Sentences with phrase «to protect ecosystems»

You may opt to participate in an underwater experience that allows you to help protect an ecosystem and to dine on your own catch that evening.

This report offers suggestions for ocean conservation that should be considered in protecting ecosystem services: how our oceans function and what they offer us.

Are we going to protect these ecosystems well enough to learn what those stories are?

After a few years, I decided to shift my career to conservation, where I saw the chance to make a difference proactively protecting ecosystems at a larger scale.

Forty years of research show that organic farming can yield enough food to feed a growing population while protecting the ecosystems we depend on.

This iconic protected ecosystem has environmental sustainability at the core of its mission.

By going digital, we can use less paper and help protect our ecosystem.

«Herbivores help protect ecosystems from climate change.»

Project partners developed a strategy for the sustainable prevention of planthopper outbreaks in Asia by protecting ecosystem services using ecological engineering tools.

Today we might add a fourth: ecological viability, in the double sense of reducing consumption of nonrenewable resources and protecting the ecosystem against disastrous pollution.

«Study participants noted that exploring the underwater environment and seeing eelgrass ecosystems helped convey the significance of efforts for protecting these ecosystems.»

Stunning coastline vistas and an amazing diversity of protected ecosystems make the Mexican Riviera Maya one of the hottest sightseeing destinations on the planet.

Each and every day seven billion of us hope to feed ourselves, slake our thirst, and wrest our energy needs from the Earth, even as we strive to protect the ecosystem services on which we depend and build resilience to Earth's hazards.

IUCN's members adopted more than 100 resolutions and set a course heavy on protecting ecosystems in a world guided by the first global agreement on climate change.

«We want variety because we found it helps protect the ecosystem when you add a stressor like heat.»

«That means we can provide specific guidance on how to tailor restoration efforts to maximize its removal and protect ecosystems downstream.»

More than 85 percent of the forest elephant ivory seized between 2006 and 2014 was traced to the central African Tridom protected ecosystem that spans northeastern Gabon, northwestern Republic of Congo and southeastern Cameroon, and the adjacent reserve in southwestern Central African Republic.

The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), a Yale - based initiative that evaluates how 180 countries protect ecosystems and human health, finds cause for both optimism and serious concern.

These are known to be major spawning grounds for commercial cod, haddock, saithe and herring fisheries, and protecting the ecosystem there is important.

the code protects the ecosystem, with special emphasis on marine life species such as the Mola Mola and Manta Rays.

Announced today, three newly proposed marine monuments in the Pacific Ocean would create protected ecosystems nearly 50 % larger than all US National Parks combined.

By recognizing the rights of nature, Pittsburgh is effectively protecting ecosystems and natural communities within the city from efforts by corporations to drill there — and by other levels of government to authorize that drilling.

Apple is certainly protecting its ecosystem, but researchers agree it's also protecting system integrity.

«The hopeful message here is that, to some degree, zooplankton can evolve a higher tolerance to salt than is found in pristine wetlands and lakes and, in turn, help protect these ecosystems from the impacts of salt.»

Ensure environmental sustainability, by promoting clean energy and sustainable use of land and resources in urban development; by protecting ecosystems and biodiversity, including adopting healthy lifestyles in harmony with nature; by promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns; by building urban resilience, by reducing disaster risks; and by mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Stunning coastline views and an amazing diversity of protected ecosystems make the Mexican Riviera one of the hottest sightseeing destinations on the planet.

He sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon.

«Farmers should get compensated for protecting the ecosystem,» Lal says.

Establishing reserves and queen - rearing apiaries could allow environmentally aware beekeepers to find native bees, and would play an important part in protecting our ecosystem.

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Resource Management The Forest Service manages National Forest System lands to provide goods and services while protecting ecosystems of the forest.

Biological reserves and ecological corridors have been either implemented or planned for the maintenance of biodiversity in natural ecosystems, and these can serve as adaptation measures to help protect ecosystems in the face of climate change.

My company, Women Rocking Business, has raised over half a million dollars for women around the globe, women in the rainforest and in Indonesia, supporting them to build businesses that serve their communities and protect our ecosystems, this is something I'm deeply proud of.

«While we're not prepared to talk specific strategy, Motorola having that kind of patent portfolio to protect the ecosystem is a good thing.»

Policies identified by the government to protect ecosystems may fail due to a lack of expertise and knowledge, report warns

Protecting an ecosystem of freedom is important — not carving up these freedoms.

With 90 percent of the world's forests outside of protected areas, the Rainforest Alliance works to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that depend on them by transforming land - use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.

The UN works on many water entities such as distributing drinking water during disasters, protecting ecosystems, making sure that water is of sufficient quality, ensuring that our cities have enough water infrastructure, measuring progress of access to sanitation, looking at how we will have enough water to make food.

For example, forest preserve districts in Cook and DuPage Counties, which cull deer herds as a way to protect the ecosystem, donate the meat to the needy as well.

The leader of the June 4 1979 uprising was particularly critical about the wanton felling of trees, which had been planted over time to protect our ecosystem and wondered why the relevant authorities have looked on unconcerned or given the go ahead for such abuse.

Plaintiff Desiree Dawley, of Casino Free Tyre, a group that aims to preserve the rural character of the town and protect the ecosystem, said, «The decision provides further confirmation that at every turn, the Tyre Town Board failed to meet its most basic obligations before signing off on the largest development project in our county's history.»

To protect the ecosystem and the livelihood of area residents, it is important to assess how climate variability and change will affect Chesapeake Bay's shallow water ecosystems and water quality.

«But the conservation benefits to protect these ecosystems is very high indeed; there is a lot of value in improving this.»

It could be argued that protecting the ecosystem will suffice to protect its microbes.

In order to protect these ecosystems, one needs to know which organisms live in them.