Sentences with phrase «restore natural habitats»

Given the choice, I'd much rather see my tax dollars go to help these individuals rebuild wisely, then restore natural habitats, then finally redirect the people to a family planning course encouraging a big zero population growth.

From big bluestem, blackeyed susan, Indian grass, switch grass, and much more the Arlington Heights Park District continues to restore natural habitats.

We had three different purposes: to learn about local cultures, to explore nature and the ecology of the area, and to participate in service projects that restore the natural habitat.

Now it begins a new era, one that will burnish Fort Baker's stalwart legacy by preserving landmark historic buildings, restoring natural habitat, protecting the environment, and ensuring access to a revitalized national park for generations to come.

The Conservation Ecology Centre (with its social enterprise, the Great Ocean Ecolodge) is delighted to be a finalist in this exciting event, recognized for ``... outstanding support for the preservation of nature, restoring natural habitat and protecting rare and endangered species...».

Not exact matches

Alliance aims to protect natural water, restore wildlife habitats and reintroduce native plants and trees

Stefanie Covino, Coordinator of the Shaping the Future of Your Community program notes, «Our water resources are increasingly stressed, but conserving and restoring the natural landscape with native plants can offer social, environmental, and economic benefits such as improved air quality, property values, energy savings, and habitat — both locally and downstream.»

This will be followed by a breakfast workshop at Broadmoor, hosted by Mass Audubon, illustrating how natural green infrastructure can preserve and restore water quality and habitat through good planning, conservation design, and LID.

Some examples include restoring funding for the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, restoration of streams and habitat, and successful passage of the 2002, 2009, and 2014 Environmental Bonds, which provide funding for state land protection and other environmental programs.

This includes restoring natural systems, minimizing stressors such as invasive species and residential development, increasing habitat diversity, and connecting protected landscapes.

«Protecting and restoring this critical waterway, which has suffered from pollution and overdevelopment over so many years, is so important to improving our area's water quality, restoring our area's natural habitats, and improving Long Islanders» quality of life.»

The Department of Environmental Conservation has unveiled several projects to create recreational opportunities and restore Onondaga Lake's natural habitats and water quality.

On the other hand, dam decommissioning converts reservoirs back to fast - flowing rivers, restoring river species to their natural habitats over the long run.

The group bought the land in order to restore it to its natural habitat, prairie wetlands.

The students are excited to see their fish released back into their natural habitat and hope that by restoring life back into the river, they will continue to provide food for those who fish.

Why do mentally - unbalanced and psychotic cat - advocates always presume that if someone is removing a highly destructive, deadly disease spreading, human - engineered invasive - species from the native habitat to restore it back into natural balance that they must hate that organism?

We have an extensive land reclamation program where we restore all our cat litter mines to their natural habitat.

2009 Accomplishments • Restored a 1.4 - acre area adjacent to the existing tidal lagoon to a native brackish wetland • Expanded the tidal lagoon to improve coho salmon and steelhead trout habitat • Created an emergent wetland for California red - legged frog breeding habitat • Reconfigured the southern end of the parking lot to increase natural creek function and reduce flooding

Or discover the more natural sides of town by trying horseback riding in the 354 - acre Huntington Central Park, or by hiking and bird watching in Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, a restored wetlands and one of Southern California's most vital coastal habitats.

About Blog Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.

The land is being restored as closely as possible to the natural habitat of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

in autumn they will make way for restoring the natural beach habitat and vegetation in one of new york city's most unique inner city nature reserves directly on the atlantic ocean.

With its partners at the National Park Service and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, JBRPC works to expand public access; increase recreational and educational opportunities; foster citizen stewardship and volunteerism; preserve and restore natural areas, including wetland and wildlife habitat; enhance cultural resources; and ensure the long - term sustainability of the parklands, including the development of the Science and Resilience Institute.

Audubon's mission for more than 100 years has been to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity.

unless you want to do away with humans — or restore them to their «natural habitat», wherever that is — it seems a stretch not to accept that they're inevitably going to carry other invasive species with them, wherever on the planet they wander.

These include planting trees, restoring degraded land, conserving natural habitats, and improving soil and fertility management.

These include a range of already existing, low - tech, and proven practices: composting, no - till farming, climate - friendly livestock practices, conserving natural habitat, restoring degraded watersheds and rangelands, increasing biodiversity, and producing local food.

It's estimated, for instance, that building up natural habitats to effectively restore bee health globally would cost about $ 75 billion each year (that's less than 20 percent of what the world spends on soft drinks), saving the world an estimated $ 2 to $ 6.6 trillion annually in losses from deteriorating ecosystems.

Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning policy and other measures to create high quality landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to climate change.

be decontaminated, improved and reclaimed by planting suitable species to enhance its natural biodiversity, or by restoring habitat «corridors» to allow animals to access wider territories and maintain genetic diversity.

The EBC is a registered charity whose mission is to maintain, enhance or restore areas of native species or natural habitat, and to encourage and support scientific research and educational services related thereto.

-- Preserve natural capital: Restore damaged ecosystems, halt the loss of priority habitats, significantly expand protected areas.

Coastline, beaches, and other natural habitats were soaked in oil (as well as bombarded by chemical dispersants), and the efforts that will inevitably be necessary to attempt to restore them will be expensive indeed.

About Blog Audubon's mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and...