Sentences with phrase «protected habitat»

Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), declined to place the Greater Sage Grouse on the Endangered Species list, stating that unprecedented cooperative, voluntary, conservation actions by advocates, state governments and the private sector had sufficiently increased the bird's population and protected its habitat.

This week Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), declined to place the Greater Sage Grouse on the Endangered Species list, stating that unprecedented cooperative, voluntary, conservation actions by advocates, state governments and the private sector had sufficiently increased the bird's population and protected its 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).

The Cayman Turtle Farm is the protected habitat of thousands of green sea turtles, an endangered species.

The Park offers protected habitat for an amazing array of marine wildlife and provides an ideal location to explore and recreate.

Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary — Perfect for day trips or longer hiking expeditions, the sanctuary provides a protected habitat for tapirs, monkeys, jaguars and hundreds of species of birds.

Seabirds soared overhead, drawn to the rich sea life in Buccoo Reef, a protected habitat where star coral, elkhorn coral and brain coral thrive.

This area is a protected habitat for birds and has a viewing point.

The islands offer protected habitat in an increasingly disturbed southern California environment.

This chain of unspoiled islands, some less than an hour's boat ride away, is home to plants and animals so unique that their protected habitat has earned the nickname «Galapagos of North America.»

World - class birding opportunities abound in Tofino and the protected habitat of Clayoquot Sound.

This one - of - a-kind, protected habitat for man and beast is known as the «Alligator Capital of the World.»

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.

Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed designating a vast area — more than 906,000 square kilometers — off Alaska as protected habitat for the seals.

But Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana, a former businessman, has publicly committed himself to tripling the area of protected habitat on the island.

As residents of a well - managed national park, these lemurs enjoy a protected habitat, and Malagasy culture forbids the killing of their kind.

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.

[1] An employee of Devil Ark, a protected habitat and breeding facility that houses about 130 healthy devils, cradles a resident.

«By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere.»

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.

In March 2006, I posted about the Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign, a Seattle Audubon Society project whose mission is «to protect habitat for wintering neo-tropical migratory birds in Latin America and the Caribbean by increasing consumer demand for shade - grown coffee,»...

In 2015, as a project of the Fund, Wachusett Meadow installed the Dianne Engelhardt Discovery Trek, a self - guided activity that directs children and families to sites along the sanctuary's trails where they learn about the many animals and plants that thrive in the diverse protected habitats.

The dredging and renourishment project proposed by our two organizations will restore and protect habitat for coastal birds.

A truck hauls timber near Noh - Bec, Mexico, where conservationists hope sustainable logging can provide jobs, protect habitat and keep carbon from the atmosphere.

In Mexico, conservationists hope sustainable logging can provide jobs, protect the habitat and keep carbon from the atmosphere.

As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat.

If we can preserve those areas we have got a triple bottom line, because it's going to be good for humans by stabilizing the climate, it's going to be good for the wildlife because we are protecting their habitat and it's going to be good for economic growth in the long - term because it's going to be sustaining human populations locally.

One way to promote diversity is by aggressively protecting habitat, rather than focusing on the stocks that seem to be doing well at the moment.

«The reclassification is a major milestone for swift parrots and highlights the importance of finding a solution to the extreme effects of sugar glider predation, and of protecting their habitat,» Dr Stojanovic said.

This message from the past highlights the need to protect habitat refugia, since it is these stable regions, associated with corridors favorable to recolonization, that ensure the large - scale preservation of biodiversity.

«Herbivores play important role in protecting habitats from invasive species.»

«There may be ways in which the Endangered Species Act could be changed to make it more effective, so we could spend more money to protect habitat and species — is there a better way of doing what the Endangered Species Act is supposed to do?»

«Research on Whooping Crane habitat use throughout the migration corridor is crucial in helping us ensure that we are restoring and protecting habitat for a growing population of Whooping Cranes in the right places,» states Wade Harrell, the U.S. and Wildlife Service's Whooping Crane Recovery Coordinator.

«If we save it we pass the test because in protecting its habitat we will save so many other species from extinction as well.»

And for aquatic species, whose threats often come from activities taking place on land far from where they live, land use management may prove just as important as protecting their habitat.

The maps might show that current conservation efforts have failed, given that global species - saving efforts have grown as have the extent of protected habitats, although IUCN's Stuart rejects that claim.

Rainey urges consumers to support conservation efforts and make sure any rain forest wood they purchase has Forest Stewardship Council certification, which ensures that the wood comes from logging conducted in a way that protects habitat.

It also calls for creating «marine conservation zones» and would «pioneer a new system of conservation credits to protect habitats and create incentives to invest in wildlife.»

«The key to conserving these species is to protect their habitats.

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.

This research was designed to help managers protect habitats and supervise land use.

«We can't simply protect habitat and stop the decline — we're losing species even from protected habitats,» says Vredenburg.

When it comes to reefs, designating reef environments as marine protected areas (MPAs)-- and enforcing that designation — is essential to protecting habitat.

It has generated almost $ 1 million in total sales, and helps protect habitats that could be home to hundreds of snow leopards.

This entry in the Protecting Food Chains series opens with an explanation of food chains and how they create a larger food web and the importance of protecting the habitat and its wildlife.

We work in all 50 states and more than 30 countries - protecting habitats from grasslands to coral reefs, from Australia to Alaska to Zambia.

And fleas thrive in shady, protected habitats.

And flea eggs that drop in shady, protected habitats will thrive.