There is need to avoid the militarisation of the Arctic and also the respect for international law in the Arctic is essential". MEPs debate tonight a draft report calling for better protection of the Artic's unique and vulnerable ecosystem, including a ban on Arctic oil and gas extraction.
MEPs are set to say that the Arctic should remain a low-tension area, advocate protecting its vulnerable ecosystem, and call for a ban on Arctic oil and gas extraction.
The Tropical Montane Cloud Forest (TMCF) is a hydrologically unique and highly vulnerable ecosystem to changes in land-use and climate.
In March Parliament called for better protection of the Arctic's unique and vulnerable ecosystem, including a ban on Arctic oil and gas extraction.
Aesthetic values, such as the visibility of the Milky Way, could be also considered a vulnerable cultural ecosystem service [23].
Overgrazing (by cattle, goats, sheep, camels, horses), clearing of land for agriculture and over-cutting of trees and shrubs in this vulnerable ecosystem have resulted in an increasingly severe land degradation and desertification.
Patrick French could be found finding reasons to admire VS Naipaul despite the horrifying behaviour his biography uncovered, and Tahmima Anam was reading from new work considering Bangladesh's acutely vulnerable ecosystem.
We create land use and land cover (LULC) maps to estimate ES and biodiversity, and expert opinion to determine highly vulnerable ecosystem areas to major stressors in Shanghai (known as ecologically fragile areas).
This is linked with the integration of climate change consideration with development planning and implementation which indicates the continuation, adaption and innovation of essential changes especially in those countries which have vulnerable ecosystem management due to climate change.
This disaster has destroyed not just the area's vulnerable ecosystem, but has also ruined peoples' homes and ways of life -- not to mention threaten the health of thousands.
