Sentences with phrase «wildlife habitat project»

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Throughout the school year and during the summer, students practice science skills through the study of local habitats, learn about Massachusetts» native wildlife, work as a team to plan and execute stewardship projects that benefit their school and the larger Lowell community, and participate in community - based events.

The transformation of Tidmarsh Farms from a working cranberry farm to a biodiverse habitat — and eventually a protected wildlife sanctuary — is the result of many passionate individuals who have put their hearts and souls into the project.

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

The project would include more than 980,000 acres of «bridge habitat,» or connections from one «clump» to another, said Sarah Reif, a wildlife biologist with Arizona Fish and Game.

Ensure that industry, mining, infrastructure, and rural development programs and projects are fully sensitive to the conservation needs of snow leopards and their ecosystems, do not adversely affect or fragment key populations or critical habitats, and employ wildlife - friendly design, offsets, and other mitigation tools.

Its partner charity, the SEA LIFE Trust, develops and supports projects to protect ocean wildlife and habitats across the world.

Using our exclusive EKOgrown ™ tree - growing process, the projects contribute to flow and wind damage reduction, improving and restoring wildlife and fish habitat.

During my workshops at the conference, I listened to teachers brainstorm project ideas about everything from reducing road congestion to turning schoolyards into wildlife habitats to celebrating the literary legacy of Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.

Project Wildlife is licensed to care only for sick, injured, or abandoned wildlife; healthy animals must be returned to their natural habitat — even if that's your backyard.

The project also works hard to educate the local community about the conservation of their local wildlife and habitat and you can support this area of the centre's work too.

Muir Beach: Habitat Restoration Improve vital habitat for the coho salmon and other wildlife through planting and weeding projects.

Cuilcagh Mountain Park was founded in 1998 with assistance from the European Union's LIFE Peatlands Project and the Heritage Lottery Fund, to restore damaged peatland, to conserve pristine blanket bog and to increase awareness of bogland habitats and wildlife.

Learn more about the project, and some of the plants — grown by the Marin Headlands Nursery — that will help restore wildlife habitat.

Conservation projects address topics of current importance such as developing an understanding of biodiversity and wildlife habitat needs, the contributions of sustainably managed forests to water quality, and quantifying the value of these forests toward mitigating climate change.

In its news release, the company said the money will be spent to create, restore, improve and protect wildlife habitat along the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and will go to projects beyond the cleanups and wildlife rescues that BP is already paying for or has pledged to undertake.

To address wildlife concerns, ACCIONA conducted environmental impact studies on birds, bats, and wetland habitat, which were shared during an extensive county permitting and review process during the project development phase.

Based on a methodology developed in a previous study that estimated wood supply on four National Forests in northern Arizona [33], we subtracted from the total area of ponderosa pine in the watersheds — 0.68 million ha (1.68 million acres)-- those areas that are typically excluded from mechanical thinning projects due to steepness, restrictions in land management, previous treatments, or considerations of soil, habitat, or wildlife conditions (Table 1).

«A better understanding of how tree diversity affects carbon storage will be useful for developing guidelines to design carbon projects that store high amounts of carbon and have additional benefits such as providing more habitat for wildlife.»

These projects would have destroyed the corridor's wildlife habitat, threaten the local water supply, and limit public beach access while ignoring the reality that other similar developments in Puerto Rico had failed to bring the economic opportunities that had been promised.

Due to the rapid increase in wind development projects in the Northeast, Wildlife Biologists and Natural Resource Managers are expressing their growing concerns regarding large scale development and its impacts to sensitive habitat and the wildlife that inhabit these areas.

We scale projects protecting critical eco-regions around the world and connecting often isolated islands of habitat to restore threatened wildlife populations.

Improving Habitat With Art «It was great to have artists this year that understood the importance of using only natural materials and techniques that would not harm the environment of the wetlands nature preserve and help to improve the habitat for the wildlife,» Allen wrote on the project's blog.

So I was excited to read a story in The Guardian about Steart Marshes, a # 20m project to create a 250 - hectare salt marsh as a form of both natural flood defense and much - needed wildlife habitat too.

In addition to CO2 sequestration, the environmental benefits of these projects in terms of clean air, pure water and improved wildlife habitat are substantial and measurable.

Plutonic Power's run - of - river projects have been located on streams with natural waterfalls that act as barriers for fish, thus greatly minimizing negative impacts on fish and wildlife habitat.