Sentences with phrase «protected habitat on»

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

If nothing else, my career has shown me that the most wholly protected habitats on the planet are now devoid of a good percentage of their native flora and fauna.

Not exact matches

The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

Sediment resources on the OCS are leased to local communities or federal agencies to help them restore shorelines or wetlands in an effort to address chronic erosion, sea level rise, impacts from major storms, or to protect valuable infrastructure and habitat.

We can make sure their habitats are protected, that they are given adequate food and resources to grow and reproduce, that they are not hunted and killed into extinction, and that they are not taken advantage of or overworked as we tame them and train them to work alongside us on earth.

The information collected helps scientists advise local, state, and federal agencies on how to protect and restore these habitats.

With a focus on protecting the most vulnerable species and habitat, Mass Audubon has worked to defend the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act in court and stop its repeal in the legislature.

Mass Audubon submits comments on select land - based wind projects in Massachusetts and at the federal level with a focus on siting, impacts to protected land, habitat, and water resources.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

Wellfleet Bay conducts conservation science research and protects endangered, threatened, and at risk wildlife, including sea turtles, diamondback terrapins, coastal waterbirds, and Atlantic horseshoe crabs throughout the Outer Cape, and protects rare and iconic Cape Cod habitats on its 1,100 acre Sanctuary.

Poloncarz also called on federal leaders to protect the Great Lakes Restoration Program which allowed the county to clean up habitats

This week, in a move that typifies the administration's recent approach, the state appealed an appellate court ruling that Indian Point is grandfathered into the state's Coastal Management Plan, which protects the wildlife habitat and recreational activities on the river.

Late last year, the state lost one of its bargaining chips in the attempt to shut down Indian Point, when an appellate court ruled the plant is grandfathered in under the state's Coastal Management Plan, which protects wildlife habitat as well as recreational activities on the Hudson River.

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.

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.

All those hotels and shops built within the protected areas for the tourists are cutting down on actual forest habitat for the endangered big cats.

Tolson of the Toledo Zoo estimates that 5 to 8 percent of the Cuban iguana population lives on the base, and notes that base regulations protect the iguana, making it an important habitat for the reptile.

We provide evidence that protecting parrotfish populations, and the habitats on which they depend, is likely to be vital to ensuring a continued supply of the sediment from which these Maldivian reef islands are built.»

The scientific models that ecologists and conservation biologists rely on to determine which species and habitats to protect lack critical information to help them make effective decisions, according to a new study.

(Reuters)- Conservation groups on Friday hailed a court decision that blocks Montana from building roads and logging in nearly 37,000 acres of a state forest that serves as core habitat for protected grizzly bears.

«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.

Furthermore, information on the movements of seals can also be used in protecting important seal habitats.

But, when examining how well the protected area established for sage grouse covers other species that depend on sage grouse habitat, it leaves a lot to be desired.»

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.

«Data on blue whales off California helps protect their distant relatives: Research identifies blue whale habitat in the Northern Indian Ocean.»

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

«By quantifying where and to what extent habitats reduce the exposure of vulnerable populations and property, our analyses are, to the best of our knowledge, the first to target where conservation and restoration of coastal habitats are most critical for protecting lives and property on a national scale,» the paper says.

The team is continuing its work on the ecology of the new species and is urging the government to designate its habitat as a «protected area.»

After convening a commission of experts from various disciplines to report on the state of U.S. oceans, his administration took steps to protect 215 million acres of biologically rich deep sea ocean habitat in the Pacific near Hawaii and Guam.

• 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.

The results, published in Ecology Letters, not only offer hope to farmers battling the beetle, but also provide an incentive to protect wildlife habitat: the more forest grew on and near a coffee farm, the more birds the farm had, and the lower its infestation rates were.

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.

In an attempt to settle the potential conflict over valuable land before the bird was put on the endangered list, the various groups of conservationists and developers tried to hammer out an agreement in which enough of the bird's habitat would be set aside to protect the gnatcatcher, while the rest of the land would be given over to development.

It's based on a counterintuitive premise: that fishermen can protect rainforest, nourish the local economy, and promote animal welfare by taking large volumes of wild fish out of their natural habitats to ship them thousands of miles away.

The study, «Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities,» appears Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific Reports.

They have even vowed to stop ongoing government efforts to protect grouse on federal lands, which hold about 65 % of its key remaining habitat.

Bob Pressey: Maximize returns on conservation Douglas J. McCauley: Mega-parks need greater oversight Lance Morgan: Protect diverse marine habitats Hugh Possingham: Represent ecosystems Lee White: Manage parks professionally Emily Darling: Conserve climate refuges Peter J. S. Jones: Assess governance structures

Conservation biology, the team notes, fundamentally depends on good taxonomy, since preserving one widespread species is a radically different task than protecting the precise habitat of a genetically isolated, local species.

The scientists said drilling on the coastal plain would be particularly harmful because it contains a «unique compression» of habitats supporting animals like polar bears, grizzly bears, wolverines, representing «the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area above the Arctic Circle.»

Top on their agenda: new technology that holds the promise of protecting natural water habitats from pollution as well as tech that purifies current water systems better and helps tap into new potential sources of drinking water.

«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.

The study draws on an earlier analysis the lab conducted for the Western Governors» Association to identify areas where renewable resources are the strongest, most consistent, and most concentrated, and where development would avoid protected areas and minimize the overall impact on wildlife habitat.

It will focus on a representative degraded ecosystem surrounded by protected areas and carry out measures to improve habitats as well as to enhance the conservation status of 47 targeted flora and fauna species.

In the film, we meet Dr. Worm, whose work is aimed at better understanding human impacts on ocean life and assessing alternative approaches to protecting ocean habitat and marine species.

Charudutt Mishra, Ph.D.: (Snow Leopard Trust & Nature Conservation Foundation) Conservation biologist working to protect threatened species and habitats throughout Central Asia, with a focus on the charismatic and endangered snow leopard.

Jolie also co-leads the Ocean Noise Strategy, which lays out a comprehensive approach to align NOAA's programs, authorities, and capabilities to better address the impacts of ocean noise on protected species and their habitat.

Land cover maps, which aggregate data on habitats rather than providing information on individual farm locations, are the only kind of maps available in the United States where privacy laws protect precise locations of livestock farms in order to protect the anonymity of farmers.

We evaluate these programs based on how well they protect snow leopard habitat, wild prey species, and the cats themselves.