Sentences with phrase «to protect habitat»

It will also help combat climate change, protect habitats for 75 % of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and maintain ecosystem resilience, thereby supporting a (more) sustainable agriculture.

If nothing else, my career has shown me that the most wholly protected habitats on the planet are now devoid of a good percentage of their native flora and fauna.

One way to promote diversity is by aggressively protecting habitat, rather than focusing on the stocks that seem to be doing well at the moment.

This research was designed to help managers protect habitats and supervise land use.

Solar farms typically take up less than 5 % of the land they are on so there is a huge opportunity to develop protected habitats to support local wildlife and plant life.

The researchers identified several criteria for choosing umbrella species — such as big carnivores, most long - lived, habitat specialists, and ones on the verge of extinction — and analyzed how many imperiled species might be saved by protecting the habitat of that type of umbrella species, compared to species saved by randomly picking a set of species to serve as the umbrella.

«Herbivores play important role in protecting habitats from invasive species.»

For many, many people still deny anthropogenic climate change, still oppose protecting habitat from oil development, still consume resources and spew pollutants back out.

UK farmers are amongst the best in the world at producing food while protecting habitats and wildlife — and that's no surprise.

Recent Michigan State University (MSU) work shows China's decades of defending panda turf have been good not just for the beloved bears, but also protects habitat for other valuable plants and animals, boosts biodiversity and fights climate change.

Though it wasn't an attempt to save the unnamed man and to simply protect its habitat, once the opportunity is seen, the man takes it and runs once again before he could become the next target.

The Park offers protected habitat for an amazing array of marine wildlife and provides an ideal location to explore and recreate.

Developers reported their project areas protected habitat for dozens of endangered species, including charismatic mega-fauna such as orangutans, koalas, African elephants, cheetahs, jaguars, giant armadillos, and bonobos.

Life on land: This forest conservation project protects habitats for an irreplaceable wealth of animal and plant species, many of which are threatened by extinction.

It has generated almost $ 1 million in total sales, and helps protect habitats that could be home to hundreds of snow leopards.

This will mean that Commonwealth environmental water will be used to protect habitat such as permanent waterholes that support the survival of water dependent populations of native plants and animal life,» he said.

In 2015, as a project of the Fund, Wachusett Meadow installed the Dianne Engelhardt Discovery Trek, a self - guided activity that directs children and families to sites along the sanctuary's trails where they learn about the many animals and plants that thrive in the diverse protected habitats.

This message from the past highlights the need to protect habitat refugia, since it is these stable regions, associated with corridors favorable to recolonization, that ensure the large - scale preservation of biodiversity.

Last week the beach the Maleos use to nest became protected habitat.

The umbrella species concept is one surrogate species strategy in which a species with large area requirements — such as the greater sage grouse — is provided sufficient protected habitat.

They've also established nature reserves specifically to protect habitat suitable for pandas.

Although MPAs can work well at protecting habitats like coral reefs and nonmigratory wildlife such as the coconut crab, the authors say that more effort needs to be made to protect migratory species such as the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle from poachers, marine debris, and fishing gear entanglement.

Wilderness designation protects the habitat for plants such as white spruce, sphagnum moss, bog blueberry and Kamchatka rhododendron; animals such as the brown bear, lynx, caribou, moose, wolverine, wolf, sea lions, salmon; and hundreds of species of birds such as bald eagles, Arctic terns, tundra swans, spruce grouse, and loons.

Land managers have realized that static protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.

Support protecting habitat in Richardson's Bay and sustainable fisheries at the Sausalito Herring festival.

Earthjustice's vision for sustaining wildlife involves protecting habitat and at - risk species to ensure biodiversity and rebuild connections in ecosystems — so that wildlife have freedom to roam in a warming world.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

After searching for historical and geographic loss patterns in the data, they concluded that over 3000 sq km of living coral reef had been lost each year and, more worryingly, that the rate of destruction was as rapid in protected habitats as it was in hard - hit areas like Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Last but not least, the parrots must unite to protect their habitat from deforesting humans.

Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed designating a vast area — more than 906,000 square kilometers — off Alaska as protected habitat for the seals.

The Coastal Conservancy's funds have employed two full - time Golden Gate Trail Crews to begin the transformation of criss - crossed and eroded social trails into sustainable trails that preserve access while protecting habitat.

also protecting habitats in Madagascar Add publicly sparring with Apple online over which company is doing more to help the environment, and Dell comes away looking like a strong fighter in the race to become the world's greenest computer company.

But Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana, a former businessman, has publicly committed himself to tripling the area of protected habitat on the island.

The islands offer protected habitat in an increasingly disturbed southern California environment.

The Ngamba Chimp Sanctuary provides 98 acres of protected habitat for 42 chimps who were orphaned and in many cases terribly abused by human beings.

«By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere.»

It means taking action to protect habitat for B.C.'s wildlife.

In March 2006, I posted about the Northwest Shade Coffee Campaign, a Seattle Audubon Society project whose mission is «to protect habitat for wintering neo-tropical migratory birds in Latin America and the Caribbean by increasing consumer demand for shade - grown coffee,»...

The dredging and renourishment project proposed by our two organizations will restore and protect habitat for coastal birds.

Reminder: there is no climbing on the dunes allowed, they are protected habitats.

A truck hauls timber near Noh - Bec, Mexico, where conservationists hope sustainable logging can provide jobs, protect habitat and keep carbon from the atmosphere.

In Mexico, conservationists hope sustainable logging can provide jobs, protect the habitat and keep carbon from the atmosphere.

As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as «living shorelines,» natural or nature - based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat.

For now, the most effective way to combat this new disease threat is through traditional carnivore conservation approaches; reducing hunting and protecting habitat.

[1] An employee of Devil Ark, a protected habitat and breeding facility that houses about 130 healthy devils, cradles a resident.

«The reclassification is a major milestone for swift parrots and highlights the importance of finding a solution to the extreme effects of sugar glider predation, and of protecting their habitat,» Dr Stojanovic said.