Sentences with phrase «protecting wilderness areas»

The reason the wilderness bill is being opposed by several special - interest groups is that they realize how poorly protected the wilderness areas are at present and they do not want to see this changed.

In the past decade, he has emerged as one of China's leading conservationists and played a key role in establishing more than 20 protected wilderness areas.

Lapopu is situated in Manupeu Tanah Daru National Park, one of the two main protected wilderness areas on Sumba, and a guided walk is a great way to find out more about the environment and wildlife of the island.

As it turns out, Teddy Roosevelt did more than his share in establishing many protected wilderness areas, which most of us would consider to have already been of help.

By traveling to the world's parks and reserves, you are helping to protect those wilderness areas by contributing to an economy that is in harmony with conservation.

From the toxic sludge, toxic air, water pollution and the haze it belched into protected wilderness areas, this plant had become a huge problem for the state, including its most special places — national parks and wilderness areas.

Not exact matches

No organization has worked harder or had as much success in protecting wild areas as the Wilderness Committee.

«The classification of the Boreas Ponds as Wilderness and the expansion of High Peaks Wilderness Area marks a great day for the Forest Preserve and Adirondack Park,» said Protect the Adirondacks» Executive Director Peter Bauer in a statement.

Full Wilderness advocates also shot down arguments of the permanence of the structures, saying there are already signs that nature is reclaiming them, and that much of the now - protected areas of the Adirondack Park were once shaped by man.

In 63 percent of America's protected places — including parks, monuments and designated wilderness areas — sounds made by human activity are doubling the volume of background noise.

But regulators have largely ignored noise in parks, wilderness, and other protected areas, which cover 14 % of the country.

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.

Green groups fear that once mining starts near the Grand Canyon, similar destructive plans will also get the green light in and around other protected areas, including Arches National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Canyonlands National Park and the proposed Dolores River Canyon wilderness area.

EPA is also proposing a separate «secondary» standard aimed at protecting vegetation and ecosystems, including parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.

«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 thWilderness 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 thwilderness in global World Heritage sites currently protected, but many opportunities to increase this.»

That would seem to leave 62 percent on the table for expanded human consumption but the vast majority of this biomass appears to be not harvestable because it includes root growth below ground and biomass production on lands in parks or wilderness areas that are either protected or inaccessible.

In the wild, canids have been known to cover massive areas of rough terrain and inhospitable wilderness without ever needing 2 pairs of shoes to protect their paws.

Wilderness areas are the most intact, undisturbed, truly wild spaces left on the planet... They are unaffected by any development and many, if not all of them, practice the highest level of conservation — legally protected and untouched by man.

With your purchase you will also help to protect and manage the vast wilderness areas, the home of the grizzly bears.

This protected offshore wilderness — known as the «Galapagos of the Pacific» - attracts whales, dolphins, sea lions and other ocean creatures specific to the area.

Travel to Yala National Park Discover the spectacular wilderness of Yala National Park, the core of a contiguous system of nine connected protected areas, and home to much of Sri...

The park was established in 1992 to protect one of the last wilderness areas left in the world.

It is a protected area where the wilderness has been preserved.

Developed as a component of the Clean Air Act, the Regional Haze Rule is meant to protect 156 national parks and wilderness areas — including Utah's «Mighty Five» national parks — from visibility - impairing haze.

A movement based on the above principles could protect millions of acres of wilderness more stringently than could any congressional act, could insure the propagation of the Grizzly and other threatened life forms better than could an army of game wardens, and could lead to the retreat of industrial civilization from large areas of forest, mountain, desert, prairie, seashore, swamp, tundra, and woodland that are better suited to the maintenance of native diversity than to the production of raw materials for over consumptive technological human society.

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

Along with 315 square miles of newly protected Wilderness, the legislation also: protected 90 miles of Wild & Scenic rivers, saved approximately 7 million trees, and safeguarded 240 miles of trail in newly designated areas.

Browns Canyon National Monument, including the Wilderness Study Area, helps produce clean water by protecting watersheds, provides critical wildlife habitat, maintains biological diversity, offers outdoor recreation opportunities, provides scenic beauty and serves as a spiritual or psychological haven from modern day pressures.

Now Secretary of the Interior, Salazar submits a short list of «crown jewels» areas to Congress, suggesting that these areas deserve congressional action to protect them as wilderness.

The Service will soon decide whether to designate a huge chunk of the coastal plain as a «Wilderness Area» that would be permanently protected from oil drilling.

And, as Roosevelt knew and Bush seems to have remembered, there's an intrinsic value to protecting vast areas of wilderness even if most people never encounter them.