Sentences with phrase «protect habitat such»

This will mean that Commonwealth environmental water will be used to protect habitat such as permanent waterholes that support the survival of water dependent populations of native plants and animal life,» he said.

Not exact matches

This includes restoring natural systems, minimizing stressors such as invasive species and residential development, increasing habitat diversity, and connecting protected landscapes.

MPA rules vary, but may have restrictions on human uses such as fishing, habitat alteration, or oil and gas extraction in order to protect different ecosystems.

But Hugh Possingham of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, who invented the software used to define such sites, says planners need to be sure to conserve 20 percent or more of every type of habitat within a protected area, and Australia hasn't done that.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

In the US, laws protecting wetlands have given rise to a billion - dollar industry involving 400 such habitats.

The significance and future value of protecting such vast areas of coral reef and associated marine habitat can not be overstated.

The umbrella species concept is one surrogate species strategy in which a species with large area requirements — such as the greater sage grouse — is provided sufficient protected habitat.

• 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.

«While we have made some progress in protecting larger wetlands that act as habitat for wildlife, we have been less successful in protecting smaller ones that continue to be removed to make way for things such as new housing subdivisions.

Although MPAs can work well at protecting habitats like coral reefs and nonmigratory wildlife such as the coconut crab, the authors say that more effort needs to be made to protect migratory species such as the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle from poachers, marine debris, and fishing gear entanglement.

The researchers identified several criteria for choosing umbrella species — such as big carnivores, most long - lived, habitat specialists, and ones on the verge of extinction — and analyzed how many imperiled species might be saved by protecting the habitat of that type of umbrella species, compared to species saved by randomly picking a set of species to serve as the umbrella.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

To help wildlife, the report calls for habitat restoration and wildlife management approaches that can help shield species from extreme heat, such as stream - shading vegetation to help cool waters and protect fish.

«For instance, maintaining and promoting connectivity among habitats and protecting pristine or remnant populations of habitat - forming species — such as coral and kelp — can dramatically foster recovery after extreme climatic events,» said Giulio De Leo, with Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, who also worked on the study.

Legge also found that «cat densities were the same both inside and outside conservation reserves, such as national parks,» despite several decades of all - out efforts to eradicate feral cats from protected habitat.

Most of the Pacific Coast is in the public domain, accessible, and protected from development within national, state, and local parks, which provide habitat for such rare creatures as mountain lions, condors, and gray whales.

Although this species is capable of migrating huge distances from feeding grounds to it's nesting beach they prefer coastline habitats and are most commonly founds around small islands (such as the Gili Islands), bays and protected shores.

The underwater canyons of the Big Creek marine protected areas provide habitat to a variety of deepwater rockfishes such as cabezon and bocaccio.

This is part of the Parks Conservancy's long - term partnership with the National Park Service to restore the entire Redwood Creek Watershed, into Muir Woods and Dias Ridge, to protect wetland habitat for threatened and endangered species, such as Coho salmon and California red - legged frog.

Such a broad spectrum of diverse habitats occurring within a single protected unit is unparalleled in the circumpolar north.

Life on land: The protected forest provides valuable habitat for threatened species, such as lions, leopards and sable and roan antelopes.

Although conservation work, including large protected areas, is having an effect, there do remain concerns about the impact on tiger habitats of activities such as mining, the construction of thermal and hydroelectric dams and poaching.

Animals such as the jaguar risk extinction if we do not act to protect their tropical forest habitat.

Of particular concern are species now much reduced in numbers of individuals and restricted to protected habitat islands, such as national parks, that are surrounded by humandominated landscapes where survival of the affected species is not possible without changing societal norms (Early and Sax, 2011).

Coral reefs provide food and habitat for other species, including a wide range of fish, and protect coastlines from large waves.3 Reefs such as the one in Biscayne National Park — visited by more than 400,000 people in 2009 — also support tourism.4 More than 100 million people worldwide are directly economically dependent on coral reefs, according to estimates.6

Critical habitats aren't protected from logging, although federal agencies are required to consult with the Fish and Wildlife to see if a specific project, such as a timber sale, would jeopardize the recovery of an endangered species.