Sentences with phrase «reducing human disturbance»

The campaign is designed to teach the importance of reducing human disturbance to popular beaches and coasts on which declining shorebird species depend.

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And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

According to Ferraro, protected areas are frequently located on low productivity lands, a characteristic that reduces the likelihood of human disturbance even in the absence of legal protection.