Sentences with phrase «protect large territories»
They also established groups of warriors to protect large territories and conquer new land.
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After 25 years of negotiations, the federal government, four provinces and two territories finally agreed to protect the world's third largest watershed in 1997.
When the smaller mouse is placed into the home cage of the larger mouse, the larger mouse instinctively acts to protect its territory.
In recent years, biologists have argued that the best way to save species that need large territories, such as the endangered jaguar, is to connect existing parks and other large environmental reserves with protected corridors that would allow the animals to move back and forth.
But since Santa Cruz is the largest of all the Channel Islands, measuring 96 square miles by 20 miles, that park - protected 25 percent covers a whole lot of territory.
But since Santa Cruz is the largest of all the Channel Islands, measuring 96 square miles / 248 square km and 20 miles / 32 kms long, that park - protected 25 percent covers a whole lot of territory.
The researchers make the point that protected areas and indigenous territories now cover about half of the Amazon basin, and they calculate that these must, for the moment, protect large populations of most of the threatened species.