Sentences with phrase «protected areas increased»

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

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To protect its place in the grocery market, Kroger has ramped up its lower price organic food, a move that has come in the wake of Walmart aggressively increasing its natural foods selection and re-setting the fresh food areas at hundreds of stores, moves that have boosted comparable sales at a retailer that gets 56 % of sales from its grocery business.

Protect Canada's rich natural heritage by unveiling a new National Conservation Plan to further increase protected areas, focusing on stronger marine and coastal conservation;

I continue to expect that we will gradually increase our exposure to inflation - protected securities and commodities on substantial weakness in these areas, but as inflation pressures are most likely still several years away, our primary concern here is with fresh credit weakness, and that concern still translates into a moderate exposure to interest rate fluctuations.

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Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and Senator Kenneth P. LaValle introduced state legislation last Thursday that would require the Long Island Power Authority's board of trustees «to protect the economic interests of its ratepayers and the service area» when proposing rate increases.

Also, GENDA supporters yesterday released a letter to the Senate leaders from NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, who noted that the New York City Human Rights Law was amended by Local Law 3 in 2002 to protect against bias in areas including public accommodations and no there was no «significant increase» in crime as a result of that change.

«As the Iranian attack on the Westchester dam shows, a particularly neglected area is critical infrastructure — dams and power grids — and we must increase our focus on protecting them.»

Locals in the French Frigate Shoals, a group of islands that are part of the protected area, have noticed a steep increase in shark predation, says Gerber.

«If the level of funding for Africa's protected areas can be increased,» Lindsey says, «there's no reason why the existing protected areas couldn't carry a lot more lions.»

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.

If market diversification, social class differentiation, and income inequality continue to increase in many areas affected by marine protected areas and other conservation policies, anti-social behaviors could start to dominate and inhibit pro-social behaviors, the researchers said.

The DRC has proposed measures to preserve its forests under the U.N. - based Reducing Emissions From Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) system, including a suggestion to increase its area of protected land from 10 percent of the country to 15 percent.

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.

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

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

Samples were taken from a sun - protected area of skin to determine if there was a difference in activity with increasing age.

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

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 ConservationProtected 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 Conservationprotected areas experienced widespread increases in nighttime light exposure between 1992 and 2010, the team reports online this month in Conservation Biology.

Longer, hotter fire seasons where extreme fire behavior has become the new norm, as well as increased development in forested areas, is dramatically driving up the cost of fighting fires and squeezing funding for the very efforts that would protect watersheds and restore forests to make them more resilient to fire.

• 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.

Despite some local successes and increasing responses (including extent and biodiversity coverage of protected areas, sustainable forest management, policy responses to invasive alien species, and biodiversity - related aid), the rate of biodiversity loss does not appear to be slowing.

«Most protected areas in the United States are experiencing increased background noise,» Kleist notes, making this «potentially a widespread issue.»

Despite global commitments to increase the number of protected areas, less than 3 % of the world's oceans are now protected within an MPA.

«Our findings clearly demonstrate that if future protected area expansion continues in a «business - as - usual» fashion, threatened species coverage will increase only marginally,» said Associate Professor James Watson, WCS's Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and senior author on the study.

Aichi Target 11 calls for increasing by 2020 terrestrial protected areas to 17 percent on land and 10 percent in marine environments.

The 193 national signatories of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) made a global commitment in 2010 to increase the world's terrestrial protected area network from 13 to 17 percent by the year 2020.

Increasing efforts on the northern coasts of the islands and expanding marine - protected areas north to where the penguins are now feeding and breeding could support population growth, the study's authors said.

«We can use the models of expanding ice - free areas to help identify sites for protected areas, or pinpoint where we need to increase biosecurity,» Dr Fuller said.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

The WWF said it will work with the government of Nepal and local communities in a 9,000 square mile (93,310 square km) region that includes protected areas for tigers, rhinos and elephants in order to stop poaching, increase breeding and to monitor the tiger population.

For example, there's been a 14 % increase in the proportion of the population with access to safe drinking water, and the number of protected areas is increasing.

The result is a huge increase in tidal range in less - protected areas.

The numbers of large carnivores, especially leopards, are increasing in private lands and lands outside the protected - area systems in India, bringing new challenges for coexistence.

The analysis, which includes decisions made between 2002 and 2007, shows that the agency was much more likely to ignore expert advice to increase protected areas.

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

«Wilderness areas are being destroyed but the World Heritage Convention can protect them: Only 1.8 percent of wilderness in global World Heritage sites currently protected, but many opportunities to increase this.»

Researchers found that noise pollution was twice as high as background sound levels in a majority of U.S. protected areas, and caused a ten-fold or greater increase in noise pollution in 21 percent of protected areas.

Major objectives include national - level accounting of carbon stocks and emissions from blue carbon ecosystems, increased management effectiveness of blue carbon ecosystems within protected areas, and the development of blue carbon offsets for tourism activities.

A comprehensive study of biodiversity indicators over the past decade [116] reveals that, despite some local success in increasing extent of protected areas, overall indicators of pressures on biodiversity including that due to climate change are continuing to increase and indicators of the state of biodiversity are continuing to decline.

Coconut oil protects tropical populations from bacteria and fungus so prevalent in their food supply; as third - world nations in tropical areas have switched to polyunsaturated vegetable oils, the incidence of intestinal disorders and immune deficiency diseases has increased dramatically.

While swelling allows important healing components such as white blood cells and other chemicals involved in the healing process to migrate into damaged tissues through increased vascular permeability, and also physically protects an injured area through decreasing it's potential range of motion, there is no physiological reason to allow swelling to freely progress for hours or days after an injury occurs.

To protect your skin from sun damage, apart from slathering sunscreen on your face and exposed areas of your body, you should eat foods that help in increasing the resistance of your skin -LSB-...]

Staying out of this grey area should greatly increase your energy levels, protect your muscle (I'll explain why in a minute), and should allow you to bust through your body composition plateaus.

These worksheets have the students research some of the unique flora and fauna which is found Lake Baikal and discusses the best stratagies to help protect these from the increasing number of visitors to the area.

Instead, it's a ruggedized wagon thanks to a higher ride height and an increased amount of plastic cladding on the body to protect critical areas from debris coming off the wheels.

Personally, I don't think it is a help overall; by making a sharp distinction between areas that the government will protect, and those it won't, it increases the total panic level — better they should not guarantee anything.

The primary purpose of the option is to protect the policyholder against sudden increases in materials or construction costs, which can occur when many claims in an area are made.

Would like the option of increasing the protected area later.

This legislation will increase the number of veterinarians able to serve in the areas where they are needed most, which will help strengthen rural economies and protect the safety of our food supply.»