitat while sources of pollution are resulting in algae blooms that cloud the water and prevent photosynthesis.

«Drilling near breeding areas would be prohibited during mating season, and power lines would be moved away from prime habitat to avoid serving as perches for raptors who prey on sage grouse,» notes Bette Grande, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute and a former North Dakota state legislator.

These are prime habitat locations for voles, mice and other small rodents.

Almost all the areas most suited for palm oil in Liberia (96 percent), Sierra Leone (86 percent), Congo (81 percent) Gabon (80 percent) are prime habitat for great apes.

Fewer than 800 individuals remain, and the construction of a dam and road threaten the prime habitat of the ape, which is distinguished from its cousins by, among other things, frizzier hair and a taste for caterpillars.

We also know that mattresses and pillows are a prime habitat for dust mites due to the presence of dead skin cells - their food of choice.

Outdoor tick control should include regular cutting of tall grass, brush and weeds, because this type of vegetation is a prime habitat for adult ticks.

Park lands are prime habitat for prairie falcons, and are a release site for California condors that have been hatched in captivity.

«A national / provincial approach would include all remaining forest landscapes in a REDD scheme, including highly threatened lowland forests, prime habitats for primates and other species, and also huge carbon stores,» said Gaveau.