Sentences with phrase «remaining wilderness areas»

Roho ya Selous will open in the Selous reserve, one of the largest remaining wilderness areas in Africa, known for its varied landscape of grasslands and water ways.

One of Africa's last remaining wilderness areas is in good shape and could potentially support 50,000 elephants and 1000 lions, a University of Queensland - led study has found.

Meadows fears this could be construed to allow road building, timber cutting, mining, oil and gas drilling and other development in our remaining wilderness areas.

He is especially fascinated with the world's great remaining wilderness areas and biodiversity hot spots, especially those with rich indigenous cultures such as Mongolia, Bhutan, Gabon, and Madagascar.

The middle islet and most of the western islet remain a wilderness area set aside for nesting seabirds, like the endangered California Brown Pelican.

Not exact matches

The results suggest that, in regions where relatively large, intact wilderness areas remain (for example, Africa, Australia and South America), conservation of the remaining large - scale refugia is the priority.

Even today the Kimberley remains as one of the world's truly unique wilderness areas — a wild and beautiful panorama of rugged mountain ranges, spectacular gorges and majestic waterfalls.

Translating this principle to a «grand social scale» or «global scale,» humanity should stop sprawl development and do everything possible to preserve and expand the world's bioregions and the few remaining areas of true wilderness.

The great diversity of vegetation and topography in this compact area, together with its relatively undisturbed condition, led to its selection as... one of our remaining wildlife and wilderness frontiers.»

Even if remote areas are spared, millions of acres of «near wilderness» on the outskirts of cities must remain intact to avoid a world that feels completely urbanized.

Historically, the Frank Church / River of No Return Wilderness was a refuge for spawning salmon but today this area remains blocked by three downstream dams.

The Long Beach area near Pacific Rim National Park is a pristine coastline on Vancouver Island's west coast and one of the world's last remaining unspoiled wilderness areas and ecosystems.