Sentences with phrase «protected areas»

It also has the ability to set up marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, such as one proposed for the Ross Sea.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.

Such wildlife corridors linking up larger but isolated protected areas are the most widely adopted strategy for halting biodiversity decline, with tens of millions of dollars spent creating and protecting them every year.

Last week in response to the scientists» demands, CCAMLR made a small step in banning bottom trawling in two 150 square mile areas, but it has skirted the issue of designating marine protected areas that would make the most sensitive regions off limits to all forms of fishing.

Hemmings says that proposals for Marine Protected Areas in Antarctica are «lost in a sandpit of discussion or whittled away by Russia, Japan, South Korea, and a number of other fishing states.»

Nations with the largest number of «gap species» or species whose range lie entirely outside of protected areas include the U.S., Canada, and Brazil.

However, given that 78 % of wild orangutans live outside of protected areas, it is critical that all of Borneo's remaining forests are either protected or sustainably managed.

So efforts were made to connect protected areas by purchasing and protecting natural corridors that the animals could use to move from one area to another.

For example, the majority of species that were considered very poorly represented (less than two percent of their range found in marine protected areas) are found in exclusive economic zones.

The protected areas of land are comparatively tiny, animals move out of them all the time, and when they do, they are likely to eventually be killed for bushmeat or for poaching.

Only 12 per cent of those threatened grow in protected areas.

Until recently, most efforts to ensure the survival of rare, threatened and endangered species involved creating protected areas for them.

Other data included the cost of acquiring tracts of land, and the location of protected areas.

The study, which is the first comprehensive assessment of protected areas coverage on marine life, appears in the international journal Scientific Reports.

The authors looked at the ranges of some 17,348 species of marine life, including whales, sharks rays and fish, and found that 97.4 percent have less than 10 percent of their range represented in marine protected areas.

Another interesting finding of this study is that mammal populations have also been reduced by hunting even within protected areas.

Moreover, protected areas are sometimes established at a cost to local people, which makes them socially and economically contentious.

All the newly described species are currently known only from single localities in the southern Western Ghats, and some lie outside Protected areas.

«Until now, the focus has mainly been on conserving small parts of a reef in marine protected areas,» said Prof Bellwood,» - we're talking about broader approaches to change the relationship between humans and coral reefs to reduce human impacts across the whole ecosystem.»

We may not be able to prevent bleaching, but we can help conservationists choose marine protected areas more wisely, so that they include coral reefs that might be particularly bleach - resistant.

To assess how well protected areas shelter wildlife from light pollution and preserve natural darkness, researchers analyzed satellite images of Earth collected at night by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program between 1992 and 2010.

More than 170,000 unique protected areas were identified using the International Union for Conservation of Nature's World Database on Protected Areas.

In other countries, such as the USA, strategically placed protected areas have proved successful in protecting vulnerable areas of seabed while boosting the breeding and growth rates of scallops.

Protected areas were still generally darker than unprotected areas, yet protected areas experienced widespread increases in nighttime light exposure between 1992 and 2010, the team reports online this month in Conservation Biology.

In Europe, Asia, and South and Central America, up to 42 % of protected areas have experienced significant increases in nighttime lighting.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

INBio «handled the subject and biodiversity better than any country in the world,» he says that, thanks to INBio, «no other country has developed a national inventory of biodiversity like Costa Rica and no other country has such precise information about the species present in their protected areas.»

Over many years as a ranger, soldier and farmer, he studied the landscape and sought to understand why protected areas in southern Africa continued to deteriorate.

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas.

Dr Bryce Stewart, who supervised the work, added: «Scallop fisheries are ideally suited to management using protected areas.

And despite the challenge posed by the current lack of some formerly abundant species, Gorongosa and protected areas like it may be the only hope of saving what remains of Africa's rapidly dwindling vulture populations.

Both the English and Scottish governments have recently declared networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) around their coasts and are currently deciding on how to manage them.

A smaller percentage of protected areas in Europe (24 %) and North America (17 %) exhibited high levels of nighttime lighting in all years.

Protected areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, are thought to provide a refuge for wildlife, but according to a new study, many of these areas are not safe from light pollution.

But there must be actions taken, including strengthening protected areas, to ensure the protection of South Sudan's natural heritage which is vital for wildlife and communities alike.

Governments plan to increase protected areas from 13 to 17 % of the land surface by 2020.

Obama has softened his stance on drilling in protected areas off the U.S. coasts, which the Bush administration is considering opening up to exploration.

Instead, high winds swept mountaintops clean, and deposited all this collected snow into protected areas, like the hillside called Lia, which is where the avalanche happened.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN asked four speakers from November's World Parks Congress — a meeting held every 10 years by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to discuss issues concerning protected areas — what would be at the top of their to - do lists for the next decade.

In their article, «Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and infrastructure,» Ferraro and Georgia State alumnus Merlin Hanauer, now on the Economics faculty at Sonoma State University, examine three potential causes of poverty reduction linked to the establishment of protected areas:

The goal of the $ 8 million, 8 - year project is to collect baseline data that can be used to assess whether the protected areas are working as intended.

They find that increased tourism accounts for two - thirds of the reduction in poverty caused by protected areas.

Without accelerated decoupling, protected areas can't resist growing human demand for food and energy, and the elephants and gorillas of Virunga may face doom.

Although the country has a target to increase terrestrial protected areas from 13.8 % of total land area in 2015 to 20 % by 2025, economic development has already had an impact on wildlife.

The South Africa — based Peace Parks Foundation, which works to promote jointly managed transborder protected areas around the world, has helped establish several such regions in Africa, including a huge park linking Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.

Carr works on a state - funded project to monitor ecosystems inside and outside marine protected areas on the California coast.

The conference will address issues such as marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the oceans.

A major goal of the project is to create high - resolution digital maps to aid in establishing a statewide network of marine protected areas.

Even in the absence of war, countries often create protected areas along borders, because it makes sense to have uninhabited land in politically sensitive zones.

Over the past 25 years, marine protected areas in the region increased by almost 14 % and terrestrial protected area increased by 0.3 %.