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habitat

the place where something or someone lives. In ENVIRONMENTAL LAW the focus of European Union and UK legislation affecting conduct in relation to certain habitats. The EU Habitats Directive requires the establishment of a series of high-quality Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) across Europe that will make a significant contribution to conserving the habitat types and species identified in Annexes I and II of the Directive. It has been held that the Directive extends UK obligations beyond the 12-mile limit to the UK continental shelf

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It said: 'The secretary shall designate critical habitats outside protected areas under Republic Act 7586, where threatened species are found.

Establishing strict protection zones for threatened wildlife

He said that there was a need to review the existing scenario of wildlife diversity in the Province including species diversity, habitat diversity, endemic species and threatened species.

Punjab Wildlife Policy and Action plan being chalked out

Vegetative structure of selected habitats in Salt Range: Forty three plants species were recorded from habitats of Grey francolin in study area including nine trees, six shrubs, sixteen herbs, nine grasses and three agricultural crops.

HABITAT PREFERENCE OF GREY FRANCOLIN (FRANCOLINUS PONDICERIANUS) IN SALT RANGE, PUNJAB

But as more jaguars seek out fewer healthy habitats, the jaguar population decreases.

Habitat hunt: what happens when jaguar homes are scarce?

Overall, some 13% of the evaluations of regional habitats and 27% of regional species were reported as "unknown".

NATURE : EU EXEC ISSUES WARNING OVER VULNERABLE SPECIES AND HABITATS

We have shown how the CoRT thinking skills helped a teacher provide needed scaffolding for an open-ended science problem on bird habitats. Not only was the teacher new to problem-based learning, but this was also her first time using the CoRT thinking skills.

CoRT thinking skills guide PBL science

In 1993, we began stringent training restrictions in warbler and vireo habitat during the breeding season that affected over 29 percent of the installation.

Of tanks and birds

Monica Vidal, an associate broker with Citi Habitats since January 2004, has been promoted to sales manager of the firm's Midtown East office.

Citi Habitats

Disappearing forests create fragmented habitats, leading chimps and gorillas to live in tighter quarters.

Africa's vanishing apes: these forest-dwelling animals are losing their land--and their lives

Three habitats (SAG, SAV, and NVSB) were sampled in Pt.

A comparative evaluation of the habitat value of shellfish aquaculture gear, submerged aquatic vegetation and a non-vegetated seabed

That was eight years ago when his nonprofit group La Cruz Habitat Preservation Project was just getting off the ground.

A mission for monarchs: masses of autumn-colored monarchs cluster together as they overwinter in Mexico. Depletion of the forest there has many concerned for the butterfly's future

Stephanie Stowell, director of the National Wildlife Federation's Schoolyard Habitats program, says she's seen everything from a 35-acre space in a schoolyard with natural forest down to 3x5 foot window boxes in downtown Detroit.

Second nature: when districts get in the habit of encouraging schoolyard habitats, children may get their hands dirty--but their minds will grow